Originally posted by KingpinSVT:


also, you guys rattle can yours or get it professionally done? i know a few that DIY, cause you have to get it redone over and over again anyway (at a 100 or so a pop). i figure if i have to keep painting this thing, i might rattle can it. we'll see.



If you rattle can it, have some paint and clear mixed up at an auto body supply shop. It will be a good quality of paint rather than the old school laqure or whatever else you can get at Pepboys and the like. Laqure was used to replace the brush on paints they used to use on cars that would take days if not weeks to dry, if that tells you how craptasic and old it is compared to acrylic urethane paints.

Also, I have rattle canned many items. Just take your time with light coats with good overlap/coverage. Body color is that alone, color. Save some of the total MIL thickness of what you can actually spray down for the clear. Becareful though, too much primer, paint and clear will cause sagging or runs atleast, but could craze.....and that's a PITA.
Once it's all dry, just 'cut and buff' it and it should look tits.

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