Has anyone here ever handpainted their exterior? I have to sand mine pretty well before I can apply some clearcoat. I have to go out and get somee 800 and 1200 grit sandpapar right now. I handpainted it because I stink with spraypainting, and I got really sick of looking at it gray (primer applied over the paint) and red (stock base color). I also had a great graphic idea, but it isn't finished yet. Maybe sometime I'll get around to pics and to getting the factory red paint so I can finish the running stripe...

 

You're joking right?

 

.... you mean with a brush? Or a roller?

Even a bad spray paint job would look better than painting it with a brush.

 

I don't know, a roller and some nice Glidden home oil base paint, you might get a nice flow out to it

Sadly, I've seen this more than once (not on an f-body though).

I'm not positive I want to know but, what kind of paint did you use ?

 

Only thing I had- it was the middle of April, and I rolled on some Rust-Oleum gloss black. It's coming out pretty good so far. Just a little more sanding to take away the orange-peel/roller effect, and it'll look pretty good. My neighbor said he had done the same thing with an older winter car he had. He did his with a brush. I tried to use spray paint, but more ended up on me and in one spot than did on the car. I still have yet to remove all of the runs from that paint. Although, it looks better when you do it with a paint pad than with a brush and a lot of paint thinner... I used the gloss black on something I had before and its decent in terms of scratch-resistance, and it definitely keeps the rust away.

 

That poor poor car...

 

It's only temporary. I had to do something besides drive it around in 2/3 primer and one third base color. The only things that were left red were the front fenders and the passenger's door. I'm going to attack the paint similar to the way the rest of you guys polish your wheels and engines-one grit at a time. I'm up to 400 on the hood and haven't started the rest yet, the engine conked out on me.

 

I still think you would have been better off with spray cans. You can do a good job with them. I can't remember who it was but they painted their IROC hood with cans and it looked awesome. The time you are spending sanding would be better spent sanding spraypaint than interior latex.

 

Spray painting your car out of cans will do much better than painting with a brush. I have seen how that turns out.

First off house paint will not last as long as automotive paint. It doesn't have the heat resistance. Secondly, you would have brush strokes all over your car. It will look BAD. Not bad as in badass but bad as in not cool OMG why would someone install a wing that large on a Civic bad.

Rattle can jobs properly masked and done correctly will look cheap but not nearly as bad as what brush strokes would look like.

 

It's not latex based. It's oil-based Rust-Oleum that's made for high heat. And I am absolutely no good at spraypainting. ANd like I said, it's only temporary until I can have it done professionally. And I did it with a roller, which looks just like orange peel, so I hope it will come out better once I sand out all of the roller strokes. And actually, I saved money doing it this way. I paid $30 for three quarts of gloss black when it would probably take me a whole case of spray paint to make it look a thousand times worse than it is right now, with runs and junk all over the place, at probably $50+. Using a paint sponge pad works a lot better than rolling does. Besides, rolling is a lot faster than spraying, and it goes on thicker, which gives you more paint to work with when sanding, so you don't end up repainting the entire vehicle when you sand the runs and sags and junk out of the paint. I had the entire car done in about 20 minutes with a PaintStick and the paint, whereas it would have taken me a whole hour to do even the hood, rather nastily, with spray paint. And it was going to rain that day, too, so speed was key. The paint dried just before it started to cloud up.

 

Well, some people are just plain bad with spray paint (like my buddy..) and at least you're making an effore to hide the fact that it is applied in an odd fashion. The main thing is if the primer was going to be on for an extended period of time, the paint has at least help seal it from the elements somewhat. Sometimes ine hs to work with what you've got. Consider it good sanding practice

 

Mask off the parts you don't want painted. Then spray with even thin coats. It's not hard. The results are going to be better than brush stroke everytime. Better to sand out a few runs then try and cover a whole car with orange peel. It's just my opinion, you can do what you like but I wouldn't do it to my car.