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RE: Painting on a car?
April 3, 2021 at 9:14 am
(April 2, 2021 at 9:19 pm)Fireball Wrote: Do you have digital painting software? You can design something on the computer and have it printed on vinyl and applied to the hood. You can use urethane paint and an airbrush or two to apply your design directly to the hood if you don't have software. Look up "vehicle wraps" in you area to see what's available in vinyl. The beauty of the vinyl (if that is actually what it is) would be that you would have the whole design done and approved before the artwork went on the vehicle. I had a '68 Buick Skylark hot rod that I was going to paint with "true flames", but after inheriting another money pit ('70 Chevy 3/4T truck that we use to tow our travel trailer) I sold it before I got that far. I've painted complete vehicles and portions thereof in the past, but that airbrush work would have been a first for me.
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I don't have access to any of that stuff.
I think my incredulity at the start was because I am so unfamiliar with cars and car culture, I had no idea that taking a paintbrush to a car was even possible. But now that I know that it is, I will likely stick with that and just research the paints I need to use.
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RE: Painting on a car?
April 3, 2021 at 9:24 am
The only knowledge I have of painting cars comes from Maaco commercials.
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RE: Painting on a car?
April 3, 2021 at 9:36 am
Well, always a pleasure to see you stopping by anyway, @ Eleven . Heh.
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RE: Painting on a car?
April 3, 2021 at 10:44 am
(This post was last modified: April 3, 2021 at 10:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If you don't wanna go with a wrap or decal........
Acrylic polyurethane enamel, and you'll want to airbrush it, and then you'll probably want to apply another coat of clear to the entire body. You'll want to tent it at a minimum. It's a bigger pita than people might imagine. Nothing saying you cant just brush it on out in the driveway - but you'll be disappointed. Some of my earliest memories are in body shops. Child labor force for hand sanding, lol.
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RE: Painting on a car?
April 3, 2021 at 1:01 pm
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RE: Painting on a car?
April 3, 2021 at 1:38 pm
Just throw random handfuls of paint on the car and tell Dad you've become a devotee of Jackson Pollock.
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RE: Painting on a car?
April 3, 2021 at 2:01 pm
(April 3, 2021 at 10:44 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: If you don't wanna go with a wrap or decal........
Acrylic polyurethane enamel, and you'll want to airbrush it, and then you'll probably want to apply another coat of clear to the entire body. You'll want to tent it at a minimum. It's a bigger pita than people might imagine. Nothing saying you cant just brush it on out in the driveway - but you'll be disappointed. Some of my earliest memories are in body shops. Child labor force for hand sanding, lol.
Man, if I had a buck for every hour my dad had me wet-sanding cars when I was a kid...or scrubbing filthy engines with brushes and solvent.
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RE: Painting on a car?
April 3, 2021 at 3:21 pm
Thanks, you guys.
Yeah, it sounds like painting is possible but prepping the car for that type of painting will take some hard work. Or, I can just suggest to him to get it professionally done with a wrap or a vinyl decal printed.
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RE: Painting on a car?
April 3, 2021 at 4:19 pm
Prepping is 90% of the work.
You have natural talent and creativity.
But that won't necessarily translate well on a car.
Watch guys on youtube airbrish with their freaky skills.
Fireball, those people who can do real™ flames are just inspiring to watch!
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RE: Painting on a car?
April 3, 2021 at 4:37 pm
(April 3, 2021 at 3:21 pm)Five Wrote: Thanks, you guys.
Yeah, it sounds like painting is possible but prepping the car for that type of painting will take some hard work. Or, I can just suggest to him to get it professionally done with a wrap or a vinyl decal printed.
Meet him midway. Offer to create the design but have a shop do the work.
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