Painting a Vehicle?

Question

What is needed to paint a car from start to finish(materials) and what do they do? what is the difference in types of paint? Whats the difference between enamel,urethane,and lacquer? how do you give a car the extreme wet look? Exactly how do u wetsand?.... Thanx

Answer 1

You'll need sand paper, 100 grit, 600 grit and 1600 grit. You'll also need an aircompressor, an HVLP spray gun, tape, paper, primer, paint and thinner.
Before you begin tape up and/or use the paper on everything you don't want painted.
The 100 grit is to remove/rough up existing paint. This is the first step. Then you spray on the primer. When it's dry you sand it with the 600 grit sandpaper to smooth it out and remove any runs.
Then you'll spray the car with the paint and let dry. Then you'll wet sand the car with the 1600 grit. To wet sand you'll need a spray bottle. You'll spray the area that you are getting ready to sand. You'll want to keep the area wet as long as you are sanding it. This helps take away the stuff you've sanded off so it doesn't scratch the rest of the paint.
When sanding it's useful to have and air powered dual action sander.
The differences in the paints are: Laquer is brittle when dry and tend to crack. Urethane is relatively cheap and looks descent, but will never get you that wet look. Enamel is thicker and tougher than Urethane and is the preferred single stage paint.
To get that ultra wet look you'll want to do a base coat clear coat treatment. You'll follow the directions as above, but you'll wet sand after the base coat and make sure the vehicle is very clean before applying the clear coat. To get that ultra wet look you'll have to do about 3-4 layers of clear coat and you'll have to wet sand between each one.

Answer 2

With all due respect, if you've never painted a car before I doubt if you'll achieve 'the wet look' you seem to want. As 'thastone' said save yourself a lot of grief. Save up your cash and get a 'pro' to do it. I'm building a car myself and it's the one job i'm not even going to attempt! Good Luck!

Answer 3

well you dont do it yourself because you'll balls it up. you save up about a grand and you should get a good job done inside and out for that. save all the time effort and tears.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

No.