Pictures of DIY paint jobs...bad ones if possible...

73sleeper · Post by **73sleeper** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 5:36 pm

Just curious to see how they came out. If you have pics of ones you painted without a lot of prep work, those would be awesome...

Thanks...
Kyle

Chris V · Post by **Chris V** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 6:06 pm

Define a lot... If you seriously don't expect to spend much time on the bodywork don't bother buying a nice paint or anything special, 'cause it'll look just as good in spray paint. This is after a bit of bodywork, though still didn't feel it deserved a real pain job, so I spent <$40 on Rustoleum paint. I'd rather do it again right and feel better about using real paint.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:51 am

Heres my DIY paint job with a LOT of prep work (and some bodywork/painting experience). The painting itself is about 20% of the end result, like Chris said... its all about the prep!

Gary

All_talk · Post by **All_talk** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:54 am

I hate when it doesn't automatically sign you in (I'm the guest above)

Gary

Air-Cooled Head · Post by **Air-Cooled Head** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 4:08 pm

Gary, that looks good to me.

Like Chris says, if you ain't gonna do the prep, just get rattle cans @ Wal-Mart.

A good paint job is 70% prep, 5% spraying, 15% post-spray work. The remainder is 5% for your level of skill at doing all of the above, and 5% quality products.

If you're good at prep, and prepared to do the post-spray work, you could let Ray Charles spray it.

73sleeper · Post by **73sleeper** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 3:28 am

My situation most likely calls for rattle can paint, since I have to have this car painted as soon as possible. Anything looks better than the codition itis in right now. I'm just lookin to attack the rust with some etching primer and then cover the whole car with one color, even if it looks pretty amatuer.
I don't have the time to do all of the prep work necessary for a show-quality paint job, and I really don't want a show quality job.
So...rattle cans is what it's going to be...(sorry).

How many cans will I need to paint the whole car?
Is there a place online with a big selection of lots of aerosol colors?

THANK YOU!!!

Kyle

Capn Skully · Post by **Capn Skully** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 9:44 am

This car was painted with Rustoleum with low prep. The owner calls it a 20 foot paint job. Looks good from 20 feet.

deac · Post by **deac** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 1:46 pm

Here's my first paint job.

I sanded all the original paint with 220 and completely removed all the surface rust from the primered spots. I then used filler and smoothed the welds from when the PO had the rust repair done.

Then I sprayed it with 2 coats of urethane primer/filler and a guide coat. I sanded off all the guide on the "flatter" areas (doors, 1/4 panels, hood, etc.) by wet sanding with a block and 400, but got lazy and used a d/a for most of the rest. I am glad I did this, because it exposed a lot of low spots I never would have seen.

After that I put another two coats of surfacer and sanded the whole thing down with 600 on a d/a. I had sanded through to the original paint in a couple of spots, but by this time I was pretty frustrated, and went against the suggestions of some friends and sprayed the color coat on the spotted primer. The color coat went on, well, let's just say it was my first paint job. I put about 3 THICK (think runs/sags) coats on. The shine and depth is very nice, but due to rushing and not having a good space, there are both runs and dust a-plenty in the paint. I'm still color-sanding and compounding, but it's coming along nicely.

I tried to get a shot of the most severe orange peel I got from uneven spraying on some of the tougher contours