SHARPIE
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ITSA Looks good... but for about the same money you can have automotive paint.
ITSA Looks good... but for about the same money you can have automotive paint.
I used a full 2 gallons on my single cab with two tone blue white. my main bit of advice is just as freebird said prep prep prep. make sure your gun is clean, paint is mixed well, never stop moving your hand until after you let off the trigger, wipe the surface down really well with a QUALITY thinner or acetone. I used a cheap thinner to wipe down the tailgate because I ran out of good thinner and the **** screwed it up horribly. the paint bubbled and ran and I had to redo it. other than that make sure to mask everything really good, and pay attention to coverage. The more you thin the paint the more shiny you can get it but also the easier it is to make it run so there is deffinately a tradeoff there. just take your time and dont get in to much of a rush.
The problem with cheap implement enamels is they just dont harden fast enough. That and they have almost zero UV resistance. Ive painted plenty of stock cars, off road type things with it, and it looks ok out of the gun, but a year later its faded bad.
It also doesnt set up NEARLY AS FAST, so its actually very hard to spray and get a decent coat down. For the little bit you save, its totally just not worth it. There are plenty of alternatives that arent that much more and will give a thousand times better results. The best by far is any sort of urethane, enamel is old hat....