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I have just done some touch up work on my zook with a spray gun using acrylic paint. I sprayed it as per directions, 1 part paint to 1 1/2 part thinner but the paint looks good but has no shine. Can you help before I paint the rest of the ute?

youve used acrylic lacquer, its harder to get a shine off the gun.

you can try using a thinner top coat to get a shine but your best bet is to use ultrafine wet and dry sandpaper and then give it a buff and polish.

bludnut wrote:youve used acrylic lacquer, its harder to get a shine off the gun.

you can try using a thinner top coat to get a shine but your best bet is to use ultrafine wet and dry sandpaper and then give it a buff and polish.

Isn't that the only way to get a good shine with acrylic?

I painted my first car with that. I just left it a week and then cut it back with some wet and dry and polished it, came up a treat.

I have only ever seen professional spray painters get a decent shine from acrylic right from the gun. Even then, it always shines much better after a light rub back and a cut and polish.

Yuor right on with the paint, it was acrylic lacquer. I was watching "American Hot Rod" on austar the other night and got all inspired to pimp my ride a bit. Big difference is they have a spraybooth, I have a open shed in a paddock, they are probably warm, I did it today at 11 degrees, my spraygun cost $60 bucks etc etc. Is there a better paint to use for a novice. What about two pack?

Vineboy wrote:Yuor right on with the paint, it was acrylic lacquer. I was watching "American Hot Rod" on austar the other night and got all inspired to pimp my ride a bit. Big difference is they have a spraybooth, I have a open shed in a paddock, they are probably warm, I did it today at 11 degrees, my spraygun cost $60 bucks etc etc. Is there a better paint to use for a novice. What about two pack?

I'm a painter by trade and wouldn't recommend you use that unless you have had a bit of practice first aspecially if your painting at 11 degrees. When you say you paint is dull i'm assuming you mean it's blushing like a creamy dull look.

This is caused by to much moisture in the air caused by either painting at low tempritures or painting in humid conditions. The best way to paint acyrlic is to preheat your panels a bit first. Either set heaters up around your shed or if doing small areas at a time you can use a heat gun or hair dryer.

Than you will still need to cut back with p1200 than buff to get a desent shine.

On the other hand 2 pac can be painted at 5 degrees if need be but it runs very very easily in the wrong hands aspecialy with the wrong gun & gun set up.

Cheers Mick.

Mick. wrote:

Vineboy wrote:Yuor right on with the paint, it was acrylic lacquer. I was watching "American Hot Rod" on austar the other night and got all inspired to pimp my ride a bit. Big difference is they have a spraybooth, I have a open shed in a paddock, they are probably warm, I did it today at 11 degrees, my spraygun cost $60 bucks etc etc. Is there a better paint to use for a novice. What about two pack?

I'm a painter by trade and wouldn't recommend you use that unless you have had a bit of practice first aspecially if your painting at 11 degrees. When you say you paint is dull i'm assuming you mean it's blushing like a creamy dull look.

This is caused by to much moisture in the air caused by either painting at low tempritures or painting in humid conditions. The best way to paint acyrlic is to preheat your panels a bit first. Either set heaters up around your shed or if doing small areas at a time you can use a heat gun or hair dryer.

Than you will still need to cut back with p1200 than buff to get a desent shine.

On the other hand 2 pac can be painted at 5 degrees if need be but it runs very very easily in the wrong hands aspecialy with the wrong gun & gun set up.

Cheers Mick.

Mick,

Great tips as i will start painting my G60 soon and havnt got a clue.

Steve

Thanks Mick,
It was the humidity I'd say as ther were fogs about. I left the ute out in the sun so it warmed up a bit and was in a bit of a hurry to get it all done and reasembled in one day

You can't go wrong with Hammertone Enamel

Worst thing I found with Acrylic and no spray booth is the thousands of bugs that descend upon you and your job. These bugs I have only ever seen when painting and they land on your job, walk around for a while and then die.

the only way to get a decent shine from arcrylic paint is to cut and buff it. You can only get a real shine from the gun is to use 2pac, which is not the best for backyard jobs as the over spray is alot worse the arcrylic paint.

Enamel with a little hardner gives a good finish off the gun and easy to paint for a novice.

rub it all back, give it a re-spray hit it with clear and she`s sweeeeet

And yes dont spray acrylic in the cold. Actually that goes for all gloss paint including house paints as they will dry flat.

If your using 2pac use proper masks and what not. I was watching a guy spray this stuff and was only wearing a p1 filter and for the next three days I felt like I was recovering from a week long speed binge, it wasn't pretty!