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@edsnova posted:
 

...good enough so you're eyes won't hang on it...

 

I think that's the key to real-world paint touch-up.

My ivory car was primered in black. The tiniest rock chip is visible from outer space.

And I get rock chips on, like, every third drive.

I could spend three days fixing each chip - filling, sanding, buffing (assuming I actually knew how to do that) - but I've chosen a more realistic approach.

I dab on some touch-up paint, try not to spread it over an area twice as large as the original chip, and move on. If you stare at the chip, you can still see it, but if you don't know where it is, it's invisible. Again, these are supposed to be 70-year-old cars. Paint defects are part of the whole gestalt. 

Besides, these cars gives us lots of other things to obsess about. Was it really idling smoother yesterday, or do we just imagine that?

 

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