Blending

[Stu_182]

What does this actually mean? If I was to get a door sprayed I know it would need blended to the 1/4 panel but what exactly does that mean? Does it just mean the paint is mixed to be the same as the 1/4 panel and not just an off the shelf colour? Or does it mean the 1/4 panel will get sprayed as well as the door.

Sounds a bit of a stupid question I know. I under stand the panels need to match the originals.

Thanks.

 

[st3ve]

It means they paint part of it as to blend it in with the door until you cannot notice a difference in colour or any lines in the paint.

However, there are good and bad bodyshops.

 

[JCC]

Means doing the quarter panel as well as the door, when applying the basecoat (the colour) they will flick the paint out onto the quarter a bit to fade it into the original paint so the colour doesn't look off. It also helps with colours which have a lot of metallic fleck through them.

If you're doing a whole door and it requires blending you'd need to do the wing as well.

 

[Stu_182]

Cheers guys I understand now.

 

[Gally]

You have a blak car aswell so if the garage have any brains or talent they may not need to blend the adjacent panel.

 

[JCC]

As above, don't think we've ever had to blend any black car we've painted.

 

[Stu_182]

I thought black was an easy match too. I'm needing to get a few panels painted so wanting to do it in stages because I don't have all the money at the moment bit if it all needs blended then I would probs have to get it done on a one'r

 

[mx1_champ]

do it in one go you can normally get a bit nocked of rather than paying full whack for each panel individually. but as said above black normally matches pretty well without having to blend