Art & Inspiration brush/spray can paint jobs

This is the finish I'd like to have on my '50 Ford sedan.

 

Here's my 29 on 32 rails. Primer rustolium then.
Painted with won shot. It was rolled on first and then painted with a brush. You can barely see the brush strokes if you look close. And The paint job has held up awesome of more than 10 years.

 

Sounds like a solid plan to me!

 

Small foam roller and Rustoleum.
'73 GMC motorhome

 

That was a lot of rolling.....

 

Just saw this old thread. Put 4 new United Pacific steel fenders and a front splash apron on my deuce pickup and painted them with Rustoleum XL gloss black. They turned out perfect. Also put on new hood sides and tailgate and had a local paint supply store mix the pant for them and put it in aerosol cans, base coat. clear coat. They also turned out great. I have a friend who is finishing up a 29 Ford panel delivery entirely painted with Rustoleum XL green and black. After it dried a month he sanded and buffed it Looks like a really high dollar paint job.

 

I just painted a couple spots on my 49 with a spray can. I did have the paint matched and mixed, then put in a aerosol can. Does that still count?

It's not a 100% perfect match, but the original paint is two decades old and was made by mixing existing paints together. I'm impressed that my paint supply guy got so close. I'm going to wet sand it and give it a quick buff. Maybe it will match better then.

 

Story I remember from 'back in the day' a Minnesota Viking pro football player wanted his custom car painted and fell in love with a color of nail polish his wife used so he ordered a few cases of bottles of the polish for the painter to use on his car.

 

I hope they didn't use the little brush in the lid.

 

Me too! My guess is they emptied the bottles into a painting cup and sprayed it?

 

One would hope but there are reasons the Vikings have never won a super bowl.

 

True.

 

Nail polish is great for model cars. Generally buy 2 bottles, thin it with lacquer thinner or a hobby thinner. I cannot envision doing a whole car with it . But you can't argue with success. NP is essentially nitrocellulose lacquer. Since it goes on opaque, the color has to be "built", aka many thin coats. It does flash-over quickly.

 

I have caught a hella buzz from spraying it on model cars...

 

Good old lacquer! Illegal for cars in Calif. But then, most everything is illegal there!!

 

Hello,

It was my young teenage job to take care of my older brother’s cruisers and fast cars as they came into our driveway weekly. The contributions were donated as a return for taking me where I wanted to go for basketball practices + games, friend’s houses, the junior high school fields and gym for football practice and games, etc. Since my brother was just sitting around, I was hard at work. At first it was just detailing and keeping the car(s) clean.

Then as I got better and in his eyes, more reliable, without any complaints, I was given the task of masking off his steel wheels for painting. So, I had to take each wheel off and in our backyard garage area, a large canvas tarp was used for protection. The basic stock color rims were painted black to start off. Despite the Impala being black, the rim color was not black due to the stock factory appearance look was full chrome hubcaps, so for the factory, they could use a silvery color to act as a outline for the full size hubcaps. Those full size hubcaps were the first to go the same week the new 58 Impala drove into the driveway.

Over time my brother’s idea of me being the kid that does all or most of the menial work on cars was good for me. His 51 Oldsmobile sedan also had several different color steel rims, before I installed the final Moon Discs all around. The rims were painted silver (over the stock pale yellow original color) to see if it looked good with the Moon Discs. But eventually, the black was used and now the Moon Discs stood out with whitewall tires or blackwalls.

Jnaki

The Impala had more color changes on the rims. Due to different small hubcap look and or no hubcap look. It was my brother’s car, I was just the maintenance/doing stuff, kid to pay for his own transportation ideas and locations.

By the time I started driving, my choice of colors was silver. During the high school years, sometimes it went back to all black. I even got good enough for my friends to ask me to paint their rims. Free hamburger/fries lunches and drinks were tasty treats, after each spray job.

Note:

One year, in high school, we left campus for lunch and when we got back, our parking space directly in front of the school was gone. Those prime spaces with automatic theft control due to the direct glass windows from the high school offices and classrooms, facing the parking spots were the most popular ones to grab early in the morning and our cars were relatively worry free all day and into the early night after sports team practices.

But, after we got back from our lunch off campus, we had to park in the next block over in front of some houses. The street was not able to be seen from any part of the school. so, when we got back to the Impala after school, some idiot kids had put mud on the sides of the rear quarter panel and there were swirls on the black paint. I told off the stupid young mother and those kids were clueless as were their mom.

So, I had to take the car home, have the power spray booth take off the mud without more rubbing and then ponder how to get those marks off. I had to use rubbing compound to take off most of the surface scratches, but the deeper marks took more super fine wet/dry sanding in small places. But, not, no amount of rubbing compound was going to take off the final scratches.

It was taken to a paint shop for estimates and they wanted to paint the whole rear fender and side panel. The cost and time were horrendous, so I decided to try it my self. I had already super fine sanded it almost smooth, but continued to do several more layers. Then when ready, it worked out that the curved 4 chrome strip area was the only area that needed some touch up spray.

So, I gently prepped the area and the spray lightly from several passes covered the remaining swirls and from far away, it was stock. From close up after several coats of Classic Car Wax and Cadillac Blue Coral Wax, it was as good as new and no one knew what I had done. despite my urges to tell my friends of my handy work, I kept it quiet until after I sold it to fund my college experiences.

Note2 :

After my foray into custom Buick Skylark wire wheels, that ended the color spray paints. But, I sold the Impala with one last black rims on blackwall tires for this final look to my friend who was in a class one year below our graduating class.

It was time to say good bye and the odd thing was, those rims were already painted black from the Buick dealer parts department. YRMV

 

Really works great for custom/hot rodded MATCHBOX cars!