Some custom painting I did

[DRAG-ULA]

This is a small Volkswagon Beetle hood I did some custom paint on. It will be up for the charity auction at the Panel Jam at AutoRama this spring. I got some cool purple flake, and I had some iridescent gold left over from when I did the roof of my Imperial. I dig the purple so much I'm stripping my roof and re doing it in this though. Here's some pics of the panel.

Purple paint

Scuffed, cleared and flaked

A mountain of clear to bury the flakes

Sanded the clear smooth and taped up for the next step

Gold paint

Gold flakes in the clear

A little pinstriping

 

[DRAG-ULA]

Finished product!!

 

[Stika Pimp]

pimpy

 

[sardeanie]

I am a metal flake junky! I dig it the most! Nice!

 

[SuperCoupeMatt]

That looks awesome, Good work!

 

[Falcon64]

Wow that looks bad ass!! How many coats of clear does it take to cover all that flake??

 

[orangejuiced86]

This is Grade A 100% pure Columbian cocaine, ladies and gentlemen. Disco shit. Pure as the driven snow!

 

[Krazybones]

slow and loooooow

 

[Speedy]

Nice work John

 

[consciousthirteen]

Looks good. Some University of Washington grad would take that in a heartbeat. Especially since it's a bug hood.

 

[black88coupe]

VERY cool. Panel Jam- hell yeah!!!!

 

[DRAG-ULA]

Wow that looks bad ass!! How many coats of clear does it take to cover all that flake??

Thanks! I had to put 5 wet coats to bury the flake and have enough on there to sand flat. It takes a long time, you gotta have a longer flash time between coats when piling it on like that.

 

[DRAG-ULA]

VERY cool. Panel Jam- hell yeah!!!!

It's fun. I'm gonna try and do a few more panels, and I might be down there doing some striping too.

 

[1BAD89SC]

gonna graduate to 80's boats???? lol just messin with ya....... looks killer man!!!

 

[dline]

good work like always!

 

[Golden]

I would love to build a baja beetle with bright blue medium flake paint.





Nice work!

 

[derbydad276]

dammit you were supposed to call me when you did this so i could watch

 

[DRAG-ULA]

dammit you were supposed to call me when you did this so i could watch

Ah shit man, I forgot. I'm sorry. I have another small project coming up after the holiday season.

 

[svtserpent]

Disco! So much talent on motown, sadly I have none.





This is Grade A 100% pure Columbian cocaine, ladies and gentlemen. Disco shit. Pure as the driven snow!