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[tazinnz]

as a car painter / panelbeater most of your cost is in the rubbing down and masking as we all hate it so we charge for it normally like wounded bulls you can save yourself some big dollars if you rub it down primer it then talk nicley to the painters and tell them what you want and the level then make a time take it in then mask it yourself and just get them to blow the top coat but dont skimp on the prep as it will show threw on the finish

[Bedfordcrazy]

It is getting exciting now, custom body work that i dreamed of for a decade has now been completed, and it looks just as i envisioned, so i am over the moon. I will be locking in three days at the end on this month to do the biggest of the jobs, if we pull this last big custom mod off, it will be awesome, i am busting to release pics but keep telling myself to wait a bit longer. When i do post the pics there will be hundreds for each mod. So far i have shot over 4000 pics of the build and hours of video. We finished the grill last week, mounted the new awesome headlights, so getting there. As for fidderly bits, well there are going to be lots, welding up unused holes in the firewall, reframing and strenghtening the engine hole, building a new engine cover, and it goes on lol. But i am lucky i have a good team of tradies, they know how to listen, and advise of better ways to do things and then bring what is in my head to life, and so far everything has been designed in my head, then i do sketches, then look for simular ideas online and then file everything for years, till it's time to create. So far my sheet metal guy has not seen what the next step is till he gets here to start, that way he is only working on the job at hand and not thinking of the next job. Hopefully when he comes next he will have paint samples for me to look at, i know what colours i am doing, but as he said, you can do lots of variations on a colour these days, so i am open to some of these, as for airbrushing, as i write this i am looking at 3000 ideas i have in a folder on my pc, pics and designs i have been collecting for over ten years, just waiting for this day. The beauty is, as you will see, even with all the mods, my van will still have the beddy shape, the one thing i was determined not to do was mutilate the body to the point of not reconising it as a beddy, i'm saving that for my next van. lol 
You gotta love beddies to put this efford in, and for the last 3yrs i have had an image of my finished van in my head,and we are so close now, i can almost see it coming down my driveway.
So newtothegame, if you really want this to happen, make it, i am a double amputee, with one eye, and nothing is going to stop me from again cruising in my beddy, i can taste it i am so close.

george

[John Abbott]

Your my hero George....Cant wait for the pics

[Rogue Trooper]

Your my hero George....Cant wait for the pics

I see a bit of a theme appearing here... 

[Bedfordcrazy]

never rogue. LOL LOL 

george..

[vanner065]

Hey newtothegame, some good advise there from the guys. Take some pics of your van and go around to a few panel shops and explaine what you want from them. From my experience you get what you pay for. Don't let a painter tell you what he wants to do, you tell him what you want , if he listens then he is worth thinking of using, but resprays can start off around 2g and anywhere up to 15g depending on the quality of the finish. Some painters won't do just a spray because if body prep isnot good it shows in there end result after painting and they don't want their name matched to paint that is flaking because of poor workmanship underneath. I have a friend who paid 3 grand just to get his undercarraige painted in gloss back. Do some research, chat to people at car shows and get an idea, just don't rush into it. Good luck
James