Painting Setup Recommendations

Please could someone recommend the best painting setup. I would like to use a spray gun setup but don’t know which spray guns and air compressor to buy. Looking for a good result for not too much money.

Solvent paint roller.

Unfortunately a good paint job means good gear. A 3hp compressor and gun will be about 500 squid.
Down from that are the diy kits that use less air for around 300 and the HVLP units at around 100. These however are little better than a brush and roller for 30 quid.

You can get a very good finish with a roller if you are careful, and requires far less expenditure and skill than a spray set up.

I've had success with sparex agricolour paint (one of the only makers I've found of the correct 'almost white' colour) applied with a foam roller.

+1 on Sparex paint.

I once panted a triumph 2500 with half a gallon of Dulux from Woolworths and a gallon of petrol as thinners. I did buy an expensive paint brush though. The result was great, all things considered.

Col

One thing about using a roller is that you can do a panel at a time and its easy to touch up later.

I painted my 90 with a hobby compressor in a make shift tent I bought a devilbliss HVLP gun £80 quid
the compressor I got cost me 5 quid to repair off gumtree...………….




Straight out the gun not polished or flattened

Thats as good as some new 18 plate cars I have seen on the road , dark ones especially covered with orange peel, well done

To contrast @kevstar here is my 110 painted with roller using HMG enamel.




I didn’t trust myself to spray it without making a complete hash of it and getting a very poor finish.

dag019 said:

To contrast @kevstar here is my 110 painted with roller using HMG enamel.
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I didn’t trust myself to spray it without making a complete hash of it and getting a very poor finish.

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Looks great btw decent finishes can be got with a roller, I paint boats every year with roller & use the foam
brushes to take out the air bubbles if its not a great finish you can always wet flatten it & polish it with G4
or the likes

Strange, always got air bubbles using foam rollers, find I get a better finish using a short pile 4" roller normally Harris

keithcanfixit said:

Strange, always got air bubbles using foam rollers, find I get a better finish using a short pile 4" roller normally Harris

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There is a knack that you very quickly pick up through trial and error to remove the bubbles. You need to have just the right amount of paint on the roller to begin with, and work it just the right amoun. Then go back over it a minute or so later with a roller with very little paint on it. It sounds far more complicated than it really is, and when actually painting you very quickly work out the technique.

I use these, they work really well.
https://www.toolstation.com/shop/p45894

Before foam a mohair roller was the weapon of choice. You had to wash it several times before hand to get the loose hair out of it.