It's been a long time coming, but I finally applied paint to the outside of the car. I was warned that silver is not an easy color to spray, and after the second coat of base went on (zebra striped) I was ready to hurl the paint gun across the room and go buy some black paint instead. But after going for a drive to calm down, and then switching back to my old cheap reliable siphon feed gun for the third coat of base, I couldn't be happier with the results.