Wet or Dry, To use body shop procedures as a guide only sightly applies here. They turn out a good product but that is for the greatest part a street car...ur everyday driver.
Over the last 40 plus years I've done both, with dry there's dust to get rid of, with wet there has to be some where for that water to go plus dry out.
For what u what to achieve I would use what works best for u and the place you're doing it.
Denny, everything shrinks, how much, or how much time it takes, along with what will be tolerated is the consideration. There will be those who dispute this but I've seen it happen many times.
Your not wanting a concourse paint job so the shrinkage that occurs is not that important, as it is in many of the things I've painted over the years. Only a few has this ever been a consideration for the end result, and that meant extra time.
Plus here's the other thing, if you would put a perfect concourse paint job on your truck it wouldn't look right. Your truck is stock and the paint job should look really good, but not concourse quality.
Having been a concourse judge at Chevy Vette Fest in Chicago for 11 years I know what paint looks like or should look like.
If it was me, I like wet cause I can squeegee off the water and check for flatness as I sand. I don't have to look back and check for areas that need more.
You say ur going to let this guy shoot it and live with it. That's okay, cause I would wait a year and look at the paint after it had time to harden before I did a color sand.
Shrinkage has taken place plus the paint is harder preventing easy burn threw should you want to improve the looks by doing a little color sand and buff.
Take into consideration I've never had the luxury of painting and then baking it in an oven. An oven would change things.
Dan
