TECH: Paint Without Spending A Fortune

thats awesome! thanks for posting this.

always spray in a clean dust free environment haha - 2k is great. i can live with the odd kamikazee fly in the paintwork.

your not good your gifted..for the first time....man you should go pro

thanks man, thats very cool of you to say.

thats the same gold that i used on my frame hahaha, i used chroma base for the black though. and didnt spray the falke as heavy so you see more of the black. you did a stellar job dude! one important tip to make your paint job last longer is: never put body filler straight on metal. metal holds moistier in nauturaly. wipe the tin down with some solvent which will allow the majority of the water to evaporate. let the tins sit for a white then spray a sealer down. then apply the filler. what happens is this. you mix up the filler, when you mix up the a and b side a chemical reation occurs and that produces heat. if you have that heat right on the metal you will get condensation that forms under the filler and ontop of the metal..... that basicly starts you out from day one with potential rusting issues. ever wonder why on a shitty body fill job the bondo pops off and there is gnarly rust under it, thats why. soooo just make sure you never have direct filler to metal contact. IE: spray the sealer, lay the skin coat down, sand, re seal, if more filler is needed re apply, re seal, prime, paint, clear, etc.

just a little tip, it doesnt take much time but in the long run it will help.

Holy smokes batman, this whole thread has got me convinced to try my own paintwork; I was all caught up with the idea that without a 700 dollar gun it was gonna come out looking like arse.

awesome job. thanks for sharing. makes me wanna try it!

Nice pointers, filled in some blanks for me as well. I'm really into spray-bomb and brush work, this has inspired me to delve into my painting hobby a bit more.

How long do you wait before taking off 1/4" tape. I'm gonna try some paint with four colors and a lot of lines. Got some 1/8 and 1/4 3M tape to do some swirls and such. Any advice?? Anyone??

thanks guys, im glad this post is helpful.

ive left the tape on until the paint dried only when ive sprayed really light coats. if you go heavy, you want to get the tape off while its wet so you dont tear you paint once it skins over. that thin tape also pulls and shrinks with time and with heat, so thats another good reason to get it off quicker. this is only from my very little amount of hands on experience, im sure theres way more to it than that.

Originally Posted by WOMPY

How long do you wait before taking off 1/4" tape. I'm gonna try some paint with four colors and a lot of lines. Got some 1/8 and 1/4 3M tape to do some swirls and such. Any advice?? Anyone??

i've done it both ways but i agree with the post above me, if its laid on thick you dont wanna let it dry on the tape, either way you usually get a bit of shit stuck to the tape but just try to pull the tape off in an across motion not a out motion, if that makes any sense... haha but usually i'll go for it when its wet cause then it just kinda ripples if anything and there is less chance for flaking/chipping like if you were to wait till its fully dry.

Cool!!!
I'll be spraying sometime in the next couple weeks when the temp climbs back up to the 70's.
This a coloring book rendition of what I'm doing. In no way do I want to hijack this thread.
Any advise on color spray order for something like this?

thats a nice rendering, and always a good idea to draw it out first. with my amature experience, i'd say black base, gold, purple, then silver. although i'd be tempted to lay down the silver over the black, and then tape off the gold and purple.

are you gonna do any airbrush work?

That's awesome man really good work! especially for your first time. I would like to do this one day.

that's the thing that always screws with my head is the colour sequence. Plus when you start trying to lay lace and metalflake it messes with my brain.

maybe If I start just painting shit and see how it comes out.

Awesome job. Very inspiring too.

wow! awesome write up. hope to paint mine myself and i can definitely use this.

WOW ! WHAT A NICE JOB ! I was planning on doing the samething for my spray boothe except i'm going to use staging frames so i can hang my frame and paint that too.

Looks killer,i also saw it in the horse and thought it was cool as fuck,good job man!!