Best way to fade a paint job?

any1 have any experience fading a paint job b4 ? just curious ..like the gene winfield cars he does they r sik.. is it that hard ?

fades are pretty hard. i use 2 guns with the two colors in them, spray, reduce, spray, reduce, stand back and look at the outcome, and tweak it from there.. use high air pressure, low volume, and work it..   my suggestion is to doa couple of spray panels first such as an old hood to get the desired outcome.. 

i have found that adding more clear base to your solution lets you have more control also it keeps the base base instead of reducer. nothing like trying to clean it before clear and having some of you fade wipe off. you can use sg 100 , dbc500, or some of the mixing clear from whatever system you choose. overreduced base likes to go everywhere.

i like to use two guns as well, i shoot the light color first then the dark with a good distance between them lower then the fade center will be,  then tack the surface. Then i start my fade. depending on the materials i am using i will either over reduce or add intercoat clear to the mix AND over reduce. a good gun is a must here! i suggest a 1.0 nozzle in the front of it and up yer pressur a bit, maybe 3 or 4 psi this will atomize the materials a bit more and your droplet size will decrease. i like to use my LPH 400 for this type of work, it seams to be a little eaiser to handle then the tekinas or any of  my devibiss's. as far as it being hard, i dont know your skill level at all so i aint going to begin to guess what you can do, it is a tedious, nerve wreakin, job dependin on how large your fade will be and the colors you want to play with. A steady hand is a must so be sure before you start your comfortable and your hose is laying where it will travel the easiest when your going to start back away from the surface start your spray and ease into the surface, if you start as you would just a new coat you'll find your spray will be to dark and the fade to abrupt, this is one case where lighter is better, its much easier to add more color then it is to take it off. Long even strokes, watch your breathing and stay loose, if you tense up or get wrapped up in a hose or bump yer cup  on something it will show big time man, so relax slow and steady. one last tip dude DO NOT TACK THE JOB AFTER YOU HAVE DONE YOUR FADE!!!!! this will destroy every thing you have just done, as soon as i finish i shoot a layer of DBC 500 on it to lock it down. i would also recommend you start with darker colors, a long fade on white is not a good beginners task. of  have missed somethin or confused ya let me know  and i will try harder to fill it in in words you will understand its much eaiser to show some one then to type it out

I now currently have 10 vehicles in magazines I have painted and been on mtv once.  Depending on what two colors you are trying to fade depends on the amount of steps needed. For instance if you are fading two totally different colors such as silver to blue i would recomend a five color process(up to ten colors) which sounds harder than it actually is. First i would paint the vehicle or stripe 100 percent silver. then mix 75 percent silver 25 percent blue and fade it out. then take 50 percent sliver and 50 percent blue over laping while fading out the color. then use 25percent silver 75 percent blue and continue the fade and then 100 percent blue and fade accordingly. That is absolutly the best possible fade you can acheive.  No two color fade will even remotely come close to the look this fade will give you.  dropshopclothing.comfadehurricane.comupstate-dvd.com