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Thinking of doing my current project in coach enamel. Has anyone used this? Has anyone done a proper, glass flat job with it? Anyone sprayed it?
For every perfect brush painted austin 7 you see, there are another poor looking cars so I guess it's not that easy.
I'm really curious about it, and for this project it feels like the ideal paint, but i also need an almost perfect finish.
I know it can be done, I've seen it. Just never tried it!
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Curveball: Gloss graffiti paint. That’s dried, from the can. No flatting or polishing has occurred.
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"re-paint" coach paint, my dad painted a few of our cars in it over the years, just make sure you have a good brush and heat it up first. My lada you couldnt tell.
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"re-paint" coach paint, my dad painted a few of our cars in it over the years, just make sure you have a good brush and heat it up first. My lada you couldnt tell. Can you still get that? I remember a friends dad telling me about it when you could buy it in Halfords way back when!
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That's not bad at all!
What I'm after, if I can manage it, is the look of black oil. That deep high gloss but without the plastic look of 2k.
I could use celly but alot of what I'm painting will be very awkward to flat and polish so am looking for something that will settle and dry to a high gloss without and polishing.
Coach enamel should do everything I need at the expense of it being both very hard and very time consuming.
I've been reading and I've found reference to old school coach painters wearing only shorts and covering themselves in linseed oil! 😂
Also read paint rooms had central heating, which luckily enough sounds exactly like our spare bedroom 🙂
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I've read about the repaint stuff.
Seems there are a few options for coach enamel, craftmaster, paintman, HMG and Smith and Allen seem the top recommendations.
The Smith and Allen tekaloid has an awful lot of good reviews.
The main thing I'm nervous about is if it all goes wrong, painting over it will be tricky. Not 100% decided if I'll brush or spray it, I'll probably try both, but if I'm going this way I may as well go the whole hog and brush it!
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Last Edit: Nov 2, 2020 22:02:34 GMT by VW
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i thought you could still get it on ebay, but i just looked and cant find it, but then ive not looked tha hard, HMG do a coach enamel paint..
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i thought you could still get it on ebay, but i just looked and cant find it, but then ive not looked tha hard, HMG do a coach enamel paint.. Saw hmg's, mentioned it above but now see it auto corrected it. I think repaint may no longer be available.
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Last Edit: Nov 2, 2020 22:02:02 GMT by VW
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Curveball: Gloss graffiti paint. That’s dried, from the can. No flatting or polishing has occurred. Which paint is that Rich, Montana? Didn't know you could get gloss, would be good for my Beetle.
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Curveball: Gloss graffiti paint. That’s dried, from the can. No flatting or polishing has occurred. Which paint is that Rich, Montana? Didn't know you could get gloss, would be good for my Beetle. Yea, Montana White. It’s a proper decent gloss.
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A old guy in the village I grew up in used to do it on some pretty high end stuff and it looked amazing. He showed me the technique a few times, but for some reason in the nanosecond between the loaded brush leaving his hand and going into mine the bristles suddenly became faulty or something as it either looked like it'd put the paint on with a sweeping brush or it took more paint off than on.
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you can use 2k air dry it works perfect
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you can use 2k air dry it works perfect I mentioned in another thread, I've looked into that alot recently and I've rear one or two folk say it works ok and maybe 10 folk say it never hardens properly. I'm tempted to try, but that's not good odds. Probably better odds than the amount of folk I've read who actually managed to do a proper job with coach enamel though!
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ive used it for years no problem
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ive used it for years no problem What make have you used? Alot of people say you need more thinners than the data sheet says, did you find this?
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put in as much thinners as you think start 3 to 1
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I work closely with a traditional coach painter, goes hand in hand with my Signwriting 😉
It's very difficult stuff to use, I had a go thinking it would be same as my Signwriting paints, how wrong was I lol
But the finish when done properly is stunning.
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Are you talking about rolling and tipping or something else?
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