Aaron, for what reason do you want a clear coat over a base colour?

You can buff a base colour up to a great shine, without needing clearcoat.

IMHO a clearcoat should only go over a metallic colour.

to protect the paint from chips whilst doing motorkhana's is esentially the reason.

Cheers

Aaron

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OK, but I think you will find that your black duco will look MUCH more scratched and marked, as the black under the clear will highlight all these imperfections in the clear. (imprefections that you WILL get doing Motorkhana's)

So just lots of coats of black is your suggestion. 2pac would be the option if i get it painted, it is harder yeah. But acrylic just lots of coats?

Cheers

Aaron

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yep. Each to their own....I was talking to a guy at a recent show, who had painted a Chev Impala in acrylic. Iw was amazing!!

He said he did a zillion coats, which was enough to cut it back heavily to get a super smooth surface to buff.

If I end up painting my GT, I will use 8 litres of colour, not 4.

how the hell can you put 8 litres of color on a mini?

i struggled to get 4 litres on, including painting inside floor and underneath


-Cam
P.S every car ive painted has been in 2pack, i use concept brand.. with either a concept top coat or a wattyl colorthane item.

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I used 5L on JAM

I had a similar dilemma (as some already know) but I had already purchased the 2k as I had someone lined up to spray...

I have done alot of research and spoke to alot of well known professional sprayer/beaters in the last week and the majority are still using acrylic!

I had to use Standox paint as they were the only company that had a code for my UK colour Was dearer but definately not as dear as $500/4L as someone previously posted..

i bought 4 litres of cncept hi-build, hardner and a 4kg tin of K&H bog.. came to $165 the other day... got 4 litres of colorthane post office red, hardner, slow reducer, thinners... came to $165 aswell

i like it!

-Cam

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Yep, low n'blown told me 8L of acrylic. He has used that a number of times building his show minis. Leaves lots of room to cut back and get a good shine.

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JAM,
As a novice considering my first attempt at spray painting, it's a genuine Clubman GT- Cadiz with navy interior, and I dont want to stuff it up.

A few questions.

If you put on 8 litres of acrylic laquer:

How many coats?
How much thinner etc do you use for each coat and do you vary the amount of thinning for different coats?
How do you balance all this paint with the requirement to keep the total paint coating thickness as thin as possible? As I understand it thick paint coatings are more susceptible to chipping and in some instance too thick a coating can actually change the definition of crease lines etc on panels.

Thanks in anticipation.
RonR

hey all

2 pac is by far the better choice, that is if your going for shine. 2 pac can be"thrown" on and get a reallygood shine
wheras acrylic takes time to get the shine.
the best two paints are standox and ppg. both are well worth the money. its not worth using the cheap paint.

im painting my mini in ppg base colour, standox krystal clear and primer

it will look schmick

cheers jamie

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1963morris 850
1965 solid side van
1994 rover racecar

Thanks again JAM,

Re the paint thickness bizzo, some/all ? body shops have some sort of thickness measuring device (electronic?) they use to determine this. A sort of development of the bog detecting magnet I suppose.
Not 100% certain but maybe important for the latest type paints etc.

Regards
RonR

I can't rmember the max thickness of paint (to long ago) but it is measured in microns, 150 seems to ring a bell, now the problem is if you try and make it to thick the paint will craze and blister, this is caused with acylic buy the thinners, every time you apply another coat the thinners sinks through the coats that are already there and if its to thick the top coats flashes off before the thinners has a chance to get out. 4-5 litrs is more tha enough to paint a mini inside and out, the old practice for show cars was to spray and cut and flatten between coats both undercoats and topcoats and keeps the paint thickness down to the required level.

Jon

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