Paint Your Wagon - with a roller!

[meehaja]

I went direct to rustoleum and paid £12 per litre plus £11 postage. This seems initially expensive, but it does open up the full range of colours (it seemed that a lot of places only do a few colours, and none the shade of orange i was after).

[CovKid]

Quite a few will order in what you need though.

[rainman]

Got myself a bargain yesterday - 12 mini rollers with 2 handles for £2.99 from TKMaxx. I'm going to give the van another coat before summer (I put 2 coats on last year and reckon I have enough paint left for another)

[jake1953]

Now then, The hightop which i bought for my panel van ( still off the van) is now prepped and ready to paint.
Given the quick drying time- 4Mins and its non workable, Is there a procedure for painting a hightop? I'm thinking of all the edges to be done. Is it best to work from the rear and paint over the top of the hightop and work my way to the front or should I do the sides first and then the top?
Any suggestions from those who have done a hightop camper would be appreciated.

[further]

Hi covkid lovely thread I want to get going on this combicolor,red the whole thead. Can you expand on the diff
finishes,
i've seen theres smooth, satin gloss and matt. Matt no problem matts matt, but the other 2 have you used both
or seen the results of both, which do you prefer. I have one small problem, combicolor is not available here
boo hoo, there are rustoleum agents here but only do spray cans and have not heard of combicolor. Do you
know of any suppliers who would ship this side. Thanks mark

[CovKid]

Jake1953: This time of year you'll get possibly ten mins or more to work paint. Think I'd work straight across, front to back.

Further: Welcome to the bible that is "paint your wagon with a roller" - now getting ridiculously long but saving mucho bucks. Talk to Rustoleum direct and see if they can advise you on this. There has to be someone in South Africa that can help.

[further]

Thanks Covkid I'll mail rustoleum direct and see what they can do. Any info on the different paint finishes
smooth, and satin gloss. Have you set up a gallery of all the roller wagons, love to see all of them.

[CovKid]

No, only whats in the WIKI and this thread.

[8bit-ash]

Hi everyone, sorry to jump straight into a thread with my first post, I don't own a T25 but I am trying to decide on how to paint my caddy. Hence me stumbling across this thread. I've spent the last week reading through the many Rustoleum Forum topics (mopar, here, Honda, Mini etc)
What i've discovered is theres a lot of pretty dodgy roller jobs and a few really good roller jobs.
My van looks nice in a photo on a forum but in reality its pretty rough. I've not seen enough really good quality pics of close ups etc to swing me towards getting the roller out for the whole car. And the idea of 6-8 coats to get a good result puts me off.
I also don't want to still be working on the van in a years time doing bits of paint, i'd rather get it out of the way in a week or two.
For these reasons i've decided to Spray the van . Now i'm still interested in the Rustoleum to do this, but I Have a couple of questions and hope someone out there might be able to advise.
Its the polo derived box van. How any litres of Rustoleum will I need to spray something of this size? and how many coats have people done when spraying? I don't need to do the roof as i'm going to try the Roller out and do it gloss black.
Also how does the weather affect rustoleum when its sprayed?

I've been trying to decide on rustoleum or http://www.prontopaints.co.uk/products/military.html i'm swaying towards rustoleum just because so many have used to and are very pleased. Has anyone ever used the Pronto range? They do the military range in gloss and all the ral colours

[jake1953]

Need some help. I've finished the first coat on the high top and am reasonably happy with the result. I didn't quite get the mixture right(too thin) and a couple of runs resulted. Also, some of the roof was primed where repairs had been done but on the areas which weren't primed, the black original colour can be seen through the new red colour.
So, I've flatted back and re-mixed a new batch of paint and ready for round 2.
My question is on the amount of paint on the roller. The article says to saturate the roller. later on it says don't put too much paint on the roller.
so is the idea to have the roller saturated to keep out air, and when rollering, go back to the paint tray frequently to add a little more?
If not, could you give an old thicky a bit of clarification on this important point.
This is a fantastic concept and tremendously satisfying.

[CovKid]

8bit-ash - you're asking in the wrong place to be honest. It wouldn't matter whether you used rustoleum or some other type of paint, spraying is spraying and there are thousands of sites on how to,how much you'll need etc etc. What I don't want to do is (and excuse the pun), dilute the thread by taking it into a different area entirely. The reason why rollering is so popular on T25s is because of the size of them and finish is as much elbow grease as anything else. If you're doing a radical colour change, you need a base coat to avoid the problems you're having. Again there are lots of sites that cover all this. Most of us are sticking with a close-match so this isn't a problem.

Jake, saturating the roller is only when you start - to expel air bubbles. Aim for light coats and don't pile it on. Also if you're a newbie, have a mate with you (as I've suggested in WIKI) to spot runs before they set. The video at the end of the WIKI may help.

[8bit-ash]

I'm not ruling out rollering the van. I'm going to roller the roof and see how it comes out. If i'm pleasantly supprised I may do the rest, I'm going from dark blue to dark grey so no major colour changes. The reason I posted the question on here is because there seemed to be people who have also sprayed with rustoleum. I know what kind of replys i'll get if I try an automotive spray forum and suggest I paint with rustoleum with no base coat.
I also like the reports of rustoleums flexibility. Will save a lot of time when it comes to plastics.
I didn't see the thread title tbh. With all the threads i've been reading I thought it was a paint your wagon for £50 thread, not Paint your wagon with a roller. Sorry,

[jake1953]

Jake, saturating the roller is only when you start - to expel air bubbles. Aim for light coats and don't pile it on. Also if you're a newbie, have a mate with you (as I've suggested in WIKI) to spot runs before they set. The video at the end of the WIKI may help.

Cheers covkid, will let you know how I get on
jake

[onc onc]

Been following this with a lot of interest, and have decided to go for it however i ordered the paint from Lawsons almost two weeks ago now plus a batch of rollers, after almost a week with no delivery i decided to contact them to be told they had now been despatched. the rollers turned up the next day but no bloody paint, so chased them up again to be told that it has,nt been delivered to them from their suppliers and would be at least another week now am i being impatient here or what, i just want to get on with it, i have got an old bonnet of a friends Mini all prepped and ready to go as my practice piece, and just cant wait to get started, anyone else had any problems with Lawsons or is it me just getting itchy fingers, as i said earlier

[8bit-ash]

Can anyone tell me if there's any UV protection in rustoleum. A lot of forums say this is a downside of the stuff but the Americans seem to use a different tin (maybe the same stuff inside).