Question about interior painting, Where? Options

[bcelica555]

Sorry if this has been asked before but I was having trouble finding it. I've been looking for awhile now at painted interiors and I've seen plenty of pictures and think i finally decided on what colors to do and what parts to do. I was wondering if some people could tell what kind of paint to use. What brands and stuff and were could I find these paints at? Also what prep work would need to be done if any in order for it to look good. Will I have to primer it, or sand it, or anything of that sort?

[uberschall]

i use dupli-color wheel paint, and topcoated with dupli-color wheel clearcoat.

you don't want to use anything really harsh to clean it because it could react with the plastic...i use diluted simple green and then tack cloth to remove any dust/debris.

i've never primed or sanded....and i've done it twice now with good results.

never painted anything besides plastic...if you were planning on painting vinyl (e.g. the door panels) you'll have to get some fancy paint that is flexible when it dries.

[soven]

The best one that I have used is "Duplicolor Vinyl Dye" . I painted mine from grey to silver and then black again after I got bored of the silver. You can see the pics in my project thread.

[illneversellmyce...]

i used the intstructions pressure2 set out and it worked great, if you use plastic spray paint like most lazy people it will look decent but you will still have the old texture. The best way to do it is too take the parts down and sand them done smooth, a good bit of sanding, then use testors 3 oz model spray paint, can find it at hobby stores of wally wolrd. i used 3 layers primer, 4-5 color and 3 clear and every day someone asks me where i got my interior painted at
check out these threads
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showto...inting+interior


sanding is the key the smoother the better, and be sure to let the coats dry 15-20 min b4 putting another coat and let the parts dry overnight no touching no moving, i had my cat screw up one peice i had to redo

[illneversellmyce...]

http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showto...=painting+vinyl

http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showto...=painting+vinyl

[vsideboy]

I used diluted washing up liquid to clean the pieces, dry off with kitchen roll or old t shirt or something.
The paint I used was normal car exterior paint.
2 light coats of primer allowed to dry overnight, 2 or 3 coats of Red (think it was an audi red tbh) again allow to dry a couple of days and a few coats of clear, allowing to dry a couple of days.

since then I have learnt that if spraying an exterior it is best to spray the clear within an hour of the last colour drying (drying the colour off with a hairdryer) Supposedly this is so the clear bonds better to the colour, but as we are spraying internal parts I don't think its as much a necessity so spray it in the time that you have. If it is a weekend then thats fine. I would:-

Wash and Dry (maybe dry with hairdryer rather than a cloth)
No sanding as with a few thin coats you get colour coverage and still get some texture.
2 light coats of primer
3 light coats of colour (as many as it takes to cover all the primer)
3 light coats of clear.

All coats will be dryed with a hairdryer before the next one is sprayed.
Only spray light coats otherwise it will probably run and look crap.

Dan

[Negative]

Do all that prep if you want to. It couldn't hurt but all I did was use Duplicolor Caliper paint in gun metal [about 3 thick coats - dried about an hour inbetween] and then 2 coats of the Duplicolor Caliper Paint Clear Coat and it is perfectly smooth. The trick was to let the coats settle into the texture and dry between coats with the parts more or less level to the plane of the table they dried on. Way less work with the same results.