Front inner fender washer finish

[BCreekDave]

This is a part of the restorers conundrum. Many parts like A-arms were dipped with runs and drips. Do you reproduce that with a vat of paint or do you spray with the masked off areas where they hung the parts through the dipping process but then not get the runs and drips? Part of being "over restored" I suppose.

[firstgenaddict]

Originally Posted by BCreekDave

This is a part of the restorers conundrum. Many parts like A-arms were dipped with runs and drips. Do you reproduce that with a vat of paint or do you spray with the masked off areas where they hung the parts through the dipping process but then not get the runs and drips? Part of being "over restored" I suppose.

I put the thinned paint into an old syrup bottle with the small opening and then use it to "pour syrup on the a-arm" over a tray then recycle to paint -filtering it when I pour it back into the syrup bottle.

[Kurt S]

Originally Posted by BCreekDave

This is a part of the restorers conundrum. Many parts like A-arms were dipped with runs and drips. Do you reproduce that with a vat of paint or do you spray with the masked off areas where they hung the parts through the dipping process but then not get the runs and drips? Part of being "over restored" I suppose.

They floated the paint on water. Pretty easy to duplicate....

[BCreekDave]

Originally Posted by Kurt S

They floated the paint on water. Pretty easy to duplicate....

Yes, with oil based lacquers and enamels. Don't try with water based paints!

But really reproducing the methods the factories used is functionally impossible. Anyone care to reproduce the "red river" that Norwood used to apply the red oxide primer base?
But trying to do it best is part of the fun, correct?