Re: earl, maaco, do it yourself auto paint, or both?

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:52:12 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent P)
wrote:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, AZGuy wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 02:44:01 GMT, "Z.Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>>>pete selby wrote:
>>>
>>>> Some years ago, my brother painted my car with a Wagner electric gun.
>>>> It looked good from across the street if you squinted and it was
>>>> raining in the dark.   ...
>>>
>>>My brother once painted his old Ford Econoline with enamel with a brush. It 
>>>actually didn't look all that bad. I also knew a guy in college who painted 
>>>his car with spray cans. Took a couple cases. I think my brother's brush 
>>>job looked better...
>> 
>> 
>> I've been successful painting small areas with paint cans.  But I
>> tried to do a hood with paint cans and it just drys too fast to allow
>> you to work your way across and down and get back to the top before
>> it's too dry to blend the next pattern in.  It was still an
>> improvement over what it was (all chalked and peeled) but hardly a
>> good looking job.
>
>Just theory here, but my guess is that with the right kind of paint and
>very high quality brush one could get a result that could be wet sanded 
>and polished to look pretty good. 
>
>Much like a proper touch up procedure but on a large scale.
>

Might be hard to do with metallic paint...