Roller painting a car

I just got in a small fibreglass kit car that is desperate need of a lick of paint. Because its defiantly not worth respraying what do i need to roller paint it.

I.e Type of roller?
Type of brush?
Type of primer?
Type of paint?
and anything else i missed

Any help would be great regards

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is that one of your own piccys did she get it clean

didn't realise dbb had helped paint your motor storm

That was incredibly helpful

i did my landy with a 1.99 roller from morrisons and a pot of enamel from paddocks. and some cheap paintybrushes. it looks amusingly rough, but it's all the same colour and its quite battered anyways. dunno what i would do if i wanted it to look smoooooth. some other guys have done it on here, there4 was a thread a bit ago on how to do it

ive heard of people using a sponge..... as far as rollers go the short haired ones give a smooth finish on walls the coarse spongey ones are for textured ceiling coats..... i find the rollers a pain to clean impossible with anything not water based.... seal it in a plastic bag between coats works for a day or two with emulsion.... or just use cheap sleeves and throw away after each coat.

Right i think i have got they right.

I need to use a sponge roller
Synthetic paint

Do i use a normal paintbrush or just a synthetic one?
If im painting on fibreglass do i have to use primer?

I did my old mini with a roller. Came out okay, with a bit of the old orange peel effect, but atleast it was all one colour, and it made me 300 quid profit when a year later I came to sell my car.

I used rustoleum paint, and got it mixed (can't remember who by, by everybody on the mini forums who'd done it recommended them. They were awesome. Very friendly, cheap, and quick), to the old BMC Tartan red, it cost somewhere in the region of 25 quid for 3 tins I think and in the end I gave the mini 3 coats and still had a tin left over.

I used sponge rollers, but in hindsight im not sure if I would have used a synthetic roller instead as the orange peel mainly came (I think) from the fact I was essentially using a sponge (albeit a rolly one), to apply the paint.

Like I say the finish wasn't perfect, and I learnt the hard way that, after giving it it's final coat, wait more than 12 hours for it to cure, before bolting back on all the chrome bits, and bumpers etc. I was too eager, and it was my daily drive, so I gave it it's final coat about 8 or 9 in the evening, and the next day about 11 oclock in the morning I was back at the garage bolting everything back on. The paint was still a bit wet, and I only thought it would take half hour or so to put back the rear windows, boot lid, wipers, bumpers, lights, bonnet, grille, etc. In reality, I should have left it about three or four days, and then left a day to get everything back on.

Anyways, I'll find some pics of her before during and after and post them so you can see what kind of finish you'll get. If somebody like me (bullish and impatient) can do an okay job on my first go, I imagine most people would find this very easy and get superb results.

If I ever I decided a defender or series of mine needed a repaint then I wouldn't think twice about doing it this way. So cheap in comparrison with a proper respray, and on a landrover, gives just the finish you want. So as you're not too precious with it, and it looks rough and rugged, but presentable at the same time.

Anyways, I'll dig out those pics...

Okay, it was avenue coatings I used. It took them about a week to get the paint mixed and sent to me. It was Rustoleum Combicolour, and I must point out that they have alot of swatches made up. If you can tell them the old colour you want, there's a good chance they'll already have mixed it for somebody and already have it, however, if they don't they can mix it for you, but theres like a 10 quid extra charge for mixing the paint to the correct colour you want. Once they've done it, they keep the swatch and then if you ever need any more, it's normal price.

Also, as you can see, there is the added bonus when painting that you don't have to mask up so much, because paint isn't going to go everywhere. Just where you put it.

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There you go! Hope that helps.

I painted one of my old land rovers with a sponge roller and nato paint. I would have thought that painting a car with a synthetic roller would leave more marks and the fibres are longer. Or is this not the case?

Same principal;

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f16/how-hand-paint-landy-pictures-152225.html

Yeh the sponge roller doesn't have fibres left in the paint etc. but what happens, is as you press the roller along the panels, because of the nature of the sponges holes, bubbles form on the paintwork, and then those bubbles pop/ dry and form the orange peel effect. (I think).
I assume using a fibre roller would be better, but then again I have no clue about painting or rollering. Infact, it was the first and only time I've ever used a roller to paint something lol.

I did see an interesting video on youtube, where somebody roller painted their canal boat but the paint was suitably thin, and they 'dry brushed' after every 20 seconds of rolling to remove all the bubbles, and get a finish identical to spraying. I had a quick go at this on one of the panels and it didn't work for me. My paint may have not been thinned enough, and I may have had the wrong brush, but for me, by the time I grabbed the brush the paint was thick and dry enough for me to just sort of smudge the paint along the panel, and get loads of the paintbrush fibres stuck in the paint. Needless to say I forget that method and just rollered.

To be fair, on a landy, the finish I got with poor roller quality and technique surficed and I was happy with it on my mini.

Also I imagine if you want a matt, or even satin finish then orange peel wouldn't show up. I wanted as shiny as I could get and that made the orange peel stand out more.

Stick your roller in water, even if its enamel. The water keeps the air away so it stays moist. Next use, roll out the water on newspaper and away you go!

I got my paint to paint my car from promain paints I ordered it at 3.00 and recived it at 9.00am the next day try them www.promain.co.uk

m2mps said:

I got my paint to paint my car from promain paints I ordered it at 3.00 and recived it at 9.00am the next day try them www.promain.co.uk

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m2mps said:

I got my paint to paint my car from promain paints I ordered it at 3.00 and recived it at 9.00am the next day try them www.promain.co.uk

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What paint did you buy? Photos?