Wild Paint Job - Swirl Removal - Cover of Trukin Magazine

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

Wild Paint Job - Swirl Removal - Cover of Trukin Magazine

Joe Fernandez has a sharp memory, he sent me this link on February 15th but it went into my Junk folder and I just now opened it...

This is a truck Richard Lin and I buffed out before it was used for the cover of Trukin Magazine. I have the magazine and even all the before and after pictures.

It's on eBay for sale right now. It has a very wild, custom paint job.

2004 Custom Nissan Titan

The paint was totally hacked up with sanding marks and swirls, I'll dig up the before and after pictures later. It was fun to buff out though...

 

[Finemess]

Awesome!!

 

[daveinsweethome]

i still have a sweet spot for show trucks. did it for ten years ourt in calif. finally got a cover in Street Trucks mag and a quick shot coming down california speedway behind a full gazzer in my other show truck. trouble is this one you did is just off the chart.

 

[SouthernStyles]

Aaron Iha (spelling)? did the suspension work on that truck it is amazing!!!

 

[SuperSport]

Love how it looks like two totally different trucks when looking at opposite sides.

 

[sullysdetailing]

NIce job Mike.

 

[Deep Gloss Auto Salon]

Wild paint job is right!

Mike, that job is a pretty cool "feather in your hat"!:xyxthumbs:

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

Here's some pictures from the original write-up posted on February 10th, 2006, hard to believe we buffed this truck out 6 years ago, seems like ti was just yesterday...

Check it out...

The Titan Richard and I buffed out is on this month's cover of Truckin Magazine.

This truck was filled with sanding marks and wool pad and compound swirls when we got to it. We worked it over pretty good with our rotary buffers and the hit it with the dual action polisher using the same techniques we show in our how-to DVD and it came out like very clear and glossy.

Before

After

Too bad we get no mention in the article. Sad thing about detailing, the detailer is the one who will make or break the painter's work yet the painter is the one who usually gets all the credit.

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

Wild paint job is right!

Mike, that job is a pretty cool "feather in your hat"! :xyxthumbs:

It was a fun truck to work on just because of the paint scheme making it look like two different trucks depending upon which side you were on.

Fact is most of the members on this forum, including yourself could have undone the damage inflicted into the paint just doing what you do best and that's using quality products with good technique and the human elements of care and passion.

 

[rwright]

Sad thing about detailing, the detailer is the one who will make or break the painter's work yet the painter is the one who usually gets all the credit.

That is a great quote! Excellent job as usual on the truck! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

That is a great quote! Excellent job as usual on the truck! Thanks for sharing.

When I first met Cory St. Clair he was absolutely frustrated with "Detailers" because he had nothing but bad experiences with them.

We talked and I mentioned to him that the painter could be the best paint in the world but it's the guy that does the sanding and buffing that will make or break the paint job.

We had never met before but hit it off pretty good the first time we met so he let me sand and buff the Joker Truck...

 

[rwright]

Wow! I really can't wait to attend your class at Detail Fest! :hungry:
Both trucks are just sick.

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

That is a great quote!

I re-wrote it for a website I own...


It's the person that does the wet-sanding, cutting and buffing that makes or breaks the paint job -Mike Phillips


The Painter is the person that has the knowledge, skill and talent to spray new paint onto your car and have it come out looking great. If the quality of the finish is acceptable with no further sanding or buffing, then the painter gets all the credit for the quality of the end result.

If the car is to be sanded and machine buffed, or perhaps just machine buffed, then the quality of the end result is now in the hands of the person doing the wetsanding, cutting and buffing (or just machine buffing), as they are the last person to exercise power and control over any process related to the end results. If the end results are good, then they get a portion of the credit. If the end result is bad, that is the paint is filled with swirls and scratches, then they get all the credit.

Another way of saying this is...

"It's the person that does the wet-sanding, cutting and buffing that makes or breaks the paint job"


Some painters do their own wetsanding, cutting and buffing, so in some cases the painter and the person doing the doing the wetsanding and buffing, (or just buffing), are the same person and they get ALL the credit whether it comes out show car quality or swirl city. If it comes out looking great then the other thing they get is that anyone in the know of how cars are painted and then polished, after seeing their results first hand, well this person raises their respect level for that person a few notches higher... whoever it might be...

And then... you got that going for you...



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