For Rob Woolley, if he looks at this forum!

[Bumpa]

In the latest Dolly Mixture you recount the progress on your magenta Sprint. I was intrigued to see that you painted it with a brush and I wondered if you could tell me what paint you used, and how you dealt with brush marks etc. Thanks in anticipation of you seeing this,

Mike

[cleverusername]

Why not simply paint you car with a spray gun? You can get decent results with a brush but it will require far more sanding it flat it. Plus you would still have to mask it, unless you were very careful with the brush. It really isn't a shortcut method for painting a car, at least if you want a decent finish.

Using a spray gun will be much quicker.

[dollyman]

In the latest Dolly Mixture you recount the progress on your magenta Sprint. I was intrigued to see that you painted it with a brush and I wondered if you could tell me what paint you used, and how you dealt with brush marks etc. Thanks in anticipation of you seeing this,

Mike

I think Rob might have just painted the underside by brush Mike, i might be wrong...... There looks like spray dust inside the car.
I have seen cars brush painted in celly but it is very time consuming as it involves a lot of flatting and polishing. I have also seen two amazing resprays done with rattle cans, one of which was done outside.

Tony.

[new to this]

If your thinking of hand painting a car,really you should use coach paint,its a lot thicker,but there is more prep work and the wet and drying after its painted,you can get good results
spray cans give good results as well,
I have painted cars before by brush,also tiried a roller,there good enough when you 17-18 but not the best

Dave

[Bumpa]

I'm not thinking of painting my car myself, it just intrigued me when the article in the magazine said he had brush painted the car. I have some experience of that because I brush painted my Lotus Elan Sprint. As it was a fibreglass body, I used International Perfection yacht paint. There was a lot of flatting to be done but it turned out well as you can see. Hours and hours of work though. You wouldn't use that paint on a steel car - or would you? Trouble would be there is a very limited selection of colours. Fortunately the red and white were perfect for the Lotus.