Thought I should share this find with those of you who are looking to get some fresh paint, but dont have alot of extra money. Click some of the extra links. Also check out the finish some of these guys achieved.

http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2007/05/...&frame=true

 

wow. that's pretty cool. Maybe I'll put that one on the back burner. I'd like to do it one day, but it looks like something you should be very very sure about. Did you happen to find any articals about using metalic flakes in the paint? I would really like to do it with flakes.

 

Nope from all that I have come across nothing about flakes, but there isn't anything saying you can't add flakes the last few coats you lay down.

 

All of the paint jobs don't look that great. It looks good, but it dosn't pop like a metalic flake job. I'm just wondering if it would be possible, or if the metalic flakes would be too thick for the thin coat of paint.

 

The paint on Amaya (my Tib) is getting bad. I'm needing new paint, especially on the front end where the kid I bought her from decided to slap on a clear bra in the middle of a hot summer to ruin the paint.

However, having Amaya being black and looking at the black Mustang preview, it looks like it was done in someone's garage as someone's experiement with ten cans of spray paint. I always hate seeing that around town; just looks like some kid desperatly trying to be cool but doing a horrible job at it. It has to be at least shiny.

 

This has been posted before.
The thing about painting your car like this is your paint isnt hardened. so if you ever need to use a solvent to get tar off or something it will take the paint off. If you want to paint an old rust-bucket then go for it but I would never paint the tibby this way.
plus, you just have flat colors - no metallics.

 

have you guys seen the paint shop program from duplicolor. I'm contemplating painting a car that way. That method I figure you could somehow incorporate some metal flake since your spraying.

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/paintshop.html

This option is roughly the same price if you have the tools. The paint comes in quarts for $20 a piece. You need a can of prime, color, and clear. I think that one of each is enough to cover the whole car. I might end up painting the 75 cutlass black with that system. It's off-white now and I just never liked that color.

 

you could use a Rustoleum oil based clear and add flakes using the same method

none of these articles talk about a clear coat.

hmmm

maybe Ill try it on my sub woofer box project

 

I'm confident enough in my painting skills to paint my entire car. I was thinking about doing it, but I'm worried that the color will be off. Plus I'm lazy. So I'm going as far as priming it, and getting a shop to do it, lol.

 

i was watching some car show like a month ago where they were talking about how to find out if the paint on your car is lacquer or enamal (i think).

so they put some rubbing alcohol on a rag and wiped the lacquer painted car and the color of the car showed up on the rag. in that case it meant that particular car had the original paint (old @$$ car).

the other car that had the other type of paint-... well nothing showed up on the rag.

so my question is-... do you really want to trust "the old cheap way"?

i mean i'm sure there is a good reason why they stopped using lacquer paint jobs. maybe it just took too long. or maybe people were driving through puddles of rubbing alcohol.