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he all.

bought a SE rear lower lip spoiler second hand and its red... my cars gold soo yeah going to paint the lip as im to lazy to paint the whole car to match it

um yeah so im thinking this would be an ideal item to practice/learn spraying on so when it comes to it i can do my own front bar and maybe the whole car one day if i get good enough.

basically i was wondering if anyone knows of some good online guides and/or where and what supplies and equipment ill will need. such as where to buy paint and clears? what gun to buy and so on.


cheers

a.irwin

If you're only doing the lower lip then you should just get a can of the matching colour made up from Autobarn, get some clear and one sheet each of 600, 800, 1200, 1500 wet and dry sandpaper and prep it until it is really smooth to the touch and then paint it with the spray cans.

kinda setting myself up to do a whole front bar latter on though and maybe the whole car even later

Getting a professional to paint it is so cheap I wouldn't bother trying to do it myself.

painting ther rear lip would prolly be ok with the supercheap can. You'll also get some practice. Patience is the big winner.It will not suffer too much from chips. But I wouln't don't do the front bumper that way. Its not worth while. You will have heaps of stone chips in no time.

Okibi......I still have to find a cheap painter.I find you get what you pay for.......generally.

If you're planning on doing the whole car then you will need to become an expert wet-sander in a hurry. Every good looking paint job is the result of meticulous preperation. That is the biggest hurdle to overcome. Oncde you think you have wet-sanded your car tpo perfection, you will probably need to go over it at least once more otherwise the paint will look like crap.

I've never painted a full-sized car, but I've painted a lot of models over the years.
Model cars, boats, helicopters and other things.
Some of the models I built had 300+ hours in them (model helicopters are such complicated things, especially when they have a scale fuselage) and the one thing I learned from a very young age is that when it comes to painting, 90% of the time is spent in preparation and only 5% in spraying, the other 5% is cleaning up.
It doesn't matter how good a painter you may be, if the item isn't prepared properly, it will look like crap.
Another little tip, as the rear bumper is flexible, make sure you get an undercoat and a top coat that will also move with the item and not crack up the first time the bumper is flexed.