About to go on a painting spreeeeeee

wh1te370z

So Ive had my car for alomst a month now and i cant take it being "stock" looking. so i want to paint the front fangs, rear valance, and the spoiler black. now i dont have money to start throwing at a body shop to do it.

Ive only used a spray gun like twice and was only fooling around with it. Now how do you guys feel about rattlecan paint? good idea? Bad idea??

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kenchan

if done correctly they can look very nice. especially matte paints are easy to do, just keep a good 8-12 inches when you spray.

gloss is a bit harder as you need a wet coat at the end and requires polishing afterwards.

The Jewbag™

Everyone on the euro scene uses Plasti-dip. People on myg37.com are starting to get into it as well. If you're painting it matte black I highly recommend you using this, because if there is any error you can literally just peel it right off. Google Plasti-dip.

ClemsonWill

In my opinion this is awful risky. Once you mess up the stock paint it can be very expensive to get it fixed the right way.

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wh1te370z

looked into this stuff. and it seems pretty cool. Def going to try it on MY SISTERS CAR haha. she has a 2000 saturn. ill paint a huge line across the front and tell her it comes off lol

on a serious note i think im going to give it a shot. seems like a cool idea.


I know. i know i have a steady hand but one mess up and thats it. My buddy brought up a good point. if i do mess it up ill just bring it to a body shop and have them fix it. i know a couple kids that paint but i hate asking favors. and if it comes out bad you have to yell at your friend lol. hopefully this plasti-dip will work out.

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Cmike2780

In all honesty, it will cost you more to have to fix something than doing it right the first time. The rear valance and front fangs are less of a risk since you could always buy an overlay to cover up your mistake, but I would have to say no go on painting the wing. You'll see your mistake in direct sunlight and that area sees a lot of traffic from closing the trunk. Even done by pro, rattle can's don't come close to a spray gun finish. I think a body shop would have to strip "your mistakes" off before they can apply new paint. I would leave the wing alone.

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The Jewbag™

I played around with Plasti-Dip and the fact that you can f@ck up and basically just peel it off is really appealing to me because I am not the best painter. I missed that day in kindergarden.

wh1te370z

Yea thats true. i thought the black spoiler looked pretty cool. i didnt plan on painting that for a while if i did it. if the plasti-dip really works how they say it does and you can just peal it off im def gona try it. ill have nothing to lose lol

Haha... what did you paint? out of curiosuty

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Slynky

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wh1te370z

So i decided to try the plasti-dip stuff and let me tell you it works awesomee. first i tried 3 coats on a plastic bucket and let it sit for a half hour and it peeled off with a bit of picking at it. and it was only two coats. so then after dinner last night i got to taping off my car and tried the rear valance. came out awesome. I did like 7-8 extremly thin coats and it looks great. only thing is that since its a little rubbery the paint sticks to the car and the tape so i got some rough edges in some places, so i need to find a way to get rid of that. but other than that it worked and looks great. heres some pics.


Bucket


here is an idea of the texture.


heres the finished product.

I give plasti-dip

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Cmike2780

Looks good. Use an xacto knife around the edges before you peel the tape off. Just enough to score the plasti dip. Don't use too much pressure or you will scratch the paint underneath.

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wh1te370z

I actually did that but idk how hard i have to push to get through it. now if it was vinyl id be able to do it perfect lol.(family has been in the sign buisness since the 60's lol). it looks ok for now. ill give it another shot sooner or later.. i think im going to try the fangs today. i also think i might try the wing sometime this weekend to so how it looks and if its ugly ill peel it off lol

This stuff is great to see how stuff would look. because if it looks bad u can peel it right off. this is a bad thing for me bc i like to experiment and knowing that it will come right off.... my cars in trouble haha

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ClemsonWill

It looks like it came out pretty good. Let us know how it holds up.

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Joka4411

looks nice, But Iam too scared to try it, call me chicken.

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christian370z

That looks perfect, almost exactly like I would like it to look on my car. I am debating on going with vinyl or using plasti-dip but my end goal is to have the fang and rear valence looking like yours.

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