Painting Supplies? Options

[lagos]

I'm thinking about picking up a cheap spray gun from Harbor Freight and painting a few small things like fenders, to fix some small dents that I've gotten over the years.
Does anyone here have any experience with doing this? Whats a good place for painting supplies? Is it even possible to get good results from a DIY job? I've done some bondo and spray paint work in the past that can look fairly good once its properly wet sanded and buffed. Now I think I'm ready to move on to a real spray gun.

This post has been edited by lagos: Mar 20, 2013 - 12:08 PM

[czwalga]

I use a lowes HVLP gun.


TCP global is a good place to buy paint, you can see my build thread where I used a viper blue and flat black. Lay a very light coat on first otherwise it will fisheye, or run, or just look like **** in general.


Since mines for a rally car, I do cheaper single stage acrylic, but on a regular car you definitely want a urethane with clear coat. Then wetsand the texture out of it. It's impossible to get near a factory finish without wetsanding.


Since you can't sand single stage acrylic because the clear is mixed with the paint, mine has a texture. It's uniform and most people think I did it intentionally, but like I said wouldn't do it if you're trying to match something up.