looking good guys. i havent painted since my last update of painting the inside of the cab, firewall, etc.
However i have noticed that the inside of the cab needs one more coat to hide the previous blue.

Starting this weekend i am going to be working on the truck 100% again, i want to get that hting painted! SOoo tired of sanding though

looks good.. orange peel is minimal

the texture you see is just a few sanding marks. Since I thinned out the paint more it dried right away and has absolutely positively no orange peal whats so ever

And what brand and type of mineral spirits? I'm beginning to suspect my problems might be from the brand of low odor mineral spirits I used.

I'm using the odorless and I'm not having any trouble.

just put on another coat.

man you are almost done! must be nice!
also must be nice to have such a small car!

robogeek

What you have there is what we call here in the Great white north as.. Yankee injunuity

great job..

Youngster, you are doing a great job
What do your folks think? "Should have bought a bigger car for him"
I like it, have you given any thought to doing the fenders darker? Good look for a bettle.

Thank you 69dartGT. I came here almost a year ago as a kid who knew very little about body work and a vegue idea about painting, let alone with a roller. I just took my time, learned from any mistakes, and kept going until everything was perfect.

I did have to rethink a few things along the way, case in point using fiber glass patches instead of aluminum tape and bondo (what was I thinking!!?)

One of my favorite things about this method was the workability of this paint. With expensive automotive paint, after you spray it on once thats it, your done and can't go back to fix any mistakes. When your rolling rustoleum you can easily see any imperfections once the paint becomes reflective and quickely go back and touch something up, maybe a small ding that you missed before. Not to mention no smell, no over spray, fumes, etc...

I'm hopeing to drive the car durring senior year in highschool. My dream has always been to show up to the parking lot and stick out a little amongst the cookie cutters with a nice, respectible, painted bug.

Thanks to 69charger that dream may become a reality very soon

p.s. Two tone sounds good for my next bug project

I have a grandson your age, unfortunately he lives in another state or I'd have him involved in a similar project.
Still think a set of brown fenders (if the color was right) would look great on that car.

thats definatly food for thought, a light/medium brown on the fenders

it would look like a big root beer float

Is it possible to spray more than one coat of tremclad per day?

can you spray a coat and then wait say 30 mins to an hour then spray another?

or do i have to spray a coat..wait a day..wet sand.. wait another day then spray?

I don't think you can spray Tremclad, it wasn't designed for that, unless you mean the rattle can type. If you mean that stuff, yeah, you ought to be able to do two coats in a day.

When I rolled on my paint, I did two coats a day, and waited 4-5 hours between coats. I tried to sand the next day, but it wasn't always dry enough for my taste, so I ended up waiting more like 2-3 days before wet sanding.

Your mileage may vary.

Just to say in a way thanks to the community; I'll post my pics after using 10 Cans of RUSTOLEUM 's 2x PAINTER'S TOUCH SPRAY PAINT because of simplicity:

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BEFORE
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AFTER
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I did not get shine; but then again i only did 3 coats and did not do a final sanding nor polishing(the hood I experimented w/ rubbing compound but did not get results). When wet thou it looks really good.
Next time i'll try rollers

Sorry don't know why these are showing I tried to fix one but not luck. Tom

you can spray it for sure - we've used it for years on our race car chassis and roll cages. Its cheap, easy to fix every week, and the yellow/whites show any cracks after wrecks or weld failures.

Shine doesn't matter for that, but I'm sure it would sand and rub out with a long enough dry time. We spray it straight or 10% mineral spirits, depending on the temps. Most of our work is in the winter in a 50 degree shop...

Hey guys, my car is about 5 coats from being done and its about 40-50 degrees here in western new york. Can I finish my paintjob? Anything I should watch out for in the cold weather?

the paint might take a little longer to dry but other than that I don't think you'll run into any problems.

just got this in the the mail today



this weekend I'll be ordering the rag top so I can finnaly get this thing done and on the road!!

shiny new parts....

I'd use a little more thinner at those temps and give it longer to dry. If you can get some cheap infrared lamps that would help it along if its inside. Direct sunlight will also help a lot. 50 degrees might be 90 on the surface.

And the final dry time when your ready to start finishing - I'd give that as long as you possibly can.

Your other option is to add some hardener. This thread has some info on that..

http://www.rolledon.com/news-suggestions-f7/rustoleum-advice-t367-25.htm#3394

yeah, no kidding. I was tired of working with old dented swap meet/craigslist parts, so I thought I'd treat my self to something a little newer