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Price of auto lacquer paints!

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  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Price of auto lacquer paints!
Posted by Don Stauffer on Friday, February 3, 2012 9:09 AM

I often use auto paint in spray cans, like the Duplicolor stuff.  I use it on cars for a nice gloss paint job, and use black for an undercoat for Alclad.  Very glossy but still dries fast.

Recent trip to auto parts store showed a big jump in prices.  The small cans are gone, now only big cans, at about eight bucks a can!  That is about double what I paid the last time I bought the stuff a year or two ago.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

  • Member since
    August 2006
  • From: Arkansas
Posted by K-dawg on Friday, February 3, 