Its cool if you want to spend a ton of money on a cheap paint job that takes like 2 weeks. Seriously, the Professor could build a radio out of a coconut in the same time. I sprayed a car with rustoleum in a few hours, for $18, and it was rad. Cheap aint $100. For that and a few bucks more I could get an actual Maaco job. With REAL paint.
It'll hold up just fine if you prep correctlly, get the fan tips sold right in the paint section of your local home depot, half lap the paint and watch it as it wets out... I had Krylon on the roof of my chevy for 5 years, polished it, waxed it and the only reason it came off was I cut back into the roof....
cool !!! the part that i'd like to re-paint with krylon, is the original paint that is worn (i'm pretty sure it's laquer). it woudl be the roof, tops of the doors, tops of the 1/4 panels, trunk lid and the rear splash pan (all the parts in red). i thought about doing it, but then thought it might look like crap because of the spray pattern. i had no idea about the fan tips that you mention. i have done paint before, and i know that prep is 90% of a good paint job. maybe i'll attack it with the krylon and see what happens. thansk for the tip on the tips...lol
Paint your hot rod with a roller? Well, I guess that's okay if you're one of those rich guys... the rest of us use a brush...
Here's the link I used for directions http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=2331682&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1
80 pages of roller painting thats been continued up to a part IV I think on moparts.com http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=2655425&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1 I'm a big fan of doing interior pieces with rattle can but I cant imagine anything bigger then that looking good, maybe if you go with flat black because flat paint is easy to use. looks like lBB41 beat me to it
I'm about finished with mine, just have to buff out the other side. I've got about 30 bucks into mine, small car, but was happy with the results.
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