Painting A Car By Brush...

[cluffy]

Eyup folks, just wondering if anyone has or attempted to paint a car by brush / roller. Just been thinking about it over the past few days ad my focus 2001 is looking tatty and scratched and dented in places, and the arches are rusting. its not worth a respray and i looked into vinyl wrapping as a 'cheap' option only to find itd still cost in the region of £1000 for a basic wrap. been reading up on it but there doesnt seem to be a definative way to do it, theres the odd thing on youtube but it seems to be mainly pickups which dont look too bad if their rough looking. I know the finish isnt going to be anything too great but just for the point of being able to touch it up whenever etc i think it might be worth a thought.

Any thoughts / horror stories / good things on the subject?
Danny

[WeegieBlue]

I took the lock out of the door of my E reg Nova and filled it, sanded it and them spray canned it. Looked fine. If you were right close you could tell but it looked great from a distance.

[aarond]

have a look here mate http://www.rickwrench.com/index79master.htm?http://www.rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint.html

i was considering for my mini then got spray painted for cheap :)

[cluffy]

have a look here mate http://www.rickwrench.com/index79mas...llarpaint.html (http://www.rickwrench.com/index79master.htm?http://www.rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint.html)

i was considering for my mini then got spray painted for cheap :smile:


That looks pretty good, wouldnt think you'd get those results from painting by hand. I was reading up and aparently rolls royce used to paint their cars by hand so there must be a way to get a really good finish to it, im not too fussed about a perfect finish, just something that looks pretty decent and i could touch up now and then, and if theres a dent, just fill it and paint over etc.

[maviczap]

My dad did once, painted our old VW Beetle with red paint. Looked okayish :rolleyes:

Still failed the MOT!

[benji106]

My brother sprayed the bumper of his focus with rattle cans, if you spend some time prepping it, sand down between coats etc. you can get a reasonable finish. once he had finished and give it a polish, it looked fine, not as good as a pro job obviously.

[Whyte25]

A guy i used to work with went down the self employed route of being an owner driver from paye, when he bought his van he bought an old royal mail one (red) when he turned up for his 1st day they neglected to tell him it had to be white - doh ! He went out and bought some brilliant white dulux and painted it - it didn`t look too bad compared to some of the vans on the road but it did the job, and it never came off when he washed it.

[NTECUK]

There are paints specific for this . Serch the vw van forums they have mega posts about it

[Littlepeahead]

My former boyfriend's great uncle painted the family saloon with a roller. Poor chap had dementia so he wasn't allowed to drive it any more and in his mind addled state he seemed to think that using Dulux magnolia emulsion was just the thing. It then rained so the whole thing streaked too. Years later the family can tell this story and laugh but at the time it wasn't so funny.

[me3987]

I don't think that would really work would it?

[timwilky]

In days gone by, coach painting was an art. purpose paint and brushes. and extremely good quality of finish for the time.

[Viney]

Eyup folks, just wondering if anyone has or attempted to paint a car by brush / roller. Just been thinking about it over the past few days ad my focus 2001 is looking tatty and scratched and dented in places, and the arches are rusting. its not worth a respray and i looked into vinyl wrapping as a 'cheap' option only to find itd still cost in the region of £1000 for a basic wrap. been reading up on it but there doesnt seem to be a definative way to do it, theres the odd thing on youtube but it seems to be mainly pickups which dont look too bad if their rough looking. I know the finish isnt going to be anything too great but just for the point of being able to touch it up whenever etc i think it might be worth a thought.

Any thoughts / horror stories / good things on the subject?
DannyDone it years ago. You used to be able to buy proper hand paint for cars that dried really slowly. It always looked hand painted not matter what. Just do it in a wind free environment, like a garage. You could cut it back using an aggresive coumpund after.

[NTECUK]

I had a winter hack car . Needed a bonnet grill etc. Got a yellow one rollerd it with white emulsion let it dry and lasted just fine.

[mikerj]

Unless the Focus bodywork is absolutely knackered I really wouldn't bother painting it with a brush or roller, I can almost guarantee it will look worse than it does now unless you are prepared to invest a LOT of time and effort into the job.

Buy or borrow a polisher and cut the original paint back - it won't remove very deep scratches but it can make an otherwise neglected car look pretty good.

[cluffy]

Cheers for the posts guys / girls, ill have a think about it for now. initially starting it seems a bit daunting because once its started it'll have to be finished i suppose, and if it all goes breasts up then it might not be good, But then again it'd be a gamble as it might look better than it already does.

Danny

[Mrs_giggles]

unless your going to invest in prober time and effort dont do it my grandad tried to paint over scratch on his new ish landrover and it looks ****.

how bad are chips and scratches? cant you use that stuff they advertise on tv to get rid of it. it helped on mine!!

[Lozzo]

I painted a Mr Bean Mini (was earmarked for the film but never used) with a roller and Do-It-All red metalwork paint. My son who was three at the time painted the roof black for me the same way. It came put very well considering.

There's tagged pictures on my facebook pages

[yorkie_chris]

Talk to electro's mate about getting it sprayed. A bodge job looks worse than tatty OE paint.

[dirtydog]

A few people have done it with rustoleum but it does need cutting back afterwards to get a reasonable finish.

Personally I wouldn't bother

[cluffy]

how bad are chips and scratches? cant you use that stuff they advertise on tv to get rid of it. it helped on mine!!


Its not just scratches, theres small dents etc all over it. dont know if its worth the brass to get it sprayed as its only worth £1000 ish anyway and ive been looking into getting another car, but when the cars you want are silly money i wonder wether to run this into the ground and then get something else as its been a decent motor for the past couple years.

[Bluefish]

A few years back we used to paint all our vehicles by hand, i had about 30 of them, mainly series 3 land rovers in rather fetching shades of green and black :D