here are some pictures of me and my friends work idk nothen to great












let me know what you think

also note that we are in the middle of worken on the hoods there is no clear on the hoods in those pictures

Nice work.

how much to paint my car in the brightest red they make with clear.

What kind of vehicle is that going on? That looks like Mopar strobes going down the fender.

Any insurance policy? I don't see any type of vapor masks. Anyways, that looks fun as hell!

Looks like a Dodge Charger Daytona Edition rear 1/4 panel...

red is the most expensive color ... it is the hardest to match ... and hardest to fade. you dont "have" to have a mask you are suposto have a mask. clear is what gets to you it attacks your lungs but i love to paint !!!! they will look so much better in clear the stripes come from a 1970 AAR Cuda'

im pretty sure that is a front fender, right is that how it goes, fenders up front and 1/4 panels in the rear, that looks like a fender to me, not a 1/4 panels,

they are all honda fenders and hoods because they were donated

Hah, I called the strobes origins though.

I'm going to slap a set on my Stratus eventually. A couple of guys have done it already and it looks good yet gives nice hints to the lineage of the brand.

once we clear the hoods we are going to start and try airbrushing on some of the hood we are clearing then airbrushing because if we mess up we can wet sand and not get into the bace color

painting is lots of work but its also very gratifying when its done...nice job so far...love the base color under the strobe stripe on that fender.

Nice work, I thought those were 'Cuda stripes on there...now get some masks on; painting is fun but can be brutal on the lungs!

sanding fiberglass and body filler is just as bad lol most of the time we have masks but no one was in the booth and i wanted to get in there quickly and get it painted before someone comes in and gets dust everywhere

Dude, is that a Punisher skull in the first picture?

yes it is why??

where are u taking classes at? I'm just starting my second year at a junior college, its alright...I've been working at a body shop for two months now. I absolutely love it! its so much fun... I'll have to post up some pics of flames and other stuff i've painted/airbrushed.

~Stauffie

im going to school at hawkeye community college in waterloo iowa and i work at iowa auto rebuilders i havent really done much there ... but i am thinking about selling my sub and amp and cd player maybe and getting my self an airbrush i love all of it

I want to see the complete paintjob. I'm a big Punisher fan.

ok ill make shure i get some pictures of the finished hood we are going do do akulls in some of the corners and such with an airbrush i know it will turn out good im just afraid of my hood the one with the orange and the black because there is a small spot were the bace color got cut with an razor blade, so i have to go back and i am going to airbrush something over that area i dont know what i am going to do yet ... also anyone have any color ideas for how i can pinstripe those lines because i have limited color choices and i was wondering what color would look best with the pearl orange

anyone know any color choices??

yes i agree get the charcoal masks on, when i was in school for autobody one of my instructors had a sensitivity to the DP epoxy primer, he sprayed it for so long without using a mask that now if he even get a wiff of it it will make him dizzy and pass out, nice work by the way, if you can believe this the fenders we took a steel bar to to dent and then fix with LEAD, first then bondo and such were factory GM 69 chevelle fenders

i would love to know how to do lead work but now everything is filled with body putty

true story about the body putty...lol its eithe bondo or fiberglass it seems like. Right now at work i'm in the process of doing a resto on a 91 toyota camry(i have no clue why)but i had to weld in patch panels and fiberglass and now i'm using body putty to get it nice and smooth...and thats just for the quarter panels...lol I can't wait till i learn how to do lead work...BTW i haven't gotten my moms camera to upload my pics of all the stuff i've painted yet...still work on that...hopefully i'll be able to soon...

~Stauffie

stauffie are u in autobody also ?? hey i got my hood done today with the colors and clear coat now i just have to get my brush and im gonna start doing some pinstripe!!!

yea i'm in my second year at a junior college program, its alright. It took me forever to find a job in an actual shop but i finally did and i love it...

