Why pay MAACO $500. when you can do it for $50.00 Options

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The $50.00 paint job.
http://rickwrench.com:80/50dollarpaint.html

CCLIN914NATION

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It's a lot of work.

What you don't spend in the cost of the paint you make up for in elbow grease.

Looks pretty interesting. Sounds like it's actually the same amount of work as spraying the paint (minus the gun cleaning and compressor tuning). Even spraying the paint you still have do all the same prep work and sanding/polishing between nearly every layer you put down. A few things make this look a little more tedious actually... A. this guy uses 6 coats to build up the color. A basecoat/clearcoat would only involve one coat of base and maybe two of clear (besides all the primer prep. B. the roller method looks like it takes longer then spraying- as spraying actually goes pretty fast- and flash times of modern stuff have you preping for the next coat inside of an hour.

just as an update, that webpage was made back in October, and he had a 4 month update on a different page...

http://rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint-4mos.html

Four months isn't much to base results on. The thing I would be concerned with his method is the quality of the pigment in the Rust-Oleum. Pigment is the key ingredient to nice color and longevity (aside from some sort of UV component)... and nice colors require alot of it and it's not cheap. I would be afraid of Rust-Oleum fading from the sun. This guy is in Canada where there's very little sun most of the year... and the month or two that does have sun... it's at a very low and diffused angle in the sky. California desert sun is a bit different.

I bought a small pint of generic medium priced red automotive paint one time to do a valence (which ofcourse didn't see much direct sunlight) and after only 9 months it turned pink. Currently I'm painting my car silver and going for with the high quality Dupont ChromaColor System because with the amount of labor you have to put into any painting job- you're just shooting yourself in the foot if you cut corners with cheap stuff. Although, I am impressed by his results. Maybe for a beater/daily driver in a light-low-fade color like white would be fine.

Edit: The thing that does look easy about his method is the learning curve. Seems pretty simple overall. For my project right now- I'm having to do alot of studying, reading professional car painter advice forums, learning the tech sheets for all the materials, learning about gun tuning and air supply, ect ect.. It's not really all that difficult in the end. A newbie can get good spray results with like one or two practice sessions on random panels. But there is alot of studying to do inorder to understand the behavior of the chemicals and how to diagnose and treat problems before they ruin the whole thing.