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*Honker*
Join Date: Jan 2022
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On Youtube there are various videos showing you how to spray your car with cans, many of these videos show a completed car that looks fairly decent, especially compared to how it looked before.
Take a look at some videos and check out the results. Try this before spending all your dim sim money on someone to do the exact same thing! Here's a quick bad can job that looks 100% better than it did before: Here's a couple more to look at: Good stuff. ![]() |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Ballarat
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Ive done one car with cans (wasn't mine and wasn't my idea) and I think we went through about 20 cans. Theyre near 50 bucks each at my local aswell. That was for a custom colour. By the time you also buy cans of primer, and the extra time to wet sand and buff, in my opinion it's a false economy.
I remember it sucking too because of how long it took to actually get the paint out of the can and onto the car. But, the cans I used were acrylic, and it did come up great at the end, but obviously not going to be as resistant as a normal 2k job through a hvlp gun, and if you have a compressor and gun (any man should), I don't see any advantage. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2010
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Welcome to the forum.
Listen to Jack91, YouTube genius will tell you a bunch of Horses**t that gullible people believe. The moment I heard Enamel, I stopped listening, been ther done that 35 years ago, never again. |
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Thailand Specials
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Centrefold Lounge
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Real men paint cars with house paint and a roller - check out this fine specimen we did:
![]() ![]() The gross lime green highlights, this baby shit brown haynes house paint, the black is that underbody insulation/tray paint stuff, all applied skilfully with a roller chefs kiss We ruined a Landcruiser Bundera, which apparently is quite valuable these days https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/det...-AD-17652759/? ![]() |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Nothing turns me off buying a car more than some bogan who’s taken to the OEM alloys with a $20 can of satin black spray paint.
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*Honker*
Join Date: Jan 2022
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Correct, I wouldn't touch the alloys with paint.
Black painted rims are garbage too. |
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*Honker*
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Primer about $25, then clear on top, and sandpapers, etc. It all adds up, more than I thought it'd be. Could have done less coats, but then it'd have to be done again next year most likely. Still, the home paint-job could be a viable choice if done right especially compared to most car respray shop prices I think. Look out for paints when they are on special maybe. |
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