Lemony fresh repainting (Page 1 of 2)

+1 for cheap exterior latex.  We just finished painting our car a couple weeks ago.  We did sand down some very high spots, e.g. old stickers that had been painted over a few times, but we didn't sand the entire car.  We also lazily primed the car with exterior primer.  I mean lazily too, we basically just poured it out of the can onto the car and spread it around a bit.  The only reason we did that was because part of our theme uses white paint, otherwise we wouldn't have bothered with the primer.

If you've got a decent air compressor you can get a $13 Harbor Freight paint gun and spray it in a hurry. If not Rustoleum and a foam roller is a popular option.

I found that rolling/painting on the Rustoleum as gloss paint worked for my wheels but when I tried to go for the matte black look, it turned out looking like shit (very faded, almost grey despite sanding, experimenting with various thinning agents, and >3 coats).

I then switched to latex paint (flat black for $16/Gal compared to $8/qt for rustoleum) and never looked back. For the last race when I went to a glossy sky blue, I went into the local paint store and asked them what latex paint they had on special. They sold me 1 gal of glossy exterior latex for $20 (clearance price) and tinted it whatever color I wanted. I sanded the black off a bit and rolled this stuff on with a foam roller.

Unless you've got some glorious car where the whole car itself is a theme (see: Faster Farms Rambler), please Libarace up for your next race and come up with a halfway decent theme.
-g

Go to Lowes - they always have an area of screwed up paint that didn't match up on color.  That works in a pinch.

I've mixed the hammered paint with thinner and regular rustoleum.  It came out better than expected.

Here's a close up of the hammered paint.  It worked really well. 

Any tips for making paint stick to plastic?
The plastic in question is this http://cmwraceparts.com/proddisp.php?pn=CAP93081-10

Seriously loving the hammered look.  I had wanted to do some kind of distressing anyway but that nails it.  Did you mix in the hammered grey with royal blue? I'm going for something bluer than that but not that far off.  How much can you dilute the hammered pain before the effect just looks like orange peal? lol

Think I'll do some test painting on an old fender...

-Sandow

We also Added some varnish

man i have just about perfected the CHEAP paint job on everything from my dump trucks to 40ft storage /shipping containers....

Paint... industrial enamel   most commercial paint places have it alot of times mis-tints in 5gal pails as cheap as $5 a gallon  if not places like tractor supply have gloss enamel tractor paint $25 gallon

most thin with mineral spirits

prep at the very least wipe down a clean car with lacquer thinner wipe everything down well if you want the paint to stick

spray  you can use a cheap harbor freight gun  hell i use a airless rig made for painting buildings   most of the time thin about 25% to spray  spray several light coats keeping the gun even and do not arc the gun keep a wet edge...  then on the LAST coat HOT COAT IT....  reduce the paint 50/50 with thinner and about 10% penatrol     and shoot a light wet coat this will let all the edges blend and give you a high gloss hard finish... i do this usually OUTSIDE on ground I have wetted/watered in the sun is best takes about 30 min total to lay the paint down and a full day to dry... if you can come up with some cheap paint hardener to mix in 9ASK SOME BODYSHOPS IF THEY HAVE SOME OLD 1/4 CANS AROUND...  the hardener with make it dry faster and harder... use hardener in every coat if you have it

SECOND option... by sign vinyl off ebay  50yd rolls 12' WIDE   are cheap  and you can just WRAP it... in 12' passes

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Tractor paint....thinned with mineral spirits one third and shot with a cheap spray gun from fleet and farm...

I watched a lot of Dukes of Hazzard as a kid...

I started with Rustoleum mixed with mineral spirits to thin. Then I switched to Ace Hardware's knockoff "Rust Stop" which is thinner than Rustolum. I can't remember if it even needed thinning. I sprayed it with an electric fence sprayer. 80 grit sandpaper prep and a quick wipe down. hasn't lifted or peeled yet.

For numbers and decals I razor cut plotter paper traced with the help of an old projector and laptop. Then hit it with 3M spray adhesive, stick it on and rattle can.

This is my fender that I painted, all kinds of stuff happening on it. I made up the base with a PPG Omni Victory red with some pearl added to it, I then based over it with some Hobby Lobby red glitter followed by three coats of shop line cheap clear. I sanded it and recleared it using a Glamour clear last night. To Much?