Nice choice of colour. Look forward to seeing it once the whole car is painted.

Bravo lads, keep up the fantastic work!

Good 1st attempt boys . At least most of the paint is actually on the car . 😀

Nice work guys, paintwork seems like one of those jobs that's easy to do but difficult to master. Good first effort, sure the next attempt will come up sweet 👌

I'd say you should sit and watch some videos on painting before going further, why miss so many dents in the doors? Get your filler in and use a block with 80 grit until the filler is smooth, if your not going over the filler with a fine 2 part stopper then give the panel a thin coat of matt black, now reblock using 180 or 320, the black will stay in the low spots so you can see when the panel is level, once your happy panel wipe the surface and apply a thin coat of etch primer, can be aerosol, only need a thin coat, this is really important on aluminium as it aids adhesion. Now go straight over the etch with 3 or 4 coats of your 2k high build primer, once dry give the panel a mist coat of satin black and block sand the primer with some 6 or 800 wet and dry or 400 dry disc on sander , yet again the black will show your highs and lows. If you rub through to the metal give the bare alloy a light coat of the etch before colour. Once your happy, panel wipe, blow off, tack rag the panel and apply your base coat, keep the first coat light, not too wet, then apply 3 to 4 coats, you can tack rag between coats once the paint has flashed off or even lightly sand out any dirt nibs with some 800 wet and dry, don't do this on the last colour coat though. Once happy, tack off and apply 2 to 3 coats of 2k clear, first coats can be not to wet, last coat wants to really flow out. I always go around panel edges first before the main face of the panel, leave a good 10 to 15 mins between coats on a good day, once it's dry you can sand any dirt nibs out with some 1200 wet and dry and machine polish with some G3. The colour you've picked will exaggerate ripples and dents, in general the lighter the colour the more you get away with, white hides a lot, black shows ripples. Work on your gun technique, paint edge to edge with 50% overlap, I prefair panels verticle as you'll get less crap landing in your work, start at the bottom of the panel and do edge to edge strokes watching the reflection to guage how wet the material is going on . Remember, paintwork is 90% prep, 5% aplication and 5% luck 👍

Not such an issue on Aluminium (due to corrosion), but you should prime the metal prior to filling. Glossyness, even with 2-pack paint, comes down to temperature and humidity. You applied the clear at dusk, when the temperature would be dropping rapidly during the cure time and humidity would be increasing in proportion. High gloss clearcoat needs warm and dry conditions (ideally 20-25 degrees). If you want to base coat and clear coat in one day, you should start early(ish - base needs some temperature to flash off nicely) on a nice day and get the clear down mid afternoon at the latest. Or base one day, and clear the next.

hey love the content, got a question. How do you guys know what to fix with your cars, like for the jeep how did you figure out what were the issues and the same for the defender, also how the hell did you get a defender for so cheap?!

loving this series lads! If you get a chance could u put the links to the compressor & guns into ur bio? just a little bit of advice - slower sweeps with the spray gun will give you a more even finish (letting go of the trigger when you've done a full pass over the door). Keep at it, you're doing really well!

What spray guns are you using. Thanks

Hi gents, do you have an Instagram I could follow? I've sprayed two defenders in a very similar manner to yourselves.