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    Default Fresh new color of paint!

    Painted the hatch pearl white this weekend and made a home made paint booth.




























































































































    Last edited by GlennsEK; 06-06-2011 at 09:19 PM. Reason: Big Photos!!!

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    To be honest,i cant see shit,pictures are way to small.

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    good luck keeping that bitch clean lol

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    looks good to me homie

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    Quote Originally Posted by firby911 View Post
    To be honest,i cant see shit,pictures are way to small.
    x2 i reallly cant tell anything at all

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    im going to have upload them all individual i guess is there a while to get them all bigger i just uploaded with imageshack

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    Looking good bro

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    Quote Originally Posted by big mac View Post
    Looking good bro
    Thanks man, apparently my gf went to dinner with your gf in PCB this weekend,lol

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    i paint cars on the side and that is the most original paint booth i have ever seen lol. i guess you didnt have a problem with lighting. how did you get the fog out while spraying?

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    Fog meaning over spray ?

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    Yeah man haha pretty random lol. I was trying to think.who she was talking bout

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    Yeah . Crazy how ppl meet it weird how they have both have tcs

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    Hahah yeah. Thats crazy didnt know she has a tc also

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    Yeah she just has pink hids, soon I'm going get her exhaust and tint. Sadly it auto she doesn't know how to drive 5spd

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    Quote Originally Posted by GlennsEK View Post
    Fog meaning over spray ?
    yea the over spary, i consider over spray what sticks and fog the cloud that hovers over the car lol.

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    Lol I had one fan facing the opposite direction so it caught all the "fog" and and filter on it .

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    I hear ya man you jeed to teach her stick hahaha. Slamm it out my girls looks sick slammed

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    I want her to slam it so bad !!! Did you do they work on your girls car ? I haven't really messed with her car are scion difficult to work on? And I'm trying her to learn it , she doesn't really have any interest to learn .... I need to change her mind on that .

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    Yeah man ive done most the work and they are fairly easy. I put s tech springs on heres and its almost tucking tire. Ill get some pics tomorrow

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    Nice bro ! Look forward to seeing them

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    Looks good from what i can see. that paint booth is off the chain for a home made one. Please try to get the pics bigger i want to see more detail.
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    I'll make pic larger tomorrow , and the paint booth was 10' wide 18'long and 8' high
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    Looks good from what i can see. that paint booth is off the chain for a home made one. Please try to get the pics bigger i want to see more detail.

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    Big pictures are uploaded!!!! for all you people who said they can't see them!!!

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    Looks great , cant wait to see it put back together

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    so....its a pearl white?



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    Yes it kinda hard to tell in the pictures

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    it looks good but in some pics it seems to need more paint! and how many coats of clear did yal use!!?
    but for home made paint job looks really good

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    4 base and 3 clear

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    Yeah it's hard to show a pearl white car in direct light. My Supra is pearl white but it's hard to capture it in the light. And envus said it right gl on keeping it clean.

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    I could use a paint job, I got the supplies, you got the booth, lets make something beautiful

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    Just hit me up bro were figure something out

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    Uploaded with ImageShack.us

    finally product minus my rims

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    I wouldn't have painted the fencing in the grille, but other than that looks good
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    Yeah Im kinda regretting that but at least it easy to tKe off

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    Looks good. Nice paint booth.

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    Funny how the replies vary so much from IA to DSO. Props for doing it yourself.

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    Yeah huge difference from ia to dso, thanks bro

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    am i the only one that thinks the finished product looks rattlecanned? and whatever's going on with the rh 1/4 is driving me crazy. it looks like you took a lot of time to do it, i don't know why you didn't do some more body work?

    in for some fresh pics too.

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    ^^^ ur not alone, but I was just blamin it on the camera until I saw it in person or better pics.

    But deff some good work man! I like ur booth

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Clean View Post
    am i the only one that thinks the finished product looks rattlecanned? and whatever's going on with the rh 1/4 is driving me crazy. it looks like you took a lot of time to do it, i don't know why you didn't do some more body work?

    in for some fresh pics too.
    what part of the 1/4 panels? on what picture?

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