Well, this is Donnie Smith and this is an 8RBN Out Toot Hit and today we're going to show you how to blend paint. The first of all, the thing that you want to do is you want to be able to mix your paint up and make sure that it is a blendable color, that it is really close to the color of your painting. Now, the fender that we just painted is silver and this one is not matched with, on purpose, this is not matched with demonstration, but normally you want to get that just as close as possible. What a blend is, that's where the new color that you're painting transitions into the old color, kind of like a fade, you think, but like that. It actually kind of fills the eye a little bit because sometimes it's not a perfect match, but by the time you blend your paint out, you'll never be able to notice where... First of all, what we're going to do is just mix this paint up. It mixes one to one with the reducer and we just mix it up like we normally would painting anything. We've got two ounces of paint here, so we'll put two ounces of reducer. We'll start up. Now it's ready to put it in the get and spray. Okay, we've got the paint mixed up, we've got it reduced and ready to spray. We're just going to show you, this is the pender that we're going to be painting, we're going to be blending into and this is the color we're going to use. You can tell that it's quite a bit darker, but we're doing that, you know, on purpose to demonstrate how to blend. When I got mentioned blending, it's just basically, let's say we're painting this pender and maybe we had a door here and if you just painted just this fender not the door, you know, that would be called a button match and sometimes it's hard to achieve a color match that way. So what we do is we paint this pender and then blend in the door. For this purpose, we're just going to show you how to blend into this pender where we'll paint this edge and then we will blend the paint in to the existing paint. I'm going to lay some tape right here. Just kind of demonstrate the difference in the color. Let's put it right on the edge here. And then I'm going to put a stripe along the spender. I'll put it right here so we can see how the transition works. Okay, we'll tack this off and we'll spray the, start spraying the paint. Okay, I've got the fender masked off like I want to have a tacked graded spray and what you want to do, the first thing you want to do is you want to get your paint mixed up just like you normally would any base coat, whatever brand you're using this one to one of your dessert. And I'm just going to paint this edge because we're just assuming that this door that we just painted this door and we want the spender to match the door. So we're going to paint this edge and this paint and the door will be the same paint so it's going to match right here. And then we're going to transition this color into the original color there. So what I want to do first is just put, cover this panel until hiding. What I mean by that is put enough paint on there until you cover the tape or whatever you want to cover the primer. And by the way, whatever we're doing just one panel like this, this is called blending within the panel. I'm going to blend just in the panel. If I had a band right here for example, I could blend out this way and back this way up and down and not have to get into another adjacent panel. So we're just going to paint this edge, a normal coat like you would paint anything, you know, a project paint about six to eight inches. Okay, we've got two coats of color on the area that we're blending to on that fender. Now, obviously that is way off. That would not be a blendable match. But you know, that's what we're doing for this demonstration is to show you. But the next thing you would do when you're blending, especially in high metallic colors as silver like we're shooting, is you're going to mix the paint in with some clear. It's not like your clear coat. What this is, this is basically a base coat. Just like the paint that you're shooting, but it has no pigment in it. So it's a base coat with no color. And what you're going to do with this says it is base coat. You're going to mix it up one to one with the dooser just like you would with your paint. So we're going to mix two ounces of that with two ounces of the producer. Now we've got four ounces and now we're going to take the paint that we just used and mix it one to one with this clear. So we're going to pour it up to eight ounces now. And now we're going to extend the blend out a little further with this. That will help blend the color. Now notice whenever I was blending that, I painted what I was originally painting. I went past that a little bit and kind of fanned it out to kind of let that paint over the spray, get a blend into the existing paint. Now normally that would probably be good. You know that was a matchable blend, but it's not. This is more like a phase. What we're going to do is we're going to cut that one more time with 500 just to help make more of a transparent blend there. So I'm going to do it just the same way and mix this one to one reducer and then mix what I already have mixed with that one to one. Now the paint is even more transparent. Okay, so that's basically basically how you do a blend. We've got this case, the darker color, which blends in from lighter color to color, which of course this is noticeable because it is such a different color. This is a bud match. It looks like this right here. Of course that would be very noticeable. Now this kind of demonstrates this is the exact same color as this is. You can see how the blend transitions from the darker color into the lighter color. So that's kind of covers blending. Now what we do is we'll clear coat the entire panel and then it would be ready.