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Re: New Paint job on a budget thread Part III
[Re: Peckinpah]
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05/16/11 06:12 PM
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Has anyone tried that new Interlux Perfection paint? It sounds really good. Perfection I want to paint my car soon and I want to use this, but I have no experience painting and I'd just like to see if anyone had experiences with it and if they had any tips before I get it.
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Re: New Paint job on a budget thread Part III
[Re: Vinnems]
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05/19/11 07:04 PM
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First off, I'd like to thank everyone here for ruining my life  I discovered this topic via a link from The Samba, which I see many of us have made the pilgrimage from. I as up until sunrise last night reading this, and not sleeping because I couldn't stop thinking about it.
I paid $5K for a paint job for one reason and one reason alone: I didn't have the facilities. If I could build a booth in my garage, I would've sprayed this thing, but I'm already pressed for space with just the car. Seeing this topic made me feel crushed. But, this car has been a learning experience for me, so the next one will be better (and $5K cheaper!)
Have a few questions, though:
1. Definitely want to go the Brightside route. Sounds all around better. Has anyone put together a thorough guide on how to do it, yet? I've picked up bits and pieces from this topic, but hoping someone collaborated everything in one place.
Its pretty much the same process as rustoleum. Roll it on and sand every other coat with progressively finer grades. I thinned my mixture to the 2% milk consistency using Brightside's thinner, but others have rolled it straight.
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2. Can Brightside paints me mixed with each other? As in can I add some white to the light blue to make it even lighter? I'm talking only using Brightside paints, not mixing other brands into it or tinting it.
Yes. See here.
http://www.electric-lemon.com/?q=comment/reply/174
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3. How does the paint store? I was hoping to buy a gallon of the stuff, mix up my color, and save it to fix up dings and such without having to worry about mixing more and not getting the right color.
My experience is that Brightside does not store well after being opened. The top layer will harden. This thick layer of paint can be removed and the remaining paint stirred, but you may be losing some important paint properties in the process.
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4. Foam rollers are awesome, I laid down Masterseries on my chassis with one beautifully, but not applicable in certain places. What about doing car rims, for example, which aren't very flat and full of curves and holes and such?
Thanks guys. Hoping to use this stuff to paint my rims and some interior pieces I have left. And to do many, many more cars in the future 
I painted my steel rims with small foam brushes and a brstle brush to get in the seam where the wheel center joins the rim. It was very slow work, but it is doable if you're not in a hurry.
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Re: New Paint job on a budget thread Part III
[Re: Davemutt]
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06/03/11 03:21 AM
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hope summer will bring some good new projects! That T-bird looks good, I like the disk brakes to! little visual update on my car, not much other then new moon hubcaps. Paint is still looking great! (the black hood in the background is rusto black btw) 
a car is never "done"
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Re: New Paint job on a budget thread Part III
[Re: THEYOUNGGUN53]
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06/09/11 03:45 AM
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Bug turned out great  If you don't remember the username, i'm the one with the old ford truck... was painting it red/white two tone.. well i never finished the paintjob (never painted the hood). Today i'm back on it.. here's my race truck, the reason i never got around to finishing the 4x4 restoration. This thing took quite some time to get to where it is. And it fits in this thread somewhat because it's a rattle can paintjob from years ago   and the 4x4 with the rolled on brightside paint. I pulled the bed and built a flatbed. This also happens to save me probably 50 hours of body work because the bed was a bodywork disaster. Although i am going to do bodywork/paint on it eventually so i can swap beds whenever i want.    Today I welded all the trim holes back up, smoothed them down, and started block sanding the truck again. The body work i did was pretty bad, i just didn't spend enough time block sanding out all the low spots i put in the old paint with the wire wheel when i was looking for bondo after i got the truck (back when it was a 2wd f100!). I have most of them blocked out already. Truck should be pretty dang straight soon. 99% sure i'm getting rid of the two tone. I like it but i don't want to run trim (it will get mangled), and two tone with no trim is hard to make look right.
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Re: New Paint job on a budget thread Part III
[Re: kdeuce]
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06/13/11 12:56 AM
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I assume you are wondering if you could skip all the sanding between coats and get a flat finish? That would give it crazy orange peel, it wouldn't be flat. For a flat finish you still wouldn't want orange peel, you'd have to figure out how to flatten the paint itself. I'm spraying paint tomorrow! Made a big mistake and rolled rustoleum primer all over the truck and it ended up being the craziest orange peel mess ever. I spent ALL day today sanding the primer orange peel down and there is still tons of it. I could spend another week doing body work and get the final product nicer but I'm worried that if i put a month worth of work into this paint them I'll be to scared to take the truck on any good trails. SO i'll be spraying it tomorrow, so excited... really want to see how it's going to turn out. I'm not expecting much, as I know there are flaws but it's going to be a lot better than it was before, and should be pretty darn good for a 4x4 that does get used moderately. I think i am going to spray 4 coats. The two people i found that sprayed brightside said they did 3 coats in there little build threads on rolledon, so I'm thinking i'll give it an extra coat. Then I can colorsand and buff the heck out of it if need be. 
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Re: New Paint job on a budget thread Part III
[Re: 1971ford]
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06/13/11 05:35 PM
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Turned out pretty good. Damn good for a 4x4 that will see trails anyways Quite a bit of orange peel. Can't wait to colorsand and buff it out, or atleast some/most of it. I think i'll wait one week before sanding any paint though. I just can't wait to un tape it in an hour and roll it outside into the sun. It's 5 coats, I think... Used 1.75 quarts.   
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Re: New Paint job on a budget thread Part III
[Re: BigTerry]
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06/20/11 03:22 AM
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The size of the tank is not as important as the size of the motor. I'm going to assume this is probably a small compressor. It will probably be a little difficult to do a full job but I could see a panel-by-panel job being feasible.
The purple cheapo harborfreight HVLP gun uses 6 cfm. I could see you being able to paint a panel at a time with your compressor running constantly. Grab an in-line dryer filter thing (they are little red orbs) and go for it. You'll have to experiment with the paint thinning and get to know the hvlp a little. The guns really are very light and since you really don't need to paint more than a panel at a time and you can mix up paint on the fly more-or-less because it doesn't need a hardener, I think you would be fine shooting the paint. The sanding however is hard work... I'm not sure if you'll be able to do that. I'm pretty young and sanding is definitely hard on your neck/back/arms.
I would recommend getting a piece of scrap to practice on with the hvlp before shooting a car.
71Ford:
Nice Job! Lookin good in red! I hope you're ready to cut and buff though.
To tell you the truth, I just buffed parts of my car and the gloss improved ALOT and it was pretty easy. Used 3m buffing compound on my cheap HF rotary with the wool bonnet on the foam pad. Took the gloss from semi-gloss (almost flat black, ew) to glossy. I didn't even wetsand (even though I should have.) If you wanna knock out that peel, I would start with 1000 grit then follow up with 1500 then 2000 then some good hard buffing!
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Re: New Paint job on a budget thread Part III
[Re: 07RidgeRTL]
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06/29/11 02:15 AM
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Well, I figured I'd post my progress. I started working on the truck about a month ago. I have about 3-4 coats of paint on various parts of the truck, and I'm still working on it. I really want to get this truck back together by the 4th of july but.... You know how these things go! You tube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/mrRhwalden?feature=mhee
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