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Originally Posted by rspears

I thought that the "rule" was to have the panels in the orientation they sit on the car, like you've shown your fenders? That is, door panels near vertical as opposed to laying flat. Not sure where that came from, but pretty sure I'm not making it up. I'd be interested in comments.

Roger, I've read that somewhere, too, especially if you're using any kind of metallic paint and you want to paint the parts disassembled from the car. It probably wouldn't make that much difference if using a solid color paint.

Originally Posted by randyr

Roger, I've read that somewhere, too, especially if you're using any kind of metallic paint and you want to paint the parts disassembled from the car. It probably wouldn't make that much difference if using a solid color paint.

I saw that on American hotrod when Charlie was still painting for Boyd...

Originally Posted by rspears

I thought that the "rule" was to have the panels in the orientation they sit on the car, like you've shown your fenders? That is, door panels near vertical as opposed to laying flat. Not sure where that came from, but pretty sure I'm not making it up. I'd be interested in comments.

Sounds like a subject for 'Mythbusters' to me.

Now - think about that - regardless of paint type. The hood, roof, trunk lid are horizontal or mostly so. Whatever color it's painted, all parts need to match. If the paint is applied correctly, panel orientation should NOT make a bit of difference or you would see it in the sun. Yeah, Charlie Hutton is a master car painter but to me there are personal "superstitions" if you will, such as no green cars and numbered 13 or no peanuts sold or that special' pair of underwear drawers you wore when you won your first prize, etc.

As far as painting my fenders - or any other part my photo shows, orientation was ease of paint application - no other reason (my '31, it has pearl in the bc)

That was only meant for metalic paints....and or pearls.

In my 45 + years of painting experiance, I've done it both ways, and I'll tell ya this -
Paint parts as they hang on the car !!!!!!!!
Solid or metallic/pearl coat.
Think about this- Ya shoot the body, then ya shoot the door laying flat., go to assemble and the flow on the door will not match the body side.
You'll have urethane wave in the body more so than the door.
But what do I know, I've probably painted more cars than 50 of ya put together !!!
Hang the parts Roger

Originally Posted by DA34GUY

In my 45 + years of painting experiance, I've done it both ways, and I'll tell ya this -
Paint parts as they hang on the car !!!!!!!!
Solid or metallic/pearl coat.
Think about this- Ya shoot the body, then ya shoot the door laying flat., go to assemble and the flow on the door will not match the body side.
You'll have urethane wave in the body more so than the door.
But what do I know, I've probably painted more cars than 50 of ya put together !!!
Hang the parts Roger

It may have been talking to Don where I got the advice to put the doors on a rack hanging vertical, but it may also have been the guy at my local paint store, who's also been very helpful "educating" me. My plan has been to build a couple of rolling racks for the doors, and another for the trunk, and I can see the logic of the flow of the paint. I also see that it might be easier to shoot them laying flat, but I'll stick with the plan for this one. Can't hurt, other than being a bit more susceptible to sags & runs.

Originally Posted by DA34GUY

But what do I know, I've probably painted more cars than 50 of ya put together !!!
Hang the parts Roger

I hope you didn't hurt your arm!!!

I've kept plugging away on getting the spray space in better shape for shooting the body. Previously I had four sheets of visqueen clear plastic overlapped in a curtain that was minimally OK to segregate the front of the barn for painting. With the "folding wall" I still needed to close in the roof, spanning from the structural truss that I had covered with plastic earlier. My initial thought was to just use the curtain, but the more I looked at it the less I liked that idea.

As I looked at the span it was apparent that a panel 30' long was not going to work. But then looking at the need to open the wall partially to move things into and out of the spray area led me to three panels, nominal 10' each, and that's what I did. Each of the roof panels is hinged at the truss and can be raised about two feet to allow the wall to fold into the outer wall. The center panel raised will allow the two center wall sections to fold, giving me a 10'wide access way back & forth. I still need to secure some "fillers" at the wall ends against the barn siding to block air flow, and to get the pulleys in place to raise each of the three shed roof panels, but it's nearly there!!

View from inside the booth:
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View from the shop side, looking to the booth:
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View from inside, showing the truss closed off from the rest of the barn:
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Other than sealing some gaps I need to expend my 220V circuit up to the booth area to power the furnace blower, and mount the blower to a filler panel that fits beneath the rolling doors. I also have three or four florescent fixtures that I may hang on the walls for more light. Then it's clean, clean, clean using the pressure washer to blow away cobwebs and dust bunnies; do some final rough up sanding on the passenger side, then get ready to shoot a couple of coats of primer.

May get this thing done despite myself

You're getting pretty fancy there, Roger!!!! Looks good, should work out quite well!

Nice Roger! Very NICE! Only thing I would say is get plenty of lighting!!!

Nice, indeed! I wish I had a space like that in which to work.

44 days til the BBQ Roger.

I love the way that thing looks!

Originally Posted by DA34GUY

44 days til the BBQ Roger.

I knew I'd get a response like that from you, Don. Yeah, I've allowed myself to get diverted, but now it's nearly time to shoot some primer and do a little minor fill work.

Keep on plugging Roger! When your done, we'll bring our paint work to you!