How to Custom Paint Your Car: Shop Setup, Choosing Basecoats, Colors and Clearcoats, more...

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Everyone personalizes their vehicle in one way or another, and custom painting is one of the best ways to make your car stand out. It's a skill that comes with practice, ingenuity, and knowing the right products and tools to use.

Whether you're flaming a hot rod, putting skulls on the hood of a classic lowrider, or simply coating your automobile in a shiny pearl or candy, this book will walk you through every step of the process.

Step-by-step, learn how to set up your workshop, choose your tools, and prep your car. Then, from the simple to the extraordinary, start working with custom colors, flames, metallics, marbles, custom graphics, and pinstriping.

Author JoAnn Bortles owns and operates Crazy Horse Painting, a custom paint shop in North Caroline. An award-winning painter, Bortles shares her lifetime of experience to make the process accessible to painters at every level. With over 300 color photos demonstrating top professional techniques, How to Custom Paint Your Car is the one book every aspiring painter should read first.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | Foreword | Introduction

CHAPTER 1: The Basics and Other "Boring" Stuff
The rules | Equipment | Safety | Beware of too thick paint | Surface preparation | Prepping fiberglass and plastic parts | One last thing about body prep

CHAPTER 2: The Harsh Realities of Painting Custom Base Coats
The two-gun solution | Choosing colors | Pearl colors | Candy colors

CHAPTER 3: Getting Flaky with Flake Paint

CHAPTER 4: Marblized Base Coat Painting and Color Fades
Easy one-layer marblizing | Multilayer marblizing | The killer marblizing effect | Color fades

CHAPTER 5: Airbrushes and Other Forms of Torture
The essential equipment | Stencil and mask materials | Finding materials and equipment | Setting up your workspace | Lighting | Airbrushes | Airbrush maintenance | Paint for airbrushing | Safety | Reference library and ideas | Fabrication photos | Prepaint drawings | Making sides match | Artwork matching and reversing: another trick | Reworking artwork | Miscellaneous design and layout hints | Mixed bag of tricks

CHAPTER 6: Low-Tech Ways to Design Your Paint
Drawing designs by hand | Sketching by computer

CHAPTER 7: Painting Realistic Flames and Fun with Fiberglass Bodies

CHAPTER 8: Metal Effect Tribal Graphics and Using Spray Mask

CHAPTER 9: Ghost Flames and Silver Leaf Flames
Ghost flames | Almost-ghost,multi-layer flames | Traditional flames using silver leaf | Multi-layered airbrushed flames | Miscellaneous flame "tips"

CHAPTER 10: Evil Graphics on a Ford Explorer

CHAPTER 11: Painting Skulls

CHAPTER 12: Painting a Pinup Girl
A few other murals

CHAPTER 13: Serious Fun with Pinstriping
Equipment | Striping basics | Striping graphics | Slash striping | Final finishing and clean up | A few more examples of striping

CHAPTER 14: Clear Coating, the Last Paint Step
Matte finish clears | If clear coating over artwork | Finish clear coats | Buffing | Care and upkeep of your custom paint

CHAPTER 15: Troubleshooting
Color matching for repairs | Repairs | Color match | Effect and cause | Crazing or cracking | Wrinkling | Runs and sags | Bubbles in clear | Small bumpy bubbles | Itty, bitty bubbles | Strange marks under clear coats | Pulling up tape and paint comes with it | Dripped or spilled paint on a freshly airbrushed surface | Airbrush problems

How to Custom Paint Your Car: Shop Setup, Choosing Basecoats, Colors and Clearcoats, more...