Miracle Detail Studio with 3k of lighting and a 18 hour detail on a Alfa 8C Spider!

miracledetail

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Hi guys,



A very special client dropped this stunning Alfa Romeo 8C spider down to me a few weeks ago after doing a £5k 50 hour detail on his Carrera CGT (loads of pics and HD footage of this one, but finding it very hard to find time to do any editing last few months), had only done about 1200kms, so a lot of these buffer marks in the paint are either the factory or the dealerships funky way of a PDI clean. Bit poor considering there is only 500 of these and 80-90 microns of paint on them! You can see the weave on the panels clearly, so extreme caution on this one, as your see from the HD movie, some of the deeper marks had to stay and couldn't be fully removed on the boot lid, and this was much the same with the owners CGT, but that was in a bad way, this ones not that bad compared with the CGT.



Anyway, on with some pictures, 108 to be exact for all of you that keeping saying you want to see pictures!!! lol :)



Plenty of before pics, 50/50s, test panels, and 4 stages of paintwork correction, 2 correction, 2 final polishing, outside shots, and one HD movie which is (taken 4 hours+ to edit) exporting which I will add in the morning once its loaded on to Youtube. Its turned out to be 16.42 minutes, so a long video but I have included some of me polishing.



Video : YouTube - Miracle Detail Alfa Romeo 8c Spider 18 hour detail with 3 layers of Swissvax Crystal rock wax applied



8C finished with Prototype crystal coating and 3 layers of Crystal rock wax. Paintwork corrected with new prototype polishes, interior steam cleaned, windows protected with water repellant coating, wheels and calipers protected with Prototype crystal coating.



All positive comments or/and questions welcomed. :wave::thumb:



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The King of Bling has entered the land of Autopia once again! :bow:brit Wonderful writeup Sir Paul. I even added a 5 star to the thread rating!
 
Awesome, and welcome (back) aboard Mr. Dalton! Can you give us some more details (no pun intended) about the lighting you're using? Type of fixtures, color temperature of bulbs, etc.? Looks like they do a fabulous job of bringing out the defects.



Also I see you're shooting with a Canon DSLR, what lens are you using?
 
dfazekas said:
That might be the coolest lighting setup I've ever seen...

But I think you need a few more fixtures :P



Lighting system is just something temporary at the moment until I get the ceiling up, then were having lots of LED lighting...
 
Shiny Lil Detlr said:
Also I see you're shooting with a Canon DSLR, what lens are you using?



I'm gonna guess by looking at the EXIF data of the photo that he's shooting with a Canon 50d and EF-S 18-200mm F3.5-5.6 IS. As well as the iPhone 4 in the last few shots. Correct me if I'm wrong.



And what a good looking car. After shots look awesome.
 
bwdigital said:
I'm gonna guess by looking at the EXIF data of the photo that he's shooting with a Canon 50d and EF-S 18-200mm F3.5-5.6 IS. As well as the iPhone 4 in the last few shots. Correct me if I'm wrong.



And what a good looking car. After shots look awesome.



D'oh! I always forget to check EXIF data :o
 
bwdigital said:
I'm gonna guess by looking at the EXIF data of the photo that he's shooting with a Canon 50d and EF-S 18-200mm F3.5-5.6 IS. As well as the iPhone 4 in the last few shots. Correct me if I'm wrong.



And what a good looking car. After shots look awesome.



Spot on sir!
 
Excellent work as always Paul - Nice that you make time to post here as well.



PS: John, if Paul was able to to do this amount of correction in 18 hours, I'd say that the paint was detailer friendly. JMO
 
Fantastic work!



The lighting in your unit it insane, does all that brightness make you tired faster?
 
dsms said:
Fantastic work!



The lighting in your unit it insane, does all that brightness make you tired faster?



Thanks David, hope your well mate.



Yes, its pretty bright, probable too bright in some respects, but no, I have regular breaks and rest periods, can't sit under 3000 watts of lighting for too long.



Will be changing the metal halide lights though to high power LED, there expensive, but so cheap to run. I've found some stupidly insane lumens on high power LED lighting, I think one was something like 5000 lumens and 22 watts!



Kind Regards

Paul
 
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