Roller paint Silvia
 

Most of you prolly have seen this thread in one form or another, but for those who havent, check this out!
Import Atlanta Roller paint thread

This paint technique piqued my interest so much that I decided to try it out on project Silvia. The paint was already crummy and didnt match the JDM front end so I figured whats the worst that could happen?

Sorry for the bad pics, was taken with a camera phone.

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Here is a semi-before pic, Notice that the bottom here is painted black. The original plan was to do a grey on black two tone job. I decided to go with full on black after I saw how well the gloss black went on. The grey was a little too flat for my taste.
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Here is a S13 model I put together to see what grey n black would look like. Nice, but the full on black is really warming up to me
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I kept the hood silver...not to look ricey or nuth'n. Im getting an OEM style CF hood soon, so I didnt want to waste time and paint. Tell me what ya think?

-Bobby

That looks sick man. I haven't seen a job that good in a while.

Clean. I'm jealous! Looks a hundred times better than mine!:thumb:

Nice, I'd do the roller paint job if I had the room and time.

Zomg. Nice. Im gonna spray mine with the rustoleum though, and satin black. chukis look sexy in satin black.

Thnks, ill get some finnished pics up today.

cool i did this paint job on my car but in white, came out pretty good, takes a lot of wetsanding tho.

Damn, I never heard of that, sh!t looks hella clean though. We got so many primered 240s over here, I need to tell them about this technique

Cool

i'd paint my car a new color but i still have to do bodywork -_-

rocker panel is smashed...so i just covered it with sideskirts..lol

so hows orange peal? i always heard people say black never came out good with a roller, doesnt look that bad, mind posting some better pics when you can?

Orange peal hasnt been bad, I got a good mixture goin. Ill post some real camera pics up is I can, but my camera phone is all i got right now.

I need to paint just my replacement pignose bumper, and i was wondering if this method will work on the bumper, which is not metal? I would really like to try this and save me some money. Also, would they be able to match my color with this brand of paint?

Yeah the paint is meant to adhere to anything. And im pretty sure you could get it matched at home depot or wherever you buy it at. make sure you read the other threads from other forums really good and get all the right stuff cause if you dont do it right it will look like crap. be prepared to do alot of wet sanding! haha. good luck

I saw that it takes a lot of sanding. And since the bumper i am painting is jsut kickin it next to the garage, im in no hurry to get it done. The only reason i ask about the color, is i was at Home Depot today and looked at the cans of this paint and only found one red color, now would i just bring them a sample and ask if they can match the color to that brand?

well in one of the threads in that other forum, the guy said they can mix it to any color, so idk. I would just bring the sample and talk to the guys at Home Depot, they will now way more about mixing than me!