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wheres the best place to get paint
« on: Nov 19, 2007, 06:40PM »
wheres the best place to buy car paint? i need to get metallic gold, blue pearl, primer

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Re: wheres the best place to get paint
« Reply #1 on: Nov 20, 2007, 02:21PM »
Prob a paint shop  :D nah but seriously where you located mate?? I got my paint for my vl from a place in brendale
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Re: wheres the best place to get paint
« Reply #2 on: Nov 20, 2007, 02:46PM »
i live in adelaide, but would consider ordering from interstate


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Re: wheres the best place to get paint
« Reply #4 on: Nov 20, 2007, 06:40PM »
Just a tip. Buy good paint, but buy expensive clear coat. The clear coat is what makes the paint.
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Re: wheres the best place to get paint
« Reply #5 on: Nov 20, 2007, 08:26PM »
iv already got my clear! just need the hardner for it

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Re: wheres the best place to get paint
« Reply #6 on: Dec 10, 2007, 04:34PM »
got your paint yert?
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Re: wheres the best place to get paint
« Reply #7 on: Dec 10, 2007, 05:13PM »
Just a tip. Buy good paint, but buy expensive clear coat. The clear coat is what makes the paint.

I hate disagreeing with people, but this is just not true.

Paint is just as important as clear, maybe more so. Some paints can lay down off of the gun really well and have good gloss straight away, an excellent example of this is COBRA BASECOAT or PROTEC BASECOAT, both are really simple to use and are reasonably forgiving to the novice painter, neither brand cost the earth either. House of Kolour paint is good, but only if you are an expert painter, use only HOK products i.e thinner's, primer and clear and and have the money to pay for it and the time to wait for it to come from the USA.

Clear's on the other hand don't need to be all that expensive, PROTEC have a clear pak (4 ltrs clear and 2 ltrs hardner, thinner's you buy separate, it is r198 from memory), it is reasonably priced (cheapest on a ltr for ltr basis) and is an excellent clear, most of the panel shops between Penrith and Windsor in NSW use this clear.

Mostly it depends on the painter, type of gun you use and what size nozzle, what paint you are using, air pressure from compressor, weather conditions, preparation etc etc. 

What sort of paint do you want, I noticed that no one bothered asking.
   I would stay away from acrylic paint as it can rub of if an abrassive chemical or petrol is spilt on it, although it is easy to cut back and make shiny again, this is why a lot of the trailer show cars (the ones that are built at a cost of $150 000+ and never driven except out of the trailer) are painted in acrylic, this is so that the owner's can rub them back quickly the night before a show so they look like they have just been painted. Acrylic is cheap and very very simple to use and mix though.

2pac is much harder to use if you are a novice, although it can be done with a tiny bit of pratice and patience first. 2pac is a lot more durable and wears/weather's better than acrlyic, it will not rub of with petrol or any other chemical except for brake fluid, but this is right across the spectrum of paints, it also cost's a bit more but is worth the extra outlay if you have the money. To paint a car, 4 ltrs paint and 6.5ltr (4 ltr clear-part a and 2.5ltr hardner-part b) PROTEC clear pak and assosciated thinners and hardner's, you would be looking at about $2000, give or take.

I would recommend using COBRA or PROTEC brand paint and thinner's and clear's simply because they are probably the most user friendly 'systems'.
    Do NOT use MOTORCHEM brand paint, if you need a touch up pot of paint the colour will not be the same as the MOTORCHEM tinter's ( concentrated colours that make other colour's, tinter's do not have good coverage but can be used if you put down enough coats) are regularly different to the last batch i.e royal blue in batch 2 may have a red tinge as opposed to royal blue in batch 1 for instance.

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Re: wheres the best place to get paint
« Reply #8 on: Dec 13, 2007, 09:49PM »
i use protec im waitin for them to ring me bak with how much they got left.

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Re: wheres the best place to get paint
« Reply #9 on: Dec 13, 2007, 10:31PM »
I obviously don't know as much about paint as Langers, but I do know that it's the preperation that counts, put the time into getting it straight before hand, otherwise it just looks like a bodge job.
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Re: wheres the best place to get paint
« Reply #10 on: Dec 13, 2007, 11:14PM »
langer is correct a good quality paint makes the difference. i tend to lean over to ppg because of the good coverage, if not i go SPIESHECKER. the benefit with ppg is you have a single pack system with a two pack converter. alot of people say dupont, but to tell you the truth i wouldn't go near it. i have had a bit of trouble with it in the past, but who knows it might be better now.. if you know any truckies that go to sydney  i can get you the paint at trade price. my father has been teaching me painting since i was little, as this is his trade and is a tafe teacher. quality paint hardner and thinners makes a difference. a good clear coat is vital. i wouldn't be skimping on paint unless your not keeping it. 

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Re: wheres the best place to get paint
« Reply #11 on: Dec 14, 2007, 10:03AM »
well the car body is going to be perfect coz one of my mates is a pannel beater