~stauffie

yes i found a job in a shop the only thing i dont like is how they are all about ##'s and not about the quality of the work ... they like to use primer as body filler which isnt good well not in my book anyways and the think i hate is cleaning the 2 paint booths and all of the prep stations .. that sucks lol

here is pics. of some stuff i've done...tell me what yall think...

~Stauffie


-mailbox that i painted for class...its a pearl pink with "true fire" and some skulls...


-closer pic of the skulls...


-welding helmet i painted...


-front view, its suppose to look like rips/tears of the very front...


-other side...


-my first attempt EVER at "true fire"...

thats good, i'd love to get into that so i could paint my own stuff

wow ... looks good ... better than i can do lol hopefuly soon i will be able to get that good .... (fyi i have a rocford p2 12", box amp and alpine headunit for sale if anyone is intrested ) im selling my cdplayer and stuff so i can get a airbrush kit ... im really big into learning how to airbrush and pinstripe my hood is finished and in my tiny ass apartment room, i got my brush 2day but it looks 2small so i am going to order some more and then get some 1shot paint and i am going to pinstripe my hood . as soon as i get a airbrush i will be sitten in my apartment messing with everything i can .... also i am going to do some toilet seats real soon for pratice because they are cheep and if they turn out good you can actualy use them for something lol but

way to go your stuff looks real good i like the mailbox lol

lol thanks...you should do a mailbox...i paid ten bucks for mine...it had a dent i had to fix...but its kind cool....i'd think about trading you my airbrush for your sub/amp/HU but i think u'd be loosing to much...lol...plus i'm not positive i wanna get rid of it. BTW the shop i work at is really small...its just the owner, his wife(book-keeper), a main body guy, a main mechanic, a clean-up girl and me. Which i do anything from fixing dents and stuff to brake jobs and small mechanical stuff. they don't even have a real paint-booth, its just a seperate room and an exhuast fan. But they do do very good work. And nothing leaves if its not up to par with the boss...just an example the other day we did a 06 impala, cress in the front door and we painted/blended both passenger side doors...well after i'd scuff and buffed it and was about to send it to the cleanup girl, my boss noticed a hair and some dust in the paint, and we had to repaint it so i looked better...but i konw alot of shops around here woulda kicked that car out justlike it was. I really like where i work. sorry for the long post...lol

~Stauffie

Fire looks pretty good! I would say a little less on the circles, that would give it more of a fluid natural look. Other wise, its way better than I could perform, that is why I paid someone to paint the flames on my car. I am good at tapping and straight line stuff. Nothing in artistic forms.

soon i am going to get an iwata airbrush kit idk they are around 329 from a site i know and it comes with a bunch of stuff ... i wish i worked at a shop like yours. my buddy and me are tryen to get some cash 2geather so we can build a small paint booth he is a great painter !! him and i have some real good ideas on stuff and we love to work on it but its hard to find some small jobs that people want us do do .. esp without a paint booth at the moment. so hopefuly after college i am gonna try to get some cash 2geather and start a small busness and i can tell you this ... its gonna be about quality of the work .. it makes me sick sometimes to see at my job how they send stuff out of the door ... i think umfan knows what im talken about when he got his car back after his wreck lol

Word of Mouth, best business. That is what runs my dads Renovation and Handy man business.

what we plan on doing is a restoration shop ... because i love old cars

yea...i think my true fire looks like honeycomb in the middle...lol its gay but it still kinda looks cool. I'd love to open up my own shop someday, but i don't really see that happening for a while...after i get my own place i'd like to do side jobs and what not out of my garage(that would be after getting my own place). But yea at my shop they do collision and old cars...right now my boss is redoing a 56 covette...appraised at $190,000!!!! its sweet...

~Stauffie

wow... i wish i could work on some cars like that

here is a picture of my hood and stuff that ive done

does anyone have any ideas of what color pinstriping would look good ??

i'd go green, but i'm just a fan of green. lol