Well, now that im taking autobody and learning how to paint cars, I can say good bye to spray bombs for awhile. Got a decent but cheap paint gun, a non HVLP Sharp Fx2000. recleared my taillights, and ill let the pics speak for themselves:

Before:



^last 2 pics are a lil bit older

hard to see, but they had alot of texture, and wernt glassy looking like I wanted and tried so hard to get. looked cleared but had alot of orange peel.

After:






The ***** like a mirror, I love the last pic and my camera in the bottom left corner of it. these pics were taken about 2 hours after they were painted so its not really all that wet, thats what there gonna look like. Also what i like about this is I can wetsand/buff if i want to where spray bomb laquer's never really get hard and never buff glossy, they just dull

 

so when you gonna paint my lower lip kit??? lol looks good

 

lol i should start charging local guys and painting evo mods on cars for cheap and make myself some money. cant wait to do my rims and evo mod with a bit of gold pearl. YUM

 

incoming: lots of weird new paint mods..

 

I was trying to hook u up last night with ronny, hes wanting alot done to his car.

 

Who's ronny? the yellow one? yea ill hook him up.

 

come do the evo mod on my car...ill give u $10

 

I would love to learn how to paint proffessionally.

 

ditto, we used to build high end computers, and we usually gave the cases to a local shop to paint and airbrush. i always wanted to learn how to do that type of stuff

 

cool **** man

 

Hang on. The gun hooks up to a compressor, right? Where do you get paint from?

 

ya these guns hook up to a compressor, the one he got was about $90 which is a good price for a starter gun, he won't outgrow it for awhile i bet

idk about the pain, Sherwin Williams maybe? the paint store

 

the gun i payed a little over 100 for. its a good gun. No $600 Sata, but as long as you take care of it, you see the results. sprays perfect.
Got the paint from Carquest, and the gun hooks up to a compressor, I have a PSI gauge and a Oil/water seperator on it so i dont fisheye the paint from contaminents in the air.

Difference b/w spray bomb and this, is that real paint you have to buy in quarts/gallons and have the right equiptment like mixing sticks, and measuring cups, and paint paddles, and strainers. nothing expensive, but a quart of clear, hardner, and that pressure regulator together was 60 bucks. but i used about 10% of the quart of clear. so i can still do another like 8 sets of lights. Im gonna buy some black so i can just add it to the clear to make my own nightshades so i never have to buy it and i can tint cars locally and make a few bucks. and itll also look 10x better. just mix a little bit of clear, add a tiny bit of black, add your hardener. boom