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Originally Posted by SilverLined
Late seeing this, Discseven, but I'm all for your idea. Sometimes it's about the journey! And rattle cans can deliver nearly the same quality that a professional gun/compressor/booth can... it just takes a lot more work, and likely more steps along the way.
What color have you chosen? Metallic/pearl will make things difficult. Maybe better to go Maaco/side-job in that case. With regard to your online vendor, there may be better options... are there any local auto paint suppliers? You can take your paint code to them, too. Especially if you're planning to scale up, they may be able to offer a discount.
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SilverLined... car's metallic silver. Staying with that only to keep areas I don't want to paint coordinated---door jams, under the hoods, etc. AutomotiveTouchup mixes paints to codes or car year & model paint names. For testing, I bought a can of Arctic Silver and a Tesla Starlight Silver. Also got a large alimunum panel to figure out the technique for achieving an even laydown.
Small test to begin sorting parking lot painting out...
R&E is not what will be used to paint car. Was only for cross deck.
Repaired rear cross deck in engine bay in parking lot. (Prior owner had leveraged engine into place using deck. So was a strip, bending, light Bondo, prime, base, clear using paints above.) Cross deck is a small area so cannot compare it to dealing with car panels. But doing that did serve to get a handle on how to approach stripping and painting a 911 panel by panel in this lot. Finished surface is without sanding & buffing the SprayMax clear.