Spray Booth
If Mitchell Motors had to pick one aspect of car restoration and repair it is best at it would be the standard of our paintwork. This is good news for our clients, as the quality of a finished paintjob is entirely dependent on both the quality of bodywork and preparation that we have achieved prior to the paint being applied.
Although our work has won concours events and other awards, we do not believe in resting on our laurels and therefore continue to strive for improvements.
We are also concerned about the effects that solvent based paint can have on the environment.
Our latest improvement is the not-insubstantial investment in a new spray booth, to complement the top of the range DuPont paint we use:
- The environment within the booth is climate-controlled to ensure the best possible adhesion of the paint to the vehicle surface. This includes a baking cycle whereby the booth is heated to help the paint attach to the vehicle body.
- Air is constantly filtered, so dust is extracted and otherwise resulting paint blemishes reduced dramatically.
- We retain the ability to use solvent based paints, which we understand some clients prefer, although having tried and tested them numerous times, we would recommend water based DuPont products as they are much kinder to the environment with no downside to final paint finish. In fact, water-based paints give a flatter finish than solvent based paints.
- We have been asked in the past to hand-paint cars as they would traditionally have been. The booth can even help with this due to its climate control and dust extraction features.
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Initial sketches and designs ideas created. Changes noted.
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Twenty one versions were created in the end over a two month
period as we refined the shape. Five are shown above. |
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Former designed in 3D.
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Former files output directly to a computer controlled cutting
machine and created in real life. |
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How car will look when finished.
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The completed Mitchell Special MKII (Photos by Craig Pusey)
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