Well I can't say it was easy, but it wasn't too difficult either, mostly just a lot of work. First watched lots of youtube videos from dipyourcar.com, Fonzie is great at giving lots of details. Then I bought a pro car kit including a sprayer and all the materials. I bought:
- 4 gallons of black plasti dip spray
- 2 gallons of high gloss top coat
- 75 grams of KP Deep Sea Blue pearls
0. Prep your work area. Don't need much, but recommend a tarp or drop sheet on the floor of a garage with some ventilation. I setup a box fan at a back door and kept the door open.
1. Day before, gave it a good wash. Also used compressed air to shoot water from all the crevices as water can impact your outcome.
2. 18 hours later, started masking. Since its peelable material you don't mask exact lines, just leave an inch into whatever you're masking off, the rest will peel off. Masked the grille, windows, roof, windshield and rear window.
3. Mix your materials and put into the spray gun. Apply lightly, but wet and evenly. First few coats can go on a panel at a time, but I started going end to end on the last few coats to practice for pearls. Added about 7 coats of black PDS as a base coat. 15-20 mins dry time between each coat.
4. Mix pearls into the top coat, then apply, being careful to be even, but wet for all applications. Inspected each coat to see where I had missed application so I could catch it on the next coat. 3 coats and I was done.
5. Had an option to do a gloss coat, but I liked the satin so I stopped there. Then unmasked all areas, starting with masked areas that touched unmasked areas. Peeled off any unmasked areas that needed peeling and we were done.
Bought 4 gallons black PDS, used about 3.1 gallons.
Bought 2 gallons DPTC, used about 1.5 gallons.
Bought and used 75g of KP Deep Sea Blue pearls.
Bought most of my stuff on dipcanada.ca, and some off prodip.ca.
Took about 10 hours in total with 2 of us.
Pretty much got the idea and followed though on this video:
