for the people that are spraying the paint. how do you clean out the gun???

Just spray some mineral spirits through it when you are done, and wash out the cup with mineral spirits as well.

I wanted to take quick second to send out a Thank You to Exit1965 . Your in depth description of "wringing" out the roller and "wetting" the surface solved the running problem I had with my test piece. My second and third coats have gone on almost glassy. I will wetsand it with 600 tonight and apply my 4th coat. So far it's lookin' good. There is no way I could have figured out the correct method to do this without all of the help given in this thread!!

I wanted to post some additional info- I read a few pages back to put down an aluminum foil liner in the paint tray so you can just throw away the foil and have a clean tray- THIS WORKS GREAT! so i have been using the same tray for quite a few coats now.

I also found that if I wrap my roller up in aluminum foil it doesnt dry out at all (It dried out slowly in the plastic bag I stored it in before)and you can go right back to using it. I have started rolling the red on my car and put on one coat, waited 2 days then went to add a second coat and the roller was still nice and wet and soft. give it a try

As far as 2 tone jobs and tape- I have switched to the BLUE "easy Release" tape as suggested and I hope it works better than the green tape. The green tape did an excellent job of masking the areas I didnt want paint on and gave a nice crisp line but when I peeled it off it left ashesive on the car. It took a bit of work to get it off- Some adhesive remover, mineral spirits, then let it dry a little, then more mineral spirits. I got it all off but was too worried about damagign the black paint when I taped onto it so I switched. I'll let you know how it turns out- With any luck I will be done painting sometime next weekend.

Pictures soon- The car is looking really good with both colors on t, even though the red is still splotchy.

how can i get this color mixing rustoleum paint

could i get it mixing green and white or yellow and blue?

I'd go with white, green, and yellow. Start with a white base and add a tiny amount of green, then slightly more yellow. Then adjust it from there.

That is a cool color.

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Thats coat #1, I should have thinned it a TINY bit more bit its good enough... I plain to hit it with another coat tomorrow and wetsand it... looks pretty good as is though.

Just a couple pics of my progress. Light is not the best (plus its dark) and I have a lot of buffing and polishing (and probably more wetsanding) to go, but I think it looks okay so far. Hopefully will finish up this week and the weather will cooperate for some decent shots this weekend.

Here is my 1973 Ranchero Squire with Factory 351 Cobra Jet. Body is painted with a Mix of 2 parts Rustolium Gloss Hunter Green two parts Mineral spirits and one part Rustolium Gloss black.
The wood grain is a base of Rustolium Summer Squash bushed over with Minwax Poly stain. When I got the car all of the trim was painted blue.
Here is what it looked like before.

after





I would like to thank everyone here for all the detailed information that allowed me to do this.

here is a couple pics of the car with 2 colors on it... the red is still kind of splotchy. This is 4 coats of red, I will wetsand it now and then move on to more coats. Im getting excited to get it done!

oops- only one attachment per post- here is the second pic.

Hey Radio, TeHMike, and Big BS, those cars are looking great and the pics couldn't be more timely for me since I'm doing black on my car next month.I'm still playing with my test piece right now, Just put coats 4 and 5 on after a 600 grit wetsand, I think I'll put on one more coat before my 800 wetsand since I burned through a couple of spots with the 600. I'm sure most here would be bored with more pics of my Mower part so I'll wait and post a finished pic when its all done, I think after 8 coats. I recieved my Poorboys SSR2.5, SSR1, and EX-P via FedEx yesterday so as soon as i've got the painting done I'll polish her out and attach some pics. Keep on Rollin'!

Joe, That looks awesome.

I'm amazed at how good mine hood is looking after 2 coats and its not even wetsanded yet...


Before ANY WORK


2 Coats, Not Wet Sanded

oh man, Im having a slight problem. When I was prepping for paint I went over my hood with 400 to prep it for paint and I did that over bare metal. I was just out side wetsanding it with 600 and where the bare metal was the paint was coming off... What should I do now?

What I'm thinking will suck but I think I need to go crazy and remove all my paint and get everything level again and scuff up the bare metal with like 120.