any of you lads painted a car with no professional experience?
how did it turn out?
I'm looking at painting a car that every top surface is faded back to the original colour
the way I look at it, fresh paint with a few defects here and there has to look better than faded paint... right?
I plan to do it with decent tools and careful prepwork, not just a rattlecan job in half a day
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There are two things a beginner painter cannot acheive with a $50 gun and a borrowed compressor.
1) a dust free finish
2) a mirror finish straight out of the gun
But with a bit of wetsanding and polishing, you can get near flawless concourse results.
Will you be using a roller or a spray gun?
What kind of paint?
Yeah, it took ages and looked shit.
Do you intend to do any bodywork first?
Dents can be filled pretty easy. It's worth putting the work in.
If you're going to use a roller, I suggest going for a high quality marine topcoat from International or something like that instead of the usual Rustoleum shit.
You can get a really nice finish with a gloss roller and by heating the paint up to 40c/100f first. Use it straight out of the can instrad of watering it down.
If you must have an additive, make it 5% flax seed oil for flow.
I rattle canned a one ton truck once. It actually looked good until you got right next to it. Seeing on the street it looked good. Held up until I sold it. Would do it again if I needed to
I have not put a huge amount of thought in yet however I dont mind spending a good amount of money on tools and paint
Not looking to do a $50 spraygun if its just going to be shit
I was going to do a bit of body work but nothing major needs to be done on the car
I havent heard of using a paint roller
Surely that comes out horrible?
A $50 spray gun will produce a professional finish in the right hands. By professional I mean no sanding or buffing required.
But this being your first paint job that is unlikely to happen. Some orange peel is expected, though you can still get a finish is as good as factory or better.
When me or others say "the $50 spray gun" we mean the "Professional" spray gun 68843 from Harbor Freight. They also have a Purple one for $15.
The roller thing is most commonly known as the "$100 paint job" and involves Rustoleum paint thinned to the consistency of milk applied with a roller for many coats, wetsanding in between every few coats using progressively finer sand/paper.
But there are better paints to use that don't need to be thinned out as much.
I might buy a car with beat paint and try this method for shits and giggles, hell I'll probably make money off it when I sell it
Yeah im really considering this
painting is quite fun its very rewarding. Solvents make me happy.