Re: Painting over chromed plastic? Reply #30 – November 19, 2004, 09:26:10 PM Yep, spin the nozzle around with your fingernail. It even says so somewhere on the can. :p Quote Selected
Re: Painting over chromed plastic? Reply #31 – November 19, 2004, 10:22:34 PM Quote from: Bird351It even says so somewhere on the can. :ppeople actually read instructions?! :p For general use, I just use Krylon paint. I haven't found the $0.99/cans at walmarts here but they've been known to be that cheap in other areas. Surprisingly, it comes from the same company as duplicolor (addresses are exactly the same). They even use the same cans (besides the label), caps, and nozzles....and it looks like I'll have to use a spaceheater and sand/paint my grill tomorrow. It turned out good until I went into the garage a couple hours after spraying primer. It was cracked in a couple spots. It can be hard to paint in shady areas when under 60ºF Quote Selected
Re: Painting over chromed plastic? Reply #32 – November 20, 2004, 05:44:09 PM okay, I give up on metallic paints all together. It looked good up until the point it was time to clearcoat it. Now the paint just looks light grey.Wonder if I can find a paint similar to body color since obviously thats my only choice other than spending $35 on a new grill or removing all the paint and trying to keep the metal coating under the chrome Quote Selected
Re: Painting over chromed plastic? Reply #33 – November 20, 2004, 05:49:01 PM There's no way in hell I'd use any spray paint pretending to be a particular metal. (chrome, gold-plating, whatever) I've tried them in the past, and they were awful.. plus I've seen others around here commenting negatively on them.Yeah, I'd say try color-matching it to the body.. which is what I'm doing, more or less.. the body just hasn't been painted that color yet. :D Quote Selected
Re: Painting over chromed plastic? Reply #34 – November 20, 2004, 06:02:39 PM I was just going with a reflective metallic (which it is) but it doesn't appear to like clearcoat. My guess is that its something about the paint and the oxygen surrounding it. If you take off the top layer of the paint after it dries, the stuff underneath is just horrid. I was hoping that letting it dry reflective and clearcoating over would work but I guess I was wrong Quote Selected
Re: Painting over chromed plastic? Reply #35 – November 22, 2004, 05:19:03 PM Well, I finally clear-coated it today.- Only clearcoat I could find at the time was some 500 deg. engine stuff.. doesn't seem to be a problem here.- There was a mark on the grille from the Bird emblem, but it's not a big problem.- Had a little bit more orange peel with this one.- I sprayed it 3 different times within about 20 minutes. Very light first coat, then I did the other two coats until they *just* started turning milky on me.I'm satisfied with the results. Quote Selected
Re: Painting over chromed plastic? Reply #36 – November 23, 2004, 04:52:28 PM Unrelated to the grille painting.. but I wanted to post a pic of this somewhere.The blue is Dupli-Color 500 degree Ford Blue. I taped off the exposed metal of the Ford logo and the 5.0 Liter EFI stuff and painted that in Wal-Mart flat black, with 2 coats of 500 degree clearcoat over it. It's not meant to look perfect, just improved.Painted over a bunch of hoses and connections.. but I intend to replace all that stuff, anyway.. the vacuum lines are falling apart. Quote Selected
Re: Painting over chromed plastic? Reply #37 – November 24, 2004, 01:57:46 AM you can fix any problem with clearcoat easily with rubbing compound and if you want it perfectly flat, sand with a sanding block and then use rubbing compound. Looks good though. Now if only the rest of the car looked like the grill does in the picture... :p On the intake, I like the "color" it comes from the factory with. I've always liked the look of metal more than paint. Looks good though. I've really gotta take the upper intake off my car and replace the pcv hose soon. I'm down to 13mpg. 15 a month ago. 18 before that (all city) Quote Selected
Re: Painting over chromed plastic? Reply #38 – December 01, 2004, 10:23:03 PM OK, so I still just have the grille as the only green on the car.. and no significant amount of the pewter on the outside. But, behold, pewter! Quote Selected
Re: Painting over chromed plastic? Reply #39 – December 01, 2004, 10:33:23 PM Quote from: Seekyou can fix any problem with clearcoat easily with rubbing compound and if you want it perfectly flat, sand with a sanding block and then use rubbing compound. Looks good though. Now if only the rest of the car looked like the grill does in the picture... :p On the intake, I like the "color" it comes from the factory with. I've always liked the look of metal more than paint. Looks good though. I've really gotta take the upper intake off my car and replace the pcv hose soon. I'm down to 13mpg. 15 a month ago. 18 before that (all city)Y'know, I missed your reply before this got buried. I should probably stop relying on the newest post function on the main index. :pThe clearcoat on the car's trashed.. that's why I'm going to repaint it, eventually. On the spots where it isn't trashed, the blue looks pretty good.I messed up on the clearcoat on that trim picture up there.. it fell over into my hand and I got a fingertip smudge just below the lock button hole. However, shooting just a little bit more clearcoat on there and letting it dry flat, you can barely tell. I like clearcoat. :DAs for the manifold: I can appreciate the look of the manifold the way it was.. but I also like to see the old Ford colors. Ford red w/ a green car would've looked a little too holiday-ish.. so Ford blue it was. I'll probably do the engine as a mix of Ford blue and gloss black.. just like that manifold. Quote Selected
Re: Painting over chromed plastic? Reply #40 – December 02, 2004, 01:14:11 AM your pewter door lock trim looks better than my aluminum plates I made for my car Quote Selected
Re: Painting over chromed plastic? Reply #41 – December 02, 2004, 02:22:30 AM oh, my comment on clearcoat was just for spraying the stuff for the first time. Old/aged clearcoat doesn't have as deep a shine as newer stuff does so fixing whats already on the car is near impossible.I take it pewter's a color Quote Selected
Re: Painting over chromed plastic? Reply #42 – December 02, 2004, 12:48:56 PM Quote from: SeekI take it pewter's a color:DWhy, yes.. it's the color of this helmet: Quote Selected
Re: Painting over chromed plastic? Reply #43 – December 02, 2004, 10:04:47 PM are u talking about painting over the chrome tpuppies on the car? Quote Selected
Re: Painting over chromed plastic? Reply #44 – December 02, 2004, 10:14:25 PM We were originally talking about painting over the chrome on the grille, which I did. Quote Selected
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