I spent the better part of a week reading and studying and making notes concerning rolling on "Rustoleum". I was fascinated reading the first 46 or 47 pages when the thread began and thought I was ready to proceed with my own paint job. I then learned that there's more than 100 pages further to read and skipping to the last few pages I find that there are other procedures and other products discussed.

I don't have time to read the entire thread on this matter and I would really appreciate it if someone would post the latest acceptable procedure and products that are now recommended for a "roll on"paint job from beginning to end.

I joined this site today because the people here are the most courteous and helpful on the Internet.

as far as the products go you can get great results with the simplest stuff, the car you see above is just plain rusto, odorless minneral spirits, and 4 inch foam rollers from Lowes.

its really all in the prep work and technique, the smoother you get the surface to paint on the better it will look. If you take your time you eventually get it down to a science, some of the older fellas might be able to explain the actual process a bit better. Happy rolling, and welcome to the forum

not trying to spam for another forum, but www.rolledon.com is dedicated to this stuff, and its better organized than trying to read though thousands of posts.

My method, and everybody's it seems is different. For one, because I have a largely flat surfaced car got better results with 6" rollers. I hate sanding and don't mind rolling so I used super thin coats. Others used less coats and more sanding.

The beauty of this method is its really foolproof. The idea is to build up a solid layer of paint, then wet sand and rub it out. How you get there really doesn't matter - its the labor you put in to make it look right that matters.

Other than the application method, its the exact same procedure we used to use back in the 70's and 80's with acrylic enamel auto paint

The bug looked so great thanks for always updating your progress shots.

its a bit but I just installed another fluorescent light in my garage, now I can actualy see what I'm doing on the right side of the car, lol.

just finished this last week. gonna let it sit all winter to let the paint harden before the final wetsand and buff.







started this this week.

looks SWEET!!

are you spraying it on?

nice, your results are awesome. Can't wait to see the black one out in the light, keep us posted!

WOW just WOW. what more can one say. WOW in such extreme that I plan to try this on my cars and see what happens.

One problem. I want a metallic color. How do I get this using rustoleum or brightside?

can I "ADD" metallic? I want a nice cobalt or sapphire blue metallic (think medium blue then shift just a bit toward light)

both brands have a blue I like but not metallic. Suggestions? maybe in a few years I will have managed to read the literally hundreds and hundreds of pages in this thread. (every random page I read is addictive!) so if this has been talked about already I would GREATLY appreciate a link to the section of the thread that handles this.

Thanks!

there is one guy with a mustang a while back who used metallic flakes, it looked alright.

But another guy who had this really nice Dodge drag truck that he painted hunter green, with the "aluminim" rusto paint added. It looked fantastic! and gives that affect your looking for. All you really have to do is make sure the paint is well mixed while your rolling it on and have the right amount mixed in..

hope this helps some.

last coat. now the sucky part. waiting for the paint to harden in the freezing cold weather so i can wetsand and buff and polish:)

what paint gun are you spraying the rustoleum with? also how much are you thinning to spray?

central peumatic or whatever the harbor freight gun is. its their slightly more expensive gun (like $70 lol). the first two cars i did like this i thinned 1 to 3 using white, but it was so cold when i did my supra that i had to thin it 1 to 2. the white seemed to run a little easier (even though it was mixed thicker) but the black shows every little spec of anything in it. once it is wetsanded its gonna look great.

that looks unbeleivable!

I'm planning on cheating a little and spraying the inside of my car for simplicity since theres so many strange shapes. So this info helps a bit

this is what I've been doing for the past week, stripping the interior and grinding away all the nasty glue and tar board.