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Has anyone tried the poor man's paint job? basically $50 paint job but with high density foam brushes.

http://www.stylusscustoms.com/poormanspaintjob.html

There's a video about halfway down.



That is one of the variations on the 'roller' paint job that we have discussed in the course of this thread.

The original 'roller job' was done with just 5" high density foam rollers.

A variation was developed where you used a 5" high density roller to lay down the paint and then immediately go over it with a fresh 5" high density roller OR a foam paint brush to 'tipple' the rolled on coat ( tippling is lightly running the second roller or brush over the rolled paint to spread it evenly and pop any air bubbles that may have appeared

There also were some folks who had good luck using high quality paint brushes ( and even those black foam brushes ) to do the entire paint job - from painting to tippling.

The only achilles heel of using just those black cheap foam paint brushes... is that their foam is not really designed to be continuously saturated with mineral spirts. And so the black foam paint brushes may start disintergrating as you use them... leaving little black artifacts of the disintegrating paint brush behind. As well, the cheap black foam brushes are basically glued on to the plastic stick that they are on. That glue eventually craps out from being continuously saturated in mineral spirits.

The problem with the high quality paint brushes, with a good density of hairs on the brush... is that they are expensive. We aren't talking the 'el cheapo' cheaper by the dozen type paint brushes. The cheap ones continuously have hairs or bristles coming out of them and sticking to your paint job.

The one value of the white high density roller is that the foam has a proven track record or history of not disintegrating or deteriorating during the course of a paint job. So that eliminates the changes that part of the roller will find its way sticking to your fresh paint.

Other then that... the chap was basically following the $50 paint job that has been pretty heavily explored and discussed during the course of these three threads dedicated to the topic.

His car looks excellent at the end of his efforts and except for the glitch he encountered on the bumper from not sanding properly, he seems to be giving the whole project two solid thumbs up... even after his one year update after a snowy winter.

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