spat painting epic fail

Was bored this morning so decided to get my spats down from the loft and paint them to see how close i could get the match as 199 silver is apparently hard to match well..........

Primer on all fine, few layers of paint all fine now i was doing a quick job and using the house fireplace to dry in between coats (very ghetto i know)

well the spat was lay on its side against a box drying and decided to fall over on the brick work and now i have a lovely scrape in the paint arghhh [sAD][/sAD] so im hanging up my blue peter things and quitting for today

Don't give up dude, these things are sent to test us. You'l get there even if it is next weekend

How was the colour match in the end?

the match is pretty good in my opinion with halfords rattle cans obv im no pro just like to do as much D.I.Y as possible so please dont be to harsh haha

Hey that doesn't look too bad, just looks slightly lighter i shade. Just make sure you re-do the whole spat and not repair/paint locally as that would be easily noticable. GL!

Edit: Removed due to lack of humour

And you have weird eye sight as there`s only 1 hand in the pic not 2, so my audi driving friend maybe a trip to spec savers is due for you but thanks for the pointless comment as the thread is clearly not about hands

Most peoples left and right hands are the same, I can see fine thanks

Was only having a laugh, sorry you got so upset

your hands are weird

forgive me for having no humour but can you point out the funny part of your post ?????????

or are you just plain retarded and to try make yourself not look stupid you`ve removed your comment

look, im not going to argue over this

I posted what I thought, you either think its funny or you dont

End of

i don`t see an argument in the thread i just asked a question witch you obviously can`t answer can you??

so instead of getting your post count up with pointless posts why don`t you try posting something useful

and as for 'end of' how old are you 10 now please do enjoy the rest of your day

You've done a good job there. Apart from letting it fall onto the brickwork..

i know to be honest i was suprised how it came out i thought i would have been miles of a match

Yeah the colour match looks pretty good, just a shame it fell. Will be easy re-done though bud

Are they genuine spats or FG fella. Also what brand paint are you using to do it.

there replica spats the fits fine obv when you take the black trim off lol the paint was halfords 199 silver or silver 1 in there book

im not keeping them as im going with ridox over fenders i just want to see how they look on for abit

what colour primer did you use ?

Darker primer will give you a darker finish as well fella

Pics of the fire place or it didn't happen..!!

This post was indeed humorous, and meant to be.

lol havard, the primer used was halfords grey primer

You can get great finishes with spray cans on small panels! keep at it, most people just do the primer, base and clear, but if you also wet sand, buff and polish most people will think its a booth/gun job, you look like you know how to prep etc so ill cut to the chase and say get a box to lay it down on, once theres heat around it it will dry, im guessing you had it faced towards the fire becuase of drying?

thats not really an epic fail, the colour match is good and the finish looks good, you just dropped it. just flat it back and do it again, almost there.

yeah it was lay against a box towards the fire stood up drying the front, i turned away to go to the car and....... flop its face down on the brickwork it was one of those moments when all you can do is cry haha to be fair i did it in less than a few hours and still got a decent finish before it happened.

It was more of a test really to see how well i could do it as i have my side skirts ect but there a bit bigger no doubt i could do them but ultimately ill never get them as good as a body shop

o and if any one wants a go on there own it takes almost a full 300ml can of primer, full can of 300ml paint although i feel a little more would have suited better maybe a 500ml can an then obv lacquer