Metallic touch up paint

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I have a couple of spots on my newer paint that needs touch up paint. Its '04 nissan Altima silver metallic, KY1. Getting some paint and artist brush to try and repair. The largest spot is on the hood so I'm leary. I've allready wet-sanded it and used touch up primer/filler, going to put the touch-up clear on it also then wet sand w/ 2000 grit.



Anything else that I need to know?
 
It's very hard to get metallic silvers to match. The flakes won't lay properly. Look good from some angles and not others. Probably still better than without.
 
Wht both the others said :xyxthumbs



Heh heh, the touchups I did on the S8 look great from the one angle nobody will ever see...and they look *awful* from normal viewing angles :o Good luck with that...



My one painter is *VERY* good at touching up stuff like this, but then he has decades of experience. Maybe you'll stumble across somebody like him. Otherwise, just accept that touchups show on metallic paints.



I'd wetsand with 3000. Much easier to polish out the marks. I highly recommend the Meguiar's Unigrit paper (much better IME than 3M).
 
Accumulator said:
Wht both the others said :xyxthumbs



Heh heh, the touchups I did on the S8 look great from the one angle nobody will ever see...and they look *awful* from normal viewing angles :o Good luck with that...



My one painter is *VERY* good at touching up stuff like this, but then he has decades of experience. Maybe you'll stumble across somebody like him. Otherwise, just accept that touchups show on metallic paints.



I'd wetsand with 3000. Much easier to polish out the marks. I highly recommend the Meguiar's Unigrit paper (much better IME than 3M).
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what did your painter touch it up with? an airbrush?
 
Reflectionz said:
what did your painter touch it up with? an airbrush?
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I have spots that another painter did that way, but they were bigger areas than I believe we're discussing here. Almost big enough to just use a touch-up/spot-in gun.



The guy I was referring to, who did such a wonderful job on the Jag's hood, used a brush. Utterly amazed me...But note that this was single stage metallic lacquer, which might make it a whole 'nother ballgame.
 
I would get the touch up kit from auto geek.



Put in the metallic paint, add CC, wipe off with their "stuff".
 
Heh heh, thought of this thread this morning as I'm currently redoing a touchup on the Yukon's quarter panel...the dealer left a huge blob of touchup paint- too much paint... after the detail (by ebpcivicsi) there was too *little* paint, leaving a recess that caught/retained LSP residue. I'm just building the paint back up to a *little* higher than the factory finish so it doesn't catch wax.



But no, I'm not gonna try to make it perfect via Langka/wetsanding- I'm making a bad problem better and then I'll just live with it. After the nice jobebpcivicsi did polishing it, I'm not gonna redo even that one panel, and he warned me that the clear in that area can't take much more work anyhow.



IMO it's better to have too much paint (a mild "blob") than too little, if only so there isn't a crevice that'll collect LSP.
 
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