Great rattle can paint, Krylon Options

[Randal]

If you're going to get a rattle can for any paint work, try the new Krylon one with the blue tip. I asked the TS guys at Krylon and they said all cans should now have this tip - as they've been manufacturing nothing else since January.

Anyway, IT PAINTS GREAT! Much bigger pattern, so you don't have to keep going over and over again and setting yourself up for runs.

You can also adjust this tip to change your pattern. Haven't tried that yet, but will shortly.

http://www.krylon.com/press/press-releases...h-360/index.jsp

I've always liked Krylon as it holds up. Also like Rustoleum, but that stuff is, IMHO, very hard to paint, especially on wheels.

[byndbad914]

yeah, I more or less buffed it out - I am no auto body guy in any way, shape or form and frankly had never buffed anything out before this car, but since it is a racer that gets chipped like crazy I figured not a big deal to just go for it and touch ups are easy. I borrowed my buddy's $20 Harbor Freight buffer, bought some rubbing compound and went to town - in the end I think it turned out really well.



I had just put the lightened early doors on so they weren't fully buffed yet in these shots (still aren't, been lazy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)) and if you look close enough you can see where I took some of the green off over-buffing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

There is about 9 coats on this car. I laid three down, did a sand with 800 IIRC, laid down three more, sanded with 1K grit, then two or three more, let it dry, then wet sanded a bit with 2K grit and buffed away with rubbing compound, then laid down a coat of wax. Total cost was around $150 not including rubbing stuff, just rattle cans (about 30 of 'em at $5 each IIRC).

Buffing the semi-flat black and the ultra flat green created a cool sheen I was going for - it worked out even better than I had thought it would as I have a sheen but no glare off the hood when tracking the car.

JP is totally right about not painting over it later - it needs to come completely off to do that. I intend to only race it so I will be Krylon for life. If and when the day comes I sell it, the car would need to be taken down and straightened out anyway if that person were so inclined. I, frankly, didn't make it ONE day before the paint was chipped up on the track here in CO so seems foolish to put a nice job on it.