Austarion

I foundthis thread, it's a monster but it's about painting your car on the cheap.

Here's a quick synopsis.

1. Prepare car by sanding.
2. Buy Rust paint and roller
3. Paint, sand, repeat
4. Finished.

Happy reading.....

This is insane, I'm doing this next week!

Here's a link with pics of a guy in Melbourne who's done it:

http://www.aus-cartalk.com/viewtopic.ph ... 35e639d5c0

The Australian version is called "Tremco Metal Armour" and can be found here:

http://www.tremco.com.au/

:beer

Sorry guys, found an update from today from this guy saying that the Tremco version didn't hold up to frost and needs to be re-done. However, further research into these monster threads has provided an answer.

Another product called "Brightside" is even easier to apply, doesn't require mixing and is actually a marine paint! Here's the thread, about 3/4 the way down, poster called Marq

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/sho ... rt=10&vc=1


And if your sceptic, here's his car after TWO coats and NO buffing!

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/sho ... rt=12&vc=1


This paint can be found here...


http://www.yachtpaint.com/australia/default.asp

Might have a crack with this "brightside" stuff on one of the spare front quaters I have lying around.

Would be good to have a crack at doing it when the car is finally running again.

I did my car for around 80 usd, didnt loko that good, but I had a gallon of ppg matte black :)

damnit i've got a GC galant lying around just begging for paint! It needs a little bit of prep work left but this is the perfect solution to the cheap paint job i was after

I bought a litre of 'Steel Grey' Brightside the other day and tried it on a spare nose panel I have. I used the first two coats to get the hang of it, wet sanding after each. After the third coat, the finish (after overnight drying) was insanely glossy, straight off the roller - pretty damned impressed, I have to say!

I'll put up some pics as soon as I can find where the kids have hidden the digital camera...

Can't wait to see it dude, been snowed under so haven't been able to play myself! What did the litre cost?

yes i'm keen too. let us know

your all crazy painting a starion with a roller what the fuckkkkk that is the biggest waste of time i am a spray painter so trust me if your in lonsdale 1000 buk resprays should hold up for 6 months spend 3 and you will get glassy look

Well, if you spent 5 minutes actually reading the material provided, or done 5% of the research into this before you shot your mouth off you wouldn't look like such a jerk!

This technique "Sounds" crazy, however it is proving so easy and so effective that there are already numerous magazine articles in th U.S claiming that this technique will put spray joints out of business! Think about it logically, it was only a matter of time before technology caught up with spraybooths! The paint in question is the first of it's kind in the world. It will not run, drip, crack, fade, peel and it will resist chemicals, scratches, stonechips and got knows what else. It dries to a gloss\glass finish straight out of the can and requires no special skills in order to apply it!

$1000 for a 6 month spray job? How does $200 sound for a 10 year job that you can do in a carport in 3 days?

Welcome to the future buddy, start looking for a new career! :pimp

PROOF!!!! Two coats, wetsand in between, NO BUFFING!

i had my doubts, but that actually looks pretty good

Damn....That's come up pretty damn good.

thats amazing!! definately doing it asap!!

or we can all go to lonsdale and get a smartass to spray our cars guaranteed to sink in 6 months!!! thats excellent rofl

easily the best 200 bucks you could spend on a resto :D

Ok - finally found the digital camera! Here are some pics of nose header panel painted with a roller using Brightside. I used the 'roll and tip' method using 'Steel Grey' Brightside with a 100mm roller to apply the paint and tipped with another 100mm roller. I picked Steel Grey as the colour because it's closest to the existing colour (silver).

A few things to note:

1. As this was an experiment, I made no attempt to rectify existing scratches, dents, etc in the panel.

2. Preparation was only sanding with 360 grit followed by wax & grease remover.

3. After the first coat, I wet-sanded with 400 grit and then 600.

4. After the second coat, I wet-sanded with 800 grit and then 1200

5. After the third and final coat (so far), I did nothing except let it dry, so the pics are as it is straight off the roller, straight out of the can, no sanding, no compounding, no buffing, no polishing. I didn't even give it a wipe before taking the photos.

6. The rainbow and banding effects are artifacts of the camera and image size changing. Apologies for the lighting - I was trying different methods to capture the finish.

6. The pics look slightly better than it really is.