My dad helped me paint the front nose on the Miata yesterday. The paint had peeled off about 90% of the front nose and it looked absolutely terrible. I eventually want to get the car out to Rogue for a proper paint job, but I'll have to save up for that. I figure what's about $15 and a day to at at least have an entire black car again and not have to shrink in the seat to avoid being seen pulling into the school parkinglot... Actually, overall I am impressed with how it came out.
We spent most of the day on prepwork, sanding and all that. We used this Krylon Fusion, plastic outdoor paint...only reason we got this is because of the flex agent in the paint. Figured it would be more durable as well being outdoor paint. We did about 4 coats, sanding inbetween to get rid of the orangepeel and overspray caused by wind.
After the first two coats a bird freaking crapped on the pretty fresh paint while it was drying, right in the middle. What are the odds...I don't even have any trees in front of my house...
Turned out pretty good. Im dissappointed with the gloss of this paint, although it went on suprisingly even for a rattle can. In a few weeks im going to see if I can buff it out a little and wax it. If that fails i'll put a coat of high gloss on it, or expierement with a clearcoat...I dont know, we'll see how it goes. Any advise for getting a shine out of rattle can outdoor paint??
Actually, if I could paint the whole car with this type of semi gloss it would be awesome! Something I might consider later.
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Again, I know it probably wont hold up too long, this is only temporary untill I can afford a proper paint job, it's better than a cow spotted white/black bumper. The car looked so bad I was embarrassed to be seen driving the damn thing.
**Edit: those spots here and there are water drops from the dew. I took the pics early this morning after I pulled the masking bags out of the turn signals and got water drops here and there.
