Definitely going to be a tedious job to do. Especially when you have two tri-stage colors to work on.
As far as the chips, since he just wants them spotted in, you will need to prep the boat. 800 DA the complete boat or wetsand the complete boat and take all the shine off.
Then you will need to repair the chip...lightly 320 the chips...get this as good as you can (don't feather the chip out...you want to keep this as small as possible), then add some filler into the chip using a razor blade. You need to smear this in as good as possible. Then sand and prime...Again, keeping the spot as small as possible. You can work the primer back to keep it small by just sanding the edges back to close the size of the chip.
Let's say you have a small chip about 1/4" big and the stripe is 8" wide. Once you get the chip prepped for paint, mask off the stripes a good ways each direction. About 2' each way.
Now you are ready for the blend .Make up a color that is close to the base under the candy. In your case, you want a solid gray (for under the silver). Then cover the spot by spraying it, keeping is small as possible (if you use a gray primer, you won't have to do this). Keep your air-pressure down.
Now you want to blend your silver. This is in important step to a good candy blend. You want to basically get the gray covered, but also work your way outward at the same time. If your stripe is about 8" wide, I would suggest just going ahead and spray the width of the stripe in the silver, and concentrate on blending the opposite two directions instead of keeping the spot so small, buy the time you are done with the silver and candy, you are an inch or so from the sides of the stripe anyway. So know you are concentrating on two blends instead of a 'circle'
Be sure and keep your air pressure down at all times as you don't want metallic all over the place. You also want to constantly tack rag outside the edges of your blends. You want this blend to slowly get bigger and bigger. You should keep the spot down to about 4-7" both ways. Sounds big, but one thing I've learned...don't try to keep it small, try to keep it easy. You want a very nice subtle transition on each side of the stripe with your silver. once you are happy with the blend, be sure you have no metallic outside the main blend line.
Ready for the candy. Start basically working the same way you did with the silver. Working your way outward. Try to stay away from the very ends...keep this until you get the silver fairly caught up with the rest of the stripe candy color. once you get it close, now work your way slowly beyond the area and blend this out *working* the candy in. You may want to tack off each coat so it does not get grainy on the ends of your blends.
You pretty much can do the pearl the same way. If you don't have a color code for the white pearl, make sure you match the white fairly close to what the white looks like with pearl already on it. This will help you out.
If you have a few spots close to each other, just pretend that is one large area and work each chip individually.
On pearls, I usually spray the white base, then spray some over reduced interclass in a bit larger area so the pearl blends in nice and neat. This may also help you though.
Remember not to ry to keep the spot too small, keep it simple. Also look for good breaking points you can use to your advantage like the edges of the strips or the edge of a window or bumper molding...
YO may want to spray one coat of interclear larger than your blends so when you wipe before you clear you do not remove part of your blend.
Definitely going to be a challenge for you though. Hope this helps you out some.
Good luck to you!
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