Found a trick for blending clear coat after a fender repair in Toledo last month

I had a tricky silver metallic fender repair where you could see the blend line clear as day. I switched to a finer tip on my spray gun and backed off the pressure by about 10 PSI which spread the metallic out smoother. Anyone else got a go-to tip for making metallic paint blends less obvious?

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oscarthompson16d ago

...man I wish I'd thought of that before I tried blending a silver metallic on my old Civic and ended up with what looked like a giant thumbprint on the quarter panel. I swear I must've resprayed that same spot three times because the metallic would just clump up in this weird pattern no matter what I did. Finally I just went way lighter on the clear and did like five super thin coats instead of two heavy ones, which at least broke up the line enough that you'd have to be six inches away to spot it.

the_cora15d ago

I gotta push back on the "five thin coats" idea. In my experience thin coats of metallic actually make the mottling worse because the flakes don't have enough medium to lay flat before the solvents flash off.