Full Re-spray - How best to get around car?

[Lee Patterson]

So I have done a bit of spraying in my time and done a full respray before which turned out okay after a lot of flatting and polishing! I am attempting it again and want to now the best way to go about it. last time I did one it was respray of the existing colour to freshen it up so I did not bother going in the door shuts and tailgate shuts. This time I need to do that as although I am doing black on black it is a different black!
So I am already planning to do the front wings and bumpers off the car so I just need to do the main body, boot and doors.
What I am wondering is should I spray in all the shut areas before and then mask them out with that foam door shut tape and do the main respray as a second operation. doing it that way I would intend to flat back any overspray on the main body first so as not to leave any shadow or witness. Alternative I could mask the door and tailgate and leave them open and do all in the shuts and main body at once. Probably the boot as well. and then do the doors after on their own. The only reason I say to do the doors after is for space to move around safely without knocking an airline or something onto a fresh paint!

Asides that I was going to spray the rear end which main gets covered by the bumper first, then go onto the roof and spray from one side to the middle (if I cannot work front to back), Jump around the other side of the car and then do the rest of the roof from middle out. Then back to the first side and go down the rear pillar and do the rear quarter and door shut. then back to the second side and do the same? I can see a potential issue where I might get a line starting the rear pillars after finishing the roof?

So do I just start at the back and then work up the side of the car from the sill and into the rear quarter then up to the roof and then over and back down instead?

Would appreciate any advice.

Thank you
Lee

 

[pedrobedro]

You do what makes sense to you. If you could remove the doors, bonnet and tailgate take the seals off and mask the holes with big sheets of cardboard and get some crates and planks to make reaching the roof easier. I do roof first then front, down one side across the back and back up the other side. Move the car out then paint the other bits later. You could do your shuts and let them dry then shut the doors and paint the rest after. I'm no professional but have painted a few of my own cars, I always used to buy write offs and put them back on the road for my own use when I was younger.

 

[justin]

I think that this explains a bit about what you want to know.

 

[Lee Patterson]

Thanks chaps.. Going to look into removal of tailgate a bit more and watch that vid too.

 

[Lee Patterson]

The video is pretty helpful. Shame it didn't go into spraying of shuts. Also I didn't get why after doing the roof he says to go from the bottom of each side up? I would imagine it would be better to work from the top down? So you are picking up the wet roof edge? Any one shed any light on that?