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Flat black
Range Rover Blues:
If you paint it matt black it will go shiny in the areas that get rubbed the most, though I like your thinking.
TBH modern water based paints do the work for you, you will have the same problems spraying matt as you will gloss ie runs and dust.
Buy or hire a spray gun, rattle-cans are about as effective as using an artists' airbrush. If you spray matt it will look like a big pile or wriggly black worms, there was a kid up the road did it once to a viva and it looked a joke. By the time you have cut the over spray back that causes the effect your car will be gloss anyway.
So unless you particulalry want a non-reflective finish (bonnet) then do it gloss, but in a solid colour that you can touch-up.
SnakeLogic:
I'm hoping to get away with just roughing up the original paint with a ScotchBrite pad or similar, and NOT add the expense of a primer coat. I realize that this may not be the way a professional would do it, but I'm trying to do this on the cheap, not win a car show.
All of the online searches I've done for car painting info yield very professional level advice for top-quality finishes. Anybody have a bare-bones advice?
The plan:
Buy a cheap home center compressor and spray gun.
Get some car paint.
Hang some tarps around the end of the driveway to keep drifting overspray off the neighbor's house as much as possible.
Mask off the bits I DON'T want painted with tape and newspaper.
Don some kind of cheap mask to keep the worst of the stuff out of my lungs.
Paint Disco black.
If I get a few runs or spots in the paint, I doubt I'll lose any sleep. At least it'll look bad because I tried to paint it myself, rather than looking bad because some idiot burned the paint off the bonnet and roof with a buffing wheel.
Am I missing any crucial points here?
drmike:
I painted my RR NATO black which is very matt indeed and cheap - I still have 4 litres left for under a tenner.
I used a small roller and many coats. Many people remarked upon the finish, but a smack in the teeth soon stopped that.
In fact with care the finish wasn't too bad but as someone else said it shows all the marks and scuffs which didn't bother me at all. It also seemed to absorb mud stains but generally it washed up OK and anyway you could always do what the squaddies do and put another coat of paint on!
Mike
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
--- Quote from: "abyssdj" ---so what you're saying is, when combined with the low radar reflecting lines of lets say, a defender.... we can use the incredible top speed to... well, get around speedily? :D :roll:
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PM'd you.
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
--- Quote from: "SnakeLogic" ---I'm hoping to get away with just roughing up the original paint with a ScotchBrite pad or similar, and NOT add the expense of a primer coat. I realize that this may not be the way a professional would do it, but I'm trying to do this on the cheap, not win a car show.
All of the online searches I've done for car painting info yield very professional level advice for top-quality finishes. Anybody have a bare-bones advice?
The plan:
Buy a cheap home center compressor and spray gun.
Get some car paint.
Hang some tarps around the end of the driveway to keep drifting overspray off the neighbor's house as much as possible.
Mask off the bits I DON'T want painted with tape and newspaper.
Don some kind of cheap mask to keep the worst of the stuff out of my lungs.
Paint Disco black.
If I get a few runs or spots in the paint, I doubt I'll lose any sleep. At least it'll look bad because I tried to paint it myself, rather than looking bad because some idiot burned the paint off the bonnet and roof with a buffing wheel.
Am I missing any crucial points here?
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Sounds a good plan to me.
Just don't do what a mate of mine did with his Mini. He wanted to paint a Union Jack on the roof, so he did. In emulsion! He did it in his lunch break at work. It then rained. The station sergeant was not happy as red and blue rivers then ran down the car park.
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