DIY painting

[northwind]

The trouble here is that the SV's candy paint isn't a solid colour- the final tone is decided partly by the colour of the paint but also by the base coat, which means you need to get exactly the right amount of paint on. This is incredibly hard, unless you know what you're doing it's very unlikely to happen, even getting even coverage of a candy is hard enough without making it even and right.

It is difficult to get the right colour when you are only painting one panel, thats why when you paint cars you loose it through the next panel so that you cant see it as much.

i would just make sure that you get the closest match as possible when the paint is mixed and make sure it is even when you apply it, making sure you get the same overlap each strip of paint.

I do a 50/50 overlap

Get to Autopaint International for paint, I've painted a full (naked) bike and a few car panels over the years with rattle cans.

The stuff from Autopaint is excellent. They mix the normal paint you'd get for a spraygun, then thin it for aerosol use and blast it into a can. You get loads more paint in the can, the coverage is awesome and the quality of the end finish is far superior.

It's a bit more, maybe £10-£15 a can, but at the end of day it's better to pay a bit more for paint than do it twice. They can also sell you other things like a good primer, tack rags, thinners, cutting compounds etc. and also offer advice...which Halfords never will. The advice is worth £100's in future sprayshop savings!