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Old 04-08-2007, 05:03 PM
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Google camo...that brown is way to dark needs to be more tan, unless you add a third color.

Bondo it one of the best painters out there, he wasn't disrespecting anything he's offering advice from the experience he has attained. It's constructive critiscism. He could have easily said "That paint job sucks" but instead he went out of his way to tell you what was good and bad about your tut and what you could do to make it better.

Not only that (and im NOT an expert painter) but your camo looks sloppy. Take a look at military aircraft and military clothing...now one could argue there's no set color pattern for camo and that's fine, however; there's no overspray from one color to another...there's no fading...the boundaries between the colored shapes are clean and neat, they don't fade into one another if you will.

Here's some examples:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-117-camo.jpg

This is how two tone camo should look...very little contrast.
http://digilander.libero.it/lockon/i...omac_small.jpg

Notice how the shapes dont fade...they have solid very neat and organized boundaries. Now the shaped and pattern differ...but the boundaries between the colors don't bleed or fade into each other.

Lastly, your thread title is how to lay QUALITY camo paintjob...not sanding the body before hand is NOT quality...sorry...removing headlight and taillight lenses is NOT quality. We're just trying to help so my advice would be to take the advice.
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