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I've bought myself a winter hack to keep me off the bike for the winter. It's a bit of a crapper but the heater works. As with most other old metallic blue Peugeots, the paint has faded beyond salvage. I intend to give it a blow over with a similar colour cellulose based paint. Would I need to prime before spraying, or would a simple rub down with some wet&dry suffice? I'm not to interested in making it look hot and sexy, (it only cost £300 with a years ticket) just one colour will do. I have a small compressor which I use in my garage and the spray gun that came with it. But I've never used it, so any advice would be welcome.
Just out of curiosity, is metallic paint any harder to spray than non metallic paint?
Cheers
Just out of curiosity, is metallic paint any harder to spray than non metallic paint?
Cheers
yes it needs primering.
Yes met is harder to spray.
And to be honest I strongly advise you to leave it alone! At the moment I guess it is dull and flat, however as your first spray job using a little compressor and a cheapy gun chances are it will look worse.
If your looking on it as practice on a car that doesn't matter fine, but I end up tidying a lot of these up after the event, I would invest in some t cut and some rags and hold a polishing party if you really want to make it look better!
Yes met is harder to spray.
And to be honest I strongly advise you to leave it alone! At the moment I guess it is dull and flat, however as your first spray job using a little compressor and a cheapy gun chances are it will look worse.
If your looking on it as practice on a car that doesn't matter fine, but I end up tidying a lot of these up after the event, I would invest in some t cut and some rags and hold a polishing party if you really want to make it look better!
It's way beyond T-cut. I tried a small patch and it looks proper shite. (I'll get some pictures uploaded)
I'll go for the test job and give it a blow over in the garage. This is my reckoning...
50/50 Primer
50/50 Basecoat
30/70 Topcoat
Buff it up.
Using cellulose paint. Would that work? Like I say in my first post, I'm not after making it look like a new car, its a 93 pug 106 deisel that I got for a work runner. I just want it one colour. I'll stay away from the original metallic i think.
Cheers for responding guys.
I'll go for the test job and give it a blow over in the garage. This is my reckoning...
50/50 Primer
50/50 Basecoat
30/70 Topcoat
Buff it up.
Using cellulose paint. Would that work? Like I say in my first post, I'm not after making it look like a new car, its a 93 pug 106 deisel that I got for a work runner. I just want it one colour. I'll stay away from the original metallic i think.
Cheers for responding guys.
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