roller painted decklid, color opinions? (big pictures warning)

[eric wissing]

You know it has character. I like it. It won't be some trailer queen and people just might be scared to park too close it. Eric

[randroid]

50,

That looks slick for a cheepo-cheepo job and I, for one, applaud your efforts!

Well done, Lad!

Please post a brief synopses of why and when you changed methods and your overall opinion of each of their applications.

Thanks,

-Randy

[Guest 50Plymouth]

You know it has character. I like it. It won't be some trailer queen and people just might be scared to park too close it. Eric

That can be taken many ways. "Look out, that strange green Plymouth looks like it has rust and some paint runs, ..it might be contagious! ..Don't get closer Johnny!" I think I like it w/o some trim which is good because my trim was bad and I was missing front pieces. I really am excited to get some tires and exhaust on it. I used to have some old Mag 500 wheels I gave away for free along with an old dilapidated AMC Javelin. Hindsight, oh well they wouldn't fit likely anyway. I'm waiting for a shop to find something cheap to fit my mismatched rims, and my muffler showed up.

randroid,

Thanks for the kind word. First let me say if I could go back I perhaps would have at least use a good high build primer that could be sanded and help deal with the multiple paint layers on the front clip, but I was going cheapo. It'd still have all the dent issues obviously though initially. So, in using the standard Rustoleum as I did I was most pleased with HVLP while acknowledging my setup was inferior and limiting. My compressor can only do 8cfm max, is a smaller tank size 12gall. , and my HF gun is the one that requires the larger air supply, 10.5+ I think, it was a gift -HF has one that operates with around 7cfm or so. Obviously, I was pushing the limits quite a bit but the results are laid out here. A few posts back I listed what portion received what method. Nothing beats the simplicity of the old siphon high pressure sprayer but the over spray is just insane compared to even a bad HVLP. However, the traditional sprayer is/was much easier to achieve an ideal atomization with and I think easier to spray with myself. Rolling works just fine but takes a loooooong time (and I was in an admitable rush for a variety of reasons). If this work had occurred during a different cooler season when I had more free time I might have been able to try the whole car via rolling. I had troubles with how much I thinned my paint and getting the usual vertical surface runs. I am still curious to hear more from folks who backed away from sanding as much between coats and did a greater amount after good sufficient coverage. For whatever reason I think I had better results with mineral spirits than 1 small test run with Naptha in which greater orange peel occurred, but it was warmer and the surface had been in sun. When spraying rustoleum like other paints, a nice thin tack layer wait a short bit and then cover is what really works, but if you wait to long its not so good. Anyway, I had fun experimenting and it looks better than it did without breaking the bank too bad.

In summary, any of the methods done slowly could look decent, any of the methods really rushed or on bad or neglected body work will obviously show that. Basically, any of the methods would yield acceptable results the real issue was the surface prep below the applied paint. I had fun getting to try all three ways. If a guy just wants a cheap or temporary covering to make everything one color or whatever and has spray equipment then spraying rustoluem is the fastest, cheapest way. If someone wants to use rustoleum with less equipment and no over spray problems and has extra time, then rolling is worth trying out. To fight the temptation of incomplete work or cutting short on the # of coats people with certain personalities should perhaps do the car in portions so they can resist the temptation to stop too early. Someday I would like to see how this paint works by spraying with non-professional turbine HVLP units. I think that could yield results at least equal and better looking on a better bodied car than what you see above. Oh, I have yet to see what it will look like with a superfine sand and polishing now since that wasn't done, need to get to that on a test a panel soon once I find a r/o polisher.

Ryan