Sanding tip: put masking tape on the edges and ridges of panels before sanding them. Saves much grief.

LanceB

don't tell them how you painted it until you get all the compliments bob

Bob D,
Gotta tell ya, loved your website. Seeing all the work you put into that old truck is inspirational. My hat's off to ya. You almost had me wanting one too, until you reminded me of the 9 mpg! LOL

I'm going to unstickie this we have so many replie I don't think it needs to be a stickie. I doubt it will fall by the side anytime soon.

Oh took the wife for her first ride in the truck, went to a local recycle place, the workers could not believe I rolled the paint job on.

If the thread dies due to not being a sticky, then it will be a good death , i thought it would die along time ago.

Every time i look at it i'm amazed and really glad i shared this with all you guys, and the results i'm seeing make it all worth it. This has to be the longest thread i've ever seen on any board, i never thought it would go this far and survive the haters.

I sprayed my speedster black today. I used duplicolor in the gallon can. It isn't rustoleum but is almost as cheap at $33 a gallon. It went on really nice with minimal orange peel. I could live with the slight orange peel in places but I did get some runs that I am going to have to color sand and buff. This was my first real paint job and was surprised how well it came out. The gloss and reflection is unreal. I used the hardener and recommend it if you spray but make sure you wear appropriate protection. I will try to post some pics tomorrow. Thanks charger for the advice.
Scott

Brightside gurus, what am I doing wrong here? I thinned out the paint at roughly 10%. This was the first coat. Basicall I'm getting tons of orange peal...perhaps it was just way too think of a coat?

I also tried marq's trick of running a spirts soaked roller over it, but it didn't seem to help much

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ok, tried the first 2 coats on a fender piece i had laying around. cleaned it, cut the rustoleum with mineral spirits, 50-50, rolled on, let stand for 15 min, then rolled it again to get off the bubbles...did the blowing on it trick (yea yea yea) let it dry. An hour later, put on second coat. Stopped there. It sat for about 6 hours and it wont rub off or scratch off with finger nail. Tomorrow, will do the first wet sand and 2 more coats. If it works, i am going to do my 68 camaro this way. I also spoke with a friend who says i should use the marine paint he used on his boat. This guy has painted a couple of hundred cars and says "yeah, you can use a roller, there is no overspray and prep is a lot less"....... here are some pics
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it has a nice gloss to it, you can see your reflection in the paint. still need to wet sand and then do coats 3-6

Spyhunter- yes, that is way too thick. Back about 123190283 pages ago I suggested people doing test panels should use a surface that is vertical rather than horizontal like a hood. I think if you tried to put paint that thick on a vertical surface like a door, you would see that it's too thick because it would run like crazy.

Dustin that looks good. I would suggest using some marine paint too..

So do you think it was simply my application technique or it wasn't thinned enough? I did have a few runs on it

I think its the application technique, there shouldn't be any runs when thinned 10%.

Im not sure what others are doing, but what I would do is push most of the paint out of the roller into the tray, and when I was rolling the car I would put a pretty firm pressure. That seemed to work for me to put thin coats on.

Here are some of the hood using brightside after two coats.

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another one

last hood one

and one of the fender

Kind of looks like my first coat, I only thinned to 10% the second and later coats I thinned until after I stirred and picked the stir stick up out of the panit I could count to about 10 then the paint would go from a stream to drops if that makes sense. The paint seemed to lay down better much less orangepeel and no rolls, I had to do a lot of sanding after my forst coat to get it to were I could paint again.

so when i wet sand, how much do i sand it? alot of paint came off. it was pretty smooth, applied coat 3, a little too thin, but coat four will be thicker....

i am going to get marine paint and try it too, hopefully they have deeper, richer blues

Here are pics of speedy. I think I will wait a few days and sand the runs and then about a month before I color sand the whole car. I recommend the duplicolor and it says it can be rolled. Here they are.

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