Yep, really useful mate and the videos are great. I buy a lot of accident damaged stuff 4 or 5 years old and have a guy who does me a good job for the money and gets a decent colour match- i can sometimes tell its not perfect but your average joe blog punter cant 😎 depending on what colour we are talking ( he hates silver or grey) he will either just do edge to edge (i.e. paint the panel only) or will blow the new colour into the doors/ bonnet etc to hide any colour match differences. He always compounds them down to get a decent finish and he doenst clear coat them thats for sure!! I remember the old cellulose paint days, it was good stuff!!

I agree that if you are doing laquer over base then the base coat has to be right! and on the subject of new cars, someone i know bought a brand new kia sportage ,18 plate and the orange peel effect on the paint was so bad i was convinced the wings had been painted again, it was shocking!!!