Paint Your Wagon - with a roller!

[CovKid]

Thats the strengths of rollering Zed. It gives you far more time to pinpoint problem areas rather than going to the expence (and few can anyway) of having something that big resprayed only to find bubbling under your new paintwork. Its soul destryong.

Its some years since I did mine and it still holds up very well, but I almost liken it to the same level of maintenance as narrow boats where you shrug off the elements with a general spruce up on the years its needed most - including pre-winter touchups. Its worked for me and unless you actually TELL people its rollered, almost no one ever notices. As I said once before, take any new cheap production car, look up close and the finish is what the manufacturer thinks they can safely get away with. Some I've seen are atrocious but they look 'acceptable' in the showroom and in most instances are identical to or worse than a rollered finish. Honest, you go look.

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Sanding complete

Now to wait for the sun

[KittyCamper84]

Hi all, we are going through the process of painting our van. We have spent best part of 3weeks prepping and have got it almost to the stage of painting. I just wanted to find out how forgiving the paint is? we have a few small pin pricks in the filler and im fed up with trying to refill them all. just wondered if it covers these type of things or do I have to get it perfect?

[clinning]

Hi all, we are going through the process of painting our van. We have spent best part of 3weeks prepping and have got it almost to the stage of painting. I just wanted to find out how forgiving the paint is? we have a few small pin pricks in the filler and im fed up with trying to refill them all. just wondered if it covers these type of things or do I have to get it perfect?

Get some knifing putty from halfords 2.99. No need to mix and goes off in an hour or so. Goes on nice and smooth and fills the tiniest of holes.

[CovKid]

or primer builder which is designed to deal with small imperfections. Yes it'll show where you didn't do as good a job - same as any spray job.

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So started the roof today to see how it went

One coat down
Not sure if I was ment to do two coats one after the other cuz we tryed on a little bit and the orange peel was made worse so will rub down next sunny day

Can someone let me know how many coats is required.

Pics of progress and missis working lol

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More paint added
And window out in one piece

[CovKid]

You should be getting a feel for the paint now. Now and again you get a sprint on and manage to achieve a near perfect finish - once the roller has expelled all its bubbles and you've got just the right amount of thinners. You can see why you need two people though - one to paint and one to spot errors.

And you know the nice thing? If you do get some rust appear, you can deal with it, roller it and no one will ever notice...

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Covkid
I think our mix was still alittle thick
Mix was 400 to 80 ml so will increase and give it ago on the bottom half
It's no issue the finish is ok to be fair and once it's flatted back it be perfect

How long should I leave between coats and flating back?

[CovKid]

Depends on the weather. If you get hot sun it can be a few days but can be two weeks or more. If it feels resistant/rubbery when you try to flat, its still too soft.

[KittyCamper84]

we too started painting on sat, and have done one coat on the top half of the van. I was going to ask the same thing, do we need to flat off between coats? also, our mix was 400ml to 60ml of white spirit, we seemed to have a lot of bubbles as we went but it has smoothed out nicely. im thinking we will need at least three coats as it is very see through!?
I'll try and sort some pics!

Jeremy

[CovKid]

Did you get the DVD? Its all answered on there. Flat back if you think you need a second coat. You don't have to go mad - just knock the rough spots back and give it some kind of key.

[bicolour]

we too started painting on sat, and have done one coat on the top half of the van. I was going to ask the same thing, do we need to flat off between coats? also, our mix was 400ml to 60ml of white spirit, we seemed to have a lot of bubbles as we went but it has smoothed out nicely. im thinking we will need at least three coats as it is very see through!?
I'll try and sort some pics!

Jeremy

Hi Jeremy

We had loads of bubbles to but just kept working it and they soon went
We also started sat
Waiting for good weather to do bottom half

Also thinking 3 coats

I got the DVD

[KittyCamper84]

We have the DVD but it didn't really say whether to flat back between or all at the end. The coat seemed very thin so we are definitely looking at three coats, as we have a few colours to cover up!!! I have just flatted it back this evening and it has come up nice even if the underneath is showing through!!!!

[KittyCamper84]

you cant see a lot as the light was fading. we have done the pop top and half way down.

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