Due to the amount of orange peel in the finished black paint, I knew I was going to have a date with a bucket of water and some sandpaper. You have no idea until you try it how sucky of a job it is.
But trying to turn a negative into a positive, it gave me some artistic freedom to start adding some details to the paint.
I was going for a natural wear and tear look. Below is the drivers door, where the paint was worn down underneath the handle and around the door lock. Revealing the red oxide primer I shot prior to the white.
I envisioned years of grabbing the handle with out looking and trying to unlock doors in the dark and missing the targets and hitting the paint instead.
Next I did the rear doors, instead of going all the way to the primer, I tried to stop at the white, although severely thinned in some spots.
Dodge painted these cars all white first, then sprayed the black only in areas needed. That’s why you would see white first.
I tried hitting areas I thought would be touched a lot, like the front of the window pillar.
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Top of the window.
And towards the rear.
There will be a lot more of these little marks added here and there, but you get the general idea.
