Thread: How muuch paint

Interesting thread, I'm looking at painting my series 1 with enamel, nice and shiny and not a lot of work to polish after spraying.
Acrylic too much work to buff
2 pac out due to the dangers and lack of a spray booth.
What type of paint were early Land Rovers painted with?


Regards,
Tote

I painted Basil with 2 pack in my garage, disposable overalls, a respirator, thongs and a couple of 500w lights from Supercrap

Don't go acrylic. You look at it the wrong way the paint comes off.

So I have another question....

would it be best to strip all/ or as much paint before plaving a primer on or does it not really matter?

as I have different coloured buts to go on I thought it was best to ask.

Currently I have a purple bonnet, green mudguards (fenders, wings what ever you want to call them) a blue firewall and purple doors along with a purple roof but with a white tropical roof on top...hahahahahaha.

If I have to strip them thats something I can start doing if someone tells me how..hahahah do I just use a solvent or something that melts and takes paint off? or is it a case of days with a flapper wheel.

Lou

If you paint over purple paint, sure as eggs to top coat will peel some day and reveal your perfidy.. Strip, clean, prime, paint with lots of elbow grease and your paint job will last longer. I have in the past tried to find wrecks with the same colour panels to save on painting, hard to do nowadays.
Best of luck on stripping paint, I've never done it (too lazy by half).

so any thoughts on stripping the paint...as I would imagine getting in the firewall on the inside of where the instruments go will not be easy.

Originally Posted by dullbird

so any thoughts on stripping the paint...as I would imagine getting in the firewall on the inside of where the instruments go will not be easy.

Lou,
It depends if you are going to strip the car or not. If the panels are stripped you can have them sand-blasted; or soda-blasted for aluminium; or acid dipped to get the paint off. Paint stripper and hours of hand cleaning will work but can become rather tedious

Whatever method you choose I agree a bare-metal re-paint is the best way to do it,

Cheers Charlie

Hi Charlie

Yes all panels have been removed! the car is a bare chassis well apart from the front springs and axle that have just been put back on.

My only concern for all the panels being sand/soda blasted is the sheer cost of doing it.

Anyone every used these people..the only thing I'm not sure of is although there process is patented i cant seem to see what there process actually is.

http://www.redistrip.com.au/main.html

Ask them if it safe for aluminium, as I suspect their process uses caustic soda.

If you want cheap, immerse your bulkhead in a bath of molasses to get all the rust off but you will still need to deal with any paint,

Cheers Charlie