Blaster Good single stage paint for newbie painter?

[SXIPro]

Painting a B1. Daughter wants lime green(yes Kawasaki green on a Yamaha). Father wants simplicity and a forgiving paint. I'd rather not have to clear coat. Clear coat will give me one more chance to phuck up the finish.

Advice?

 

[Scraggly]

get some nason acrylic enamel fast dry. just reduce and shoot. very forgiving and durable, and pretty cheap to

 

[motozachl]

I have used the tractor implement with great success, have done a car and a ski. Check out this thread:
http://www.thirdgen.org/techboard/body/546612-ultimate-budget-paint-job.html

 

[Ejake]

I agree with RAGS on the nason. When I shoot a hull that's what I use.

 

[SXIPro]

Can I get that stuff in cool colors with some gloss? The color charts look all pretty flat and boring. (I guess it is used a lot on farm equipment, so maybe these are just standard colors or base colors?)

 

[Scraggly]

Can I get that stuff in cool colors with some gloss? The color charts look all pretty flat and boring. (I guess it is used a lot on farm equipment, so maybe these are just standard colors or base colors?)

you should be able to get any color you want, go to an oreillys that actually has a decent paint guy and he can set you up. almost all automotive colors will have a formula for the fast dry even if it was originally a base paint.
you can also control the "shine" with the reducer.


thinking about it i may even have some bright green in the fast dry at my shop. ill look tonight if i do i can hook you up i should have a gallon and then you will just have to grab a pint of reducer

 

[rlfknlorangers]

if your comfortable enough to spray...a base clear system is actually more forgiving towards a better end result....it alows you to sand the base if need be for imperfections and also if you say get dirt or something in your clear its much easier to wetsand and buff clear then it is single stage...and wetsandsing and buffing single stage can lead to hazing or halos and other problems especially if you pic a metallic single stage...im fairly certain you cant wetsand and buff those at all without evidence of it staying on the hull.....

 

[SXIPro]

you should be able to get any color you want, go to an oreillys that actually has a decent paint guy and he can set you up. almost all automotive colors will have a formula for the fast dry even if it was originally a base paint.
you can also control the "shine" with the reducer.


thinking about it i may even have some bright green in the fast dry at my shop. ill look tonight if i do i can hook you up i should have a gallon and then you will just have to grab a pint of reducer

That would be awesome. Thanks very much!

 

[Big Kahuna]

get some nason acrylic enamel fast dry. just reduce and shoot. very forgiving and durable, and pretty cheap to

Bingo.

 

[element3488]

i used eastwoods single stage urethane system, good paint that has been holding up to some great abuse 1st time spraying for me pics and info in my build thread

 

[sportfish258]

Why not a single stage polyurethane . To many choices with no REAL explanation of why this brand is better than another . I think there is a lot of double talk and re branding in this industry .

 

[dragginblazer]

A friend and I used Summit Racing single stage this past winter on our builds. Probably will look like crap a year from now but it was just over $100 for the "1 gallon kit".

 

[element3488]

heres some info on my paint.
this also comes in a 1 sprayable gallon kit around $100