How Much Paint?

[the snooper]

i recently did a full colour change on a corsa from blue to black had 2 litres of paint did all the door shuts hatchback in and out under the bonnet you name and still had enough left to re paint the door after someone damaged it breaking in.

if i were the original poster i wouldnt use base and clear unless he is using metalic
1 you need more materials (more expense)
2 if the full car is to be painted it has no advantage it doenst have to mach the exisiting paintwork
3 the original paint would have been a solid colour in cellulose

oh yes

4 by now he's probably wishing he never asked the question

it all depends on whether he is doing a restore of just to his own spec

 

[malcolm]

True enough - I've been thinking cellulose quantities. You'd need a lot less basecoat colour as it's fairly thin with good coverage and there's no need for any more than 2 coats. I'll revise down to 3 litres just to be difficult.

 

[Steven E]

I don't regret asking the question and I'm grateful to you all for responding.

My brother has a Triumph Herald which was resprayed by one of his friends. When a rear quarter panel needed to be repainted the same friend did the work. He started with a full tin of paint and when he had finished, my brother looked in the tin to see how much was left and was surprised that you couldn't really see that anything had been taken out of it.

Some time later, the boot lid was damaged and the friend wasn't able to repair it, so he took it to a bodyshop and handed them his almost full tin of paint, so he knew the colour would be the same. When he collected the car, they handed the paint tin back and it was empty.

Thinking about what happened to my brother and reading the comments in this thread, it is clear that I've asked a "How long is a piece of string?" type question. I'm going to buy just the primer first and if I don't buy enough, I can buy more and if I buy too much, I will use whats left on my Dad's car which also needs work. I will use what I learn from the primer to judge how much base coat and lacquer (or top coat) I buy.

Cheers
Steven.

 

[the snooper]

and while we are on the subject

if you go the base coat way dont get water based you really need dryers for it and if you dont have them it takes a lot longer to dry and more risk of contamination.

 

[jaykay]

one tip on anglias. dont spray to heavy on the roof return top where it meets the window.it holds vapours up there and is slow to dry.also you'll not need as much base colour (see above)i got 4ltrs of base for a camaro,and 2 are still in my garage.
what brand are you going to get????

 

[paintpot]

lol hese painting a ford anglia not east anglia

have you sprayed water base brightspark or just celly.

 

[brightspark]

have you sprayed water base brightspark or just celly.

no i havent sprayed waterbase and never will ive sprayed a lot of celly and its crap depending what im coating i use mainly 2k etch primer and 2k topcoat apart from enamels celly is old hat unles u have a vintage car and celly must be used otherwise it doesnt look right why do u ask????????????????????????? it takes a lot more preperation and time and effort to spray celly to a good standard a monkey can spray 2 k its verry forgiving and covers a multitude of sins without much effort do u agree

 

[paintpot]

if it was my ford Anglia i would do it in a solid 2pack.The ford Anglia i used to work on in1979 when i was doing my apprentice were mainly blue.it was celly then .Spray gloss or belco.if you decide to do it in 2pack get some rocket its accelerator to speed up drying time its by upol.