Car Painter's?

[Taysby]

Does anyone know how to paint cars?  I'm looking into plasti-dipping a soft top triumph spitfire (does anyone know anything about them?) with chameleon, and I have no idea what I'm doing.  Advice would be appreciated.  I have the idea to do it in a bright chameleon, with some darker chameleon racing stripes.  good or bad idea?  I'm also considering dipyourcar.com's flip color paint series.  It does the same thing as chameleon, but with 2 main colors.  a third one normally pops up as a transition color though.

[Rass]

Pay a professional. By the time you buy all the equipment and tools needed it's not worth it unless you plan on going into business doing it.

[VQMracing]

In all honesty, the Plasti dipping is fairly simple, if you are doing it yourself though, just make sure you have a place with just a slight breeze, and not kicking up dirt or anything, if there is no wind the paint particles will fall back on the the dip and make it real rough and textured.

[MuggyWuggy]

You .love. up and then your car looks even worse and then you have to pay a pro to fix it

[Piotr]

Or you learn a new skill or new hobby? Learning is healthy for your brain

[Rass]

By all means go for it. I knew a body shop guy who painted cars. He had light heat lamps and a dust free area with a vacuum for the area. He did a great job on my motorcycle. He told me you me a place dust free for it to dry and lamps to bake it in. Sure learning new skills are great but IMO sometimes it's worth it to pay a professional. Again if you plan on doing this often go for it. I just don't see why you would want to buy lights and breathing apparatus.

[VQMracing]

Probably bad for my health but we didn't even use respirators when we shot, just outside on a nice day.

[Piotr]

By all means go for it. I knew a body shop guy who painted cars. He had light heat lamps and a dust free area with a vacuum for the area. He did a great job on my motorcycle. He told me you me a place dust free for it to dry and lamps to bake it in. Sure learning new skills are great but IMO sometimes it's worth it to pay a professional. Again if you plan on doing this often go for it. I just don't see why you would want to buy lights and breathing apparatus.

Lights can be used for marine fishtanks also, or photography, or <pick your own>, and breathing apparatus is a good thing to have in any case

[Pi]

Or just have your {Painter's servant} do it for you