Rustoleum

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It can be flatted down for a mirror finish too, but you need a few coats on to do that....

[Dave_IOW]

So after the arrival of this..



And after reading this thread..

http://www.rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint.html

The can says to use acetone, but the folks on the moparts forum had problems with the paint flashing too fast using it as a thinning medium. Mineral spirits seemed to work just fine for me and, when thinned, the paint self-leveled to completely smooth after a few minutes.

Judging by the fact, they are in baking hot America, think using Acetone itself would help due to our temperatures not being so warm?

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Yeah I read that thread before I did mine too!!!

I used white spirit to thin down, about 10%, it did take an age to go off but turned out ok, you don't have long to work the paint as it is so you wouldn't want it to go off too quickly....

[Dave_IOW]

Fair do's, so goes tacky reasonably quick, but takes ages to fully cure?

[tomp]

Yeah exactly, you can only pass over it so many times with the roller, you soon get a feel for it though.

Best advice I can give you when painting is to have a second person following you and pointing out any runs and bits you've missed so you can quickly go back over them.

[Dave_IOW]

Yeah, will get a spotter, how did you do door shuts etc, foam brush, how did that end up? 

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Foam brush finish is the same really, you can do 95% of it with the roller. What I did was do the tricky bits with the foam brush, then run the roller over where I could get to, turned out fine...

Make sure that you really really saturate the roller before you start painting, if not you will get air bubbles, you can get them out by running the roller over again with no pressure atall on it but its a hassle that can be avoided if the roller is saturated...