Eleven steps from just-printed to looks-injection-moulded, with the kit each step needs, in the order you need it.
About 3 hours of active work spread across 2 days for a football-sized part.
How to use this: tick each step as you do it, tick the kit as you buy it. Your ticks save on this device and nowhere else.
Every job runs the same 11 steps. Only the safety kit changes with what you are sanding and spraying, so set these two first.
2K clear coat needs an air-fed visor, not a cartridge mask.
Finishing hours are the cost most people forget to charge for. There is a row for them in our free quote calculator (linked in the full guide).
This is the exact kit we run through on paid work like:
Every one of these runs through the same 11 steps. Only the material choice, the primer thickness, and the buyer's inspection distance change.
These are named products rather than links, deliberately. Stock and prices move, and every item here is available from Amazon, a hardware shop, a paint supplier or an auto-body factor. Buy whichever is cheapest and nearest. We make nothing either way.
Every item has a top pick (what we'd buy today if starting from zero) and a budget alt. Skip a category and the finish falls apart. Skip the safety category and you damage your lungs. That one's genuinely non-negotiable.
The words the steps use, in the guide's own terms. Tap any underlined word inside a step to see the same definition there.
Getting paid £300 to £3,000 to use it is the harder part. That's what the free community is for: it's the same one we built the finishing side of the business inside.
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