Tiger Stripes

[Mike Phillips]

Tiger Stripes


This is not a slam on my buddy Rick at all because I admire people that are do-it-yourselfers...

Plus, painting is a learned art. That said, these are Tiger Stripes from how he held the spray gun when spraying a metallic paint job. The lines are under the clear so there's nothing that can be done to remove them except to repaint.

Tiger Stripes





This street rod came to in need a little help and left looking much, much better...

Pictures + Video of 1932 Ford Highboy Extreme Makeover

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There has been articles and stories how to avoid this for years. Candies, Pearls and Metallics are some of the toughest things too spray. Dependant on storke, overlap, spray pattern, and proper air pressure. Mike you could write another book on how to avoid the striping. Still a cool car, looks more oriented towards "Pro Street Go" and not so much "Pro Show"

[Setec Astronomy]

I think they are kind of cool--he should tell people he did it on purpose and they will be impressed with his technique!

[davidc]

When I was painting vehicles on the last color coat the color would be reduced 10:1 so the metallic would fan out and mix/cover the previous coats which were striped. You just needed to be very careful not to create runs but being reduced as much as it was the gun was held a lot further from the body.

Dave

[DaveT435]

So after reading this it seems to me if I were to improperly compound or polish my tint coat I could end up with these...right??

[Setec Astronomy]

So after reading this it seems to me if I were to improperly compound or polish my tint coat I could end up with these...right??

I don't think so.

[DaveT435]

I don't think so.

You don't think if I had one spot with a deeper scratch and had to take more of the tint coat off it would lighten that spot?? That tint coat is a pretty dark shade of red.

I don't know...but definitely something I want to know for sure...

[Setec Astronomy]

How can you possibly know what the color of the tintcoat is when it's sitting on top of the basecoat? Did you take it off and hold it up and look at it?

The car Mike pictured has variation in the metal flake layout...you don't have that or you would have seen it already.

[DaveT435]

How can you possibly know what the color of the tintcoat is when it's sitting on top of the basecoat? Did you take it off and hold it up and look at it?

The car Mike pictured has variation in the metal flake layout...you don't have that or you would have seen it already.

Clean a pad with a white towel it shows the exact color.

[Setec Astronomy]

Clean a pad with a white towel it shows the exact color.

I guess you'd better stop polishing it, then. How would a tintcoat behave any differently with tiger-striping than a regular clearcoat? If I locally thin my clear I will change the appearance of it, also.

I have never read on this forum or any other about any dangers of polishing tintcoat, in terms of causing uneven appearance.