depends where your painting

i used a roller as i was working in the family garage full of all the family's stuff as well as the camper

if i had used a spray gun there would of been over spray everywhere and not popular with the wife

 

Mate of mine did his bus with a roller, I did mine with a HVLP setup. Both looked great!!

Sorry, that won't help your decision much!!

 

From those two replies I'm thinking roller ......
What did you key the exsisting paint with? Grit wise, there seems to be a range from 180 on an orb to 600 by hand??
Cheers

 

got some 180 grit disks for my orb sander to give it a key on the old paint and some 600 for between coats (wet) excited!
Spent under £42 on mixed paint which came out great, i asked for dove blue.
and £38 for a brush, two roller packs and 10 spare rollers, two 5 packs of orb paper, masking tape and some micro towels for wiping down....

£80 paint job coming up....

 

brought my paint from here

http://www.tools-paint.com/combicolor-7300-gloss-metal-paint-any-colour-25-litres-7084-p.asp





i'm sure if you type in that VW code to the REF section when ordering they'll know what you want as i found a thread on here and they had an AC number on the label of their dove blue, but guessing as they are mixing a lot of VW colours now just the VW code will do

 

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
I roller painted this a couple of years back:

Only gave it one coat and didn't mop it afterwards but it looked decent enough from a few feet away.

 

cheers buddy, have a look in general chat, near the top, i've made a start today and added pics

Thanks looks good for a single coat! thinned much?

 

Thinned 50/50 with white spirit. Would have been better thinned a bit more as the foam roller made pock marks in the finish.

 

how were you loading up the roller and rolling that? did it not run like fook? maybe i'm just loading too much up?

everyday is a school day! after my first coat being thick i'm going for thin coats now!

 

Roller it.... I found BandQ rollers are the best I have done my beetle this year

 

yeah i got the ten pack of refills from there
two coats between 600 grit flatting?

 

Ive done both, im more partial to the spray gun if you have the facilites, mostly extraction.

With rollers, I personally had a lot of prep between each coats, where as with a spray gun I didn't bother, until the end. I did use a cheap paint with the rollers, so maybe that was the particular problem.

 

i know what your saying! i don't really have the (any) extraction, have you got a green bug down here in Cornwall?