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Multi-Layered Painting, Detailing, and Intermediate Clear Coats

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How NASCAR Drivers Custom Helmets Are Painted! Inside Off Axis Paint Shop Tour!

What happens here

After the base coats, the helmet undergoes several rounds of detailed painting, clear coating, and light sanding. This involves applying various layers of colors and special effects (e.g., metal flake) according to the design. Between each major painting stage, an intermediate clear coat is applied and then lightly sanded. This layering and sanding process, often involving multiple trips in and out of the paint booth, builds depth, enhances the colors, and creates a perfectly smooth surface for subsequent details. Precision airbrushing is used for fine lines and intricate designs.

Goal: Build up the intricate design and ensure smooth transitions between layers.

Tools and materials

  • Airbrushes Iwata — Applying fine details and gradients
  • Spray Guns Iwata — Applying broader paint layers and clear coats
  • Clear Coat — Protecting paint layers and adding gloss
  • Metal Flake — Adding glittery effect
  • Paint Axalta — Adding colors and details

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finishing it up does it irritate any little bit of part inside of you to scuff down and repaint a helmet that's already has paint on it now we already i mean we get pretty used to it by this time you know and then most of our guys like everyone gets brand new helmets you know for the most part so we don't have to like sand anything down or stand our work off you're basically just putting base colors on clearing it let it sit over the night and then you know sanding it down doing more artwork so all of our sanders they do like they kind of have a hard time grasping the concept when they're you know sanding over fresh artwork so you kind of gotta use them into it and figure it out but oh so this is sanded to put more on top of it yeah that's more on top yeah oh so they get cleared probably three or four times depending on the design or whatever else so like that one's pretty well done like it's just waiting for final clear so like these will get sanded down one more time just a quick scuff make sure everything's super smooth and then it gets final cleared and then it'll be shipped to bell and they'll they'll build it for us huh well that's neat this is the bathroom watch your step though there's a lot of people eat it on there everyone uh so this is william byron's so that'll probably be raced um not daytona but the next race but we still have to get them all done because they'll do photo shoots and stuff like that and uh anything that fox wants to do for you know leading up to the races or anything like that you'll have to have all your stuff done uh a couple weeks prior just to get all that media stuff for social media and whatever they need so that one's almost done um this is our paint bank a million colors literally we can mix whatever color you'd like people love our man colors a lot of the stuff we use the most of we keep on hand and then we do all of our spraying clear coating everything else you'll notice how it's just big enough to fit helmets in here and nothing else because uh you always have that friend that's like oh can i come paint my hood or my car or whatever and i'm like no there's you can't put through the door i can't get painted in you can't here guilty if you can't put it in here did you guys build this thing yourself uh yeah we had a company like stamp it all out for us but then we had to build it all ourselves when we got it in here so and you can see how bad the filters are that's literally we changed all the filters like right…

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