My Lincoln

Looks good mate, impressive work

Bought some high build primer from Jawel paints on ebay,it was pretty thin and didn't even hide any of the sanding marks.Proper crap paint,no wonder it was cheap.£33 for 4 litre plus 1 litre of hardener.Took 1200 mil to cover car.




So went to Autopaint Bolton and bought two litres of black primer,£30 including hardener.Put one coat on.took 600 mil to cover car and it hides almost all of the sanding marks with just the one coat.



I guess i now know not to buy paint off ebay.

Like the value emulsion takes 20 coats .... Get good paint and its easier in the long run. Looking good. Kev are you watching .... Lol

thirdgen wrote:Like the value emulsion takes 20 coats .... Get good paint  and its easier in the long run.  Looking good. Kev are you watching .... Lol

yes I am watching paul but only just seen the post . how is the Lincoln looking

Transam Kev wrote:

thirdgen wrote:Like the value emulsion takes 20 coats .... Get good paint  and its easier in the long run.  Looking good. Kev are you watching .... Lol

yes I am watching paul but only just seen the post . how is the Lincoln looking  

It looks great in black with white top,i think so anyway but then i knew what it would look like as the first one i ever saw in the UK was that colour.It was 20 odd years ago and that was the car that made me want a mkiv.
The paint job itself came out really crap,my prep wasn't good enough.I had to scrape all the top coat off and doing that i managed to take bits of the primer off underneath.So there were patches that were bare metal and i just kept sanding until it looked smooth around those areas.I primered and it looked good but when i put the colour on you could see all the waviness underneath were i had gone to bare metal in places.Plan now is to do it again but go to bare metal doing one panel at a time.You can see from the pic that bonnet didn't come out too well.

We went down to Weymouth for a mid week break in july.While we was down there we went out to Poole,only car park i could find in the centre that wasn't short stay was a multi storey one,not good with a 19 foot long car.

Bandit wrote:

Transam Kev wrote:

thirdgen wrote:Like the value emulsion takes 20 coats .... Get good paint  and its easier in the long run.  Looking good. Kev are you watching .... Lol

yes I am watching paul but only just seen the post . how is the Lincoln looking  

It looks great in black with white top,i think so anyway but then i knew what it would look like as the first one i ever saw in the UK was that colour.It was 20 odd years ago and that was the car that made me want a mkiv.
The paint job itself came out really crap,my prep wasn't good enough.I had to scrape all the top coat off and doing that i managed to take bits of the primer off underneath.So there were patches that were bare metal and i just kept sanding until it looked smooth around those areas.I primered and it looked good but when i put the colour on you could see all the waviness underneath were i had gone to bare metal in places.Plan now is to do it again but go to bare metal doing one panel at a time.You can see from the pic that bonnet didn't come out too well.

does look nice black paint don't look bad in pics as a shine