Painting my 2011 grille pics and questions

DONE!!!!! All i have to do now is get the devil horns and paint that white...willl post pic of it on truck soon

 

Looks really good! Did you have difficulties taping off te little triangles on the sides? It was a real bitch for me.

 

Yes it was really really pain in the ass.

 

nice man, it looks like it turned out really good!

 

very good work man.

 

Thanks all of y'all. I appreciate the complaints and support. It took me a whole week to do since im in college

 

Damn man! That looks like a factory painted sport grill...Good job!

 

thanks...i tried my best

 

...you slept with your grill? uhm, oookay!

 

no lol only place i could get a good pic

 

here it is on my truck

 

Looks awesome! I'm about to start painting my chrome to match my MGM truck.
I've got one question/comment though. I just got off the phone with a local paint shop just to see what they'd charge to do this kind of thing and he told me they wouldn't do mine because I've already sanded it with a coarse grain pad. He informed me that you're actually not supposed to sand it with anything coarser than say, a 600 grit, before using the AP and primer. Supposedly it will make it even more susceptible to flaking and peeling.
What do yall think? Everything I've ever read online says always sand first...

 

I sanded mine with course paper and everything turned out good. I put 2 coats of ap then primer and wet sand then more primer then paint and wet sand and all over again

 

Wow! Great job.

 

Well and I've already sanded mine so I'm sticking to it at this point!
This might sound like an odd technique but I actually threw on a light layer of primer, then before it was dry, went back and sanded with the course grit. This way I could see better any areas that I was missing. Granted, it was a little messier, but I feel like I got better uniform coverage with sanding.

If you're cool with it, I might just continue to post up pics and updates of my painting in your thread, as opposed to starting yet another one. Should be pretty much the same thing, just different color...I'm a little scared of the MGM not matching perfectly so haven't completely decided if I'm gonna do it or just a black.

 

Thanks man.

 

Yes that's fine you can post your progress on here. Its not going to match 100%. Where are you getting the paint from?

 

Picked up 2 cans of Duplicolor "1G3 MGM" paint. I sprayed a test section on a separate piece of plastic to get some idea of the color but I'm really leaning towards just going with black because I know it's gonna drive me crazy if the match isnt spot on.

 

You did a really nice job! Looks better than factory.

 

Well thank you thank you. Tried to do the best I could