Coach enamel

"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.

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 🙂

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..

Which paint is that Rich, Montana? Didn't know you could get gloss, would be good for my Beetle.

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.

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!

What make have you used? Alot of people say you need more thinners than the data sheet says, did you find this?

put in as much thinners as you think start 3 to 1