Be honest on this A 12 repo hood

[cj's mopar]

Well I got this new hood from a guy said it was not painted right .
I been wet sanding it for 3 night now with grey pad and ajax .
What doe you guys think ?
I can take it I promise. Lol

 

[DeltaV]

I like it!!!

 

[4mulas]

Looks good to me

 

[33 IMP]

What is the goal? and what was wrong with the paint before?
An original hood was a textured satin black.

 

[OneWheelPeel]

I’d run it!

 

[SgtSuperbird]

It looks very close to what it should look like. Good job.

 

[fullmetaljacket]

Excellent.

 

[Hilljack68]

That's purdy. I'd throw it on my Coronet any time!

 

[Big D A12]

I wouldn't sand anymore. You may have removed the texture as mentioned before. The color looks good in the picture. The original organisol used a metallic to get the texture which gave the slight grey hue to the black.

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[cj's mopar]

Thanks for you advice it really was bad before that why I sanded .
I am just using a very fine pad .
Trying to get uniform sand lines if that makes sense in pictures it looks better than up close and personal.
But I think it will pas for a Saturday night cruise night car .
I have a before and after I will post .
I am not sure what they guy used who painted it .

 

[beebest]

I think it looks great!! Nice work.

 

[4mulas]

Well, based on The question in the first post and picture it looks good to run.

But now that I see the last post here and before picture I like that too. They did a good job of replicating the textured look it would have had from the factory, just a titch too shiny, but I would have run it that way too!

 

[furious70]

Good work, I thought about going and grabbing that hood myself!

 

[33 IMP]

Thanks for you advice it really was bad before that why I sanded .
I am just using a very fine pad .
Trying to get uniform sand lines if that makes sense in pictures it looks better than up close and personal.
But I think it will pas for a Saturday night cruise night car .
I have a before and after I will post .
I am not sure what they guy used who painted it .

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If the before is on the drivers side, that's probably closer to the original..... according to the picture, and depending on how coarse the texture. And it is a bit too shiny.
In my opinion.... either would have been okay for a non-real-A12.
What you have now looks good!

 

[fullmetaljacket]

Transparent Dulling spray could have been applied to get the desired sheen or a satin black from SEMS would be very, very close.

 

[cj's mopar]

I was thinking about giving it a coat of trim black and dry spraying from a distance ,never used satin black .
I might order some and due som spay cards tests