has anyone painted a car before?

I did respray my Morris Minor last year and its a lot of work to do - especially the prep work:( I had the help of my neighbour who is a retired panel beater.

You will need a decent compressor as paint spraying uses a lot of air, also the laquer needs an activator which is dangerous to breath in so you will need an air fed mask so the compressor needs to power this as well, then you need to put the compressor outside so that its not sucking it the paint fumes direct to your mask. Ideally you should use the mask for all painting.

I was pleased with the finish I got but it was not perfect from the gun - I finished with some G3 compounding paste and an electric compounding mop. Mine was a solid colour so no laquer top coat, with these special finishes I think its more difficult to get a match across panels.

You cant use 1 pack laq, over Candy paints... Candy are 2K activated and it will all go pear shaped!!!!

http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/Nu-Agane-Car-Paints-01234-355990__W0QQ_armrsZ1 he has everything on there....

Teri;5303 wrote: You cant use 1 pack laq, over Candy paints... Candy are 2K activated and it will all go pear shaped!!!!

http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/Nu-Agane-Car-Paints-01234-355990__W0QQ_armrsZ1 he has everything on there....

you lost me a little there, allthough im hoping lee and mick (my mates i was on about) not to mention whatever company i order off, can help me with ordering the right stuff

basically im after a nice colour that i can try and get a good finish of by myself, i know it's going to be bleeding hard but i have the patience so im gonna go for it, thanks for the tip on making sure i have the right laquer tho, i thought laquer was laquer lol

I will get my other half to try and explain it to you tomorrow Adam. Its not that hard once you have the basic principles in place.
As long as you tell the guys you are buying the stuff what you are trying to achieve then you should be ok.. Be prepared for alot of hard work, swearing and wishing you had never started the job...

Well thats interesting, might save you a little bit of work lol.. I have just been looking at that site I gave you the link for and found this...

Q. Do I need to apply a clear lacquer over the candy colour?
A. None of our 2K candy colours require a clear lacquer applying over the top, but adding a clear coat over the candy will add some depth of shine and protect the candy coat when polishing the car.

http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/Nu-Agane-Car-Paints-01234-355990/Candy-paint-guide.html

If you are still thinking of Candy paint, I must admit I do like the Candy though and some of the colours are fantastic. If I was going to respray Beryl it would be in a candy colour..

Don't forget this one that was a DYI job with a pretty good result

[nomedia]http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD8Na04FuIE[/nomedia]

Craig

I helped my mate respray his bmw, in his dads sprayshop! (You could achieve a similar environment in a decent sized garage)

He had all the right compressor and stuff, the thing that shocked me was all the man hours it takes.

The prep is a good day or 2, then once its all painted and shiney you have to wetsand the whole car, then cover it in G3 and fire up the buffer. We didnt do the buffing as his dad wouldnt let us saying we would just rip all the paint off lol so he did it for us.

We resprayed my corsa a cpl of years ago.. Nice hot summer, outside in the back garden :rolleyes2: .. It took days to strip down all that had to be taken off, then all the body filling and rubbing down... Spraying wasnt too bad.. I spent the next cpl of weeks on and off rubbing down the paintwork. We had put metal flake in to give a really nice metallic finish, but, the flakes didnt lay flat, so when you ran your hands over the paintwork it felt like sandpaper.... Oh and not forgetting the cpl of bits of wildlife that got onto the paint too lol..
But the overall finish was rather nice and was one of the most well known corsa's round here..... Well it was bright bubblegum pink :whistle:

Teri;5315 wrote: Be prepared for alot of hard work, swearing and wishing you had never started the job...

isnt that normal when working on a TF?... i didn't realize there was any other way lol

mgf_matt;5348 wrote: I helped my mate respray his bmw, in his dads sprayshop! (You could achieve a similar environment in a decent sized garage)

He had all the right compressor and stuff, the thing that shocked me was all the man hours it takes.

The prep is a good day or 2, then once its all painted and shiney you have to wetsand the whole car, then cover it in G3 and fire up the buffer. We didnt do the buffing as his dad wouldnt let us saying we would just rip all the paint off lol so he did it for us.

im expecting at least 3 weeks of work to do it, it'll take at least 3 days to drop the subframes and take out the interior, i didn't realize a "buffer" was needed...

i'm thinking a trip to waterstones is needed to see if i can find a book for a little background reading

cool info teri thanks, lacquer sounds like it might be a on the spot decision, i can imagine it looking good for some extra shine though

i still can't decide on the colour... ironically i dont think the colour i choose will matter too much, it's mainly i want something A: very different to the standard MG colours and B: something not too hard to work with (for this reason im sort of discounting flip paint)