| Main > Main Forum |
| painting! |
| << < (5/7) > >> |
| Franco B:
It sounds like your dead set on painting but personally I'm going to use self adhesive (hopefully textured) vinyl. Its not as expensive as laminate but it should give a really nice finish. Kind of going off topic here but all this talk of painting and prep reminds me of a flip MIVEC cover one of my friends of our FTO owners club made for his car. A complete flip cab may look over kill but I think a flip CP or other detail would look awesome. You would need to do a lot of prep etc like javeryh did to get it looking right but it would look pretty sweet. |
| ArtsNFartsNCrafts:
Hey franco, did you get my PM? |
| fjl:
When I did my small joystick I used spray paint and no laquer. I primed obviously. Kilz primer. Non oil based. I used a fine foam roller for this. Someone on this board said foam rollers do a pretty smooth finish. Well either I did it wrong or it was lie since I even used a foam that was meant to do an "ultra smooth" finish. Anyways, I had to sand it down to make it perfectly flat. After I used spray paint. I wanted to use laquer but instead only used the spray paint. Made sure it was high gloss spray paint. Sanded it down and spray painted again. Did this perhaps three times. Then got finer grades of sand paper and commenced doing wet sanding. Last grade I used was 2000 grit. Then finally I used a clean rag and rubbed the paint pretty hard with my fingers using a rubbing compound. This basically did the final sanding since it gave it a really smooth and glossy finish. I then used turtle wax and got an almost mirror finish. No laquer involved. If you like you should first test out what procedure you plan to try on a piece of scrap wood |
| Hoopz:
--- Quote from: efjayel on February 13, 2008, 03:17:07 pm ---Well either I did it wrong or it was lie since I even used a foam that was meant to do an "ultra smooth" finish. --- End quote --- That someone as Javeryh in your thread. I quoted what he said and you argued about why it wouldn't work. I highly doubt he was lying to you and it's pretty irresponsible that you would even suggest that someone would do that. As everyone has said, his projects look outstanding. Just because you couldn't get it to work doesn't mean someone was lying. It probably means that someone didn't do it properly. |
| shardian:
--- Quote from: HooPZ on February 13, 2008, 04:27:30 pm --- --- Quote from: efjayel on February 13, 2008, 03:17:07 pm ---Well either I did it wrong or it was lie since I even used a foam that was meant to do an "ultra smooth" finish. --- End quote --- That someone as Javeryh in your thread. I quoted what he said and you argued about why it wouldn't work. I highly doubt he was lying to you and it's pretty irresponsible that you would even suggest that someone would do that. As everyone has said, his projects look outstanding. Just because you couldn't get it to work doesn't mean someone was lying. It probably means that someone didn't do it properly. --- End quote --- If you press to hard or try to conserve paint, you will end up with bad coverage and roller strokes. Sometimes I feel like beating my wife with the roller when she tries to cover walls with an empty brush to keep from making a return trip to the paint pan. |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |
| Previous page |