Another roller paint job (56k warning)

[tjts1]

8 months and 8000 miles later, I finally gave the car another wash.









I still need to paint the areas below the bumpers, put another coat of paint on the trunk lid and rear 1/4s and finish it all off with a sand and polish. Eventually I'll get to it... I swear. Theres a few stone chips here and there but otherwise the paint is still solid.

[jw 325ic]

roughly 50 bucks search

[soviet1942]

How much does a job like this cost?

[jw 325ic]

any updates?

[jw 325ic]

very nice good to see someone is doing this. i just roller painted a fender with alpine white 2 and it came out very nice. your car looks awesome. keep up the good work and definitely do the valences ASAP. get a lip, and in a month no one will tell its roller painted.

[tjts1]

I still haven't made any progress on the pain job since the last time. Its been so long I had to wash the car yesterday. So I took some close up pics in the sun.

Been driving around with masking tape on the car for a month now


Still no sanding or polish. Just the way it came off the roller.


The sunroof has been sanded and polished by hand, the rest of the roof is rough


The trunk lid needs another coat. You can see the lines where the paint is still too thin


Straight off the roller.


Hopefully I get the metal below the bumper painted before the end of the month... hopefully. I'm leaving the original diamond swarz as is between the tail lights.

As you can see, its still a work in progress. To be continued.

[kickarse]

Looking really good! I'm going to try this with my 89 as well. We'll see how it goes.

Our motto's now "painting, one panel at a time"

[jex]

x2.

Stick to flat or gloss colors. Going metallic adds a whole new dimension to the project.

Agreed.

I tried metallic, it does not turn out well at all.

[Garageaholic]

Jex, my biggest issue with silver is that the roller job requires wetsanding and lots of polishing to look good, and most silver paints have plenty of metal flake in them... right?

If not, I may give some silvers a try...

x2.

Stick to flat or gloss colors. Going metallic adds a whole new dimension to the project.

[sumyungguy]

Im under the impression you cant add metallics to this paint. When applying metallics they have to lay down a certain way to reflect evenly, if you roll it on they wont. You pretty much have to stick to solid colors.

And to the OP, are you sanding between coats? Your paint doesn't look as smooth as some of the other work Ive seen.

[euroshark]

Jex, my biggest issue with silver is that the roller job requires wetsanding and lots of polishing to look good, and most silver paints have plenty of metal flake in them... right?

If not, I may give some silvers a try...

[jex]

I know that mineral spirits was the prefered method of thinning with the rustoleum. I didnt find much info about using it in the interlux paint. That is what I was wondering about.

[Garageaholic]

I pretty much used mineral spirits for a couple reasons:

1. It's an oil based enamel paint thinner. The paint that i used was an oil based enamel paint.

2. The people who have done this before me and had writeups about it used mineral spirits.

I've had no adverse reactions to the paint. It has been holding up like a champ all summer, even to stone chips and bugs.

[jex]

Quick question.

I noticed you used mineral spirits to thin the paint down. Have there been any adverse reactions with the paint??? I was under the impression that this paint needed to be thinned with ketone.

[Garageaholic]

GHETTO!! I have seen a two tone (red and blue) brush on job though. I wouldn't exactly say doing it like this is the white way to do it but... It'll make a great car at 50ft though. I'll stick with my slight oxidation and dents here and there.

I think it's gonna turn out OK. It took me 2 months to do mine and you can't tell the difference. You really can't.

It all depends on how much time, effort, coats, sanding and detail you put into it....simple as that.....