- Hey this is Donnie Smith.
And today we're gonna discuss blending paint.
Now blending paint is the process of if you have a car
that's been involved in a accident and you may have to
blend adjacent panels or you can blend within the panel.
But it's just a process of making the color or the car
look invisible like it had an invisible repair.
You don't wanna see a color difference.
You don't want to tell if the new panel's been painted.
You want it to look exactly the same and blending is the
technique to do that.
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Okay if I was to ask you how many colors of the silver's on
here how many would you say?
How many would you say?
- [Participant] One.
- One.
Okay.
Now if I hold this one up how many colors of silver
would you say?
- [Participant] Two.
- Two.
And the truth is that these are the exact same colors,
both panels.
Is that a match there?
- [Participant] (can't hear reply)
- Okay that's a good match.
Well let's flips this around.
Is that a match?
Does that match?
- [Participant] (can't hear reply)
- Okay.
What about those two?
Are those a good match?
- [Participant] (can't hear reply)
- What about those two?
- [Participant] (can't hear reply)
- So these two ends match and these two ends match.
However those two different colors and this is one.
That's because this one's been blended
and this one hasn't.
This is what you would call a bud match.
So if you painted a door on a car and you painted it with
this color and this is the color of the car,
that's what it's gonna look like.
But obviously this one's tinted off a little further than
it should be for this purpose..
If you'll notice I left this tape on here and you can see
where this has just got clear coat on top of it.
And then this has got the paint,
solid paint.
Big difference.
Now if you look at this one you can see where it was all
this color to begin with.
So it was this color right here.
And you can start to seein' a little bit of silver and dark
silver until it's full hiding over here.
So you can kinda see that with this blue tape on here.
And you can't really see where it's blended at.
Yes basically a an illusion you know that fools the eye
into believing that this is one color but actually it's
exactly like that.
We put 'em up to each other,
now you can probably see how it changes.
Now if you wanna see the blending process itself,
I've got a video if you'll click right up here.
And it'll go through all the steps.
Now in that video I'm using a clear to help that transition.
In this one there happens to be no clear,
I just used straight paint to make this blend.
But you can especially if you're doing
a fake job or something.
You can mix your paint with some base clear
to help that transition.
And that'll make the base coat more translucent
to help that transition.
But this is just solid paint.
I painted it all this top color.
I painted 'em,
I painted the whole panel with this top color
on both of these.
I blended here,
you can see it with that tape like I explained.
And here I've done 'em gut match.
So that kinda talks about the blending process and how that
can fool the eye and where you think that that is a better
match than it really is.
Now whenever I was making that blending video you know I've
had some people mention that this make them mad that you
know shops are doing this and they're not really
doing a good job.
But really if you have a shop that's gonna blend they are
doing a good job.
Because a bud match,
it totally not gonna be that far off.
I mean that's really bad when we did it for this purpose.
But if the mount metallic even lays down a little bit
different I mean you're gonna tell a little bit of
difference between the two,
you know the door and fender or whatever.
So really I would want them to do a blend job.
And what they do is they'll blend in so this other panel
or if they're blending in within same panel like this,
and then they'll clear coat the whole panel.
That way you can't really tell where it's been painted.
And I wouldn't be upset that the you know color may be a
little off and they had to do this to make it match.
Because metallics you know they can be very tricky,
and pearls and all that.
And like I said just that spraying technique.
You know we may spray a little bit different
than the factory does.
Or you know there's a lot of things that go into that that
you know air pressure that makes that,
that may make that metallic lay down just a little bit
different to give it that bud match appearance
like it doesn't match.
So anyway that kinda explains blending.
Again if you haven't seen that blending video be sure and
go over there where I'm actually out there spraying a fender
and you know going through the process.
And in the video I'm actually going through the process
showing you how to if you even want to break it down a
little bit more and do like a custom fake job.
But anyway that wraps up this video.
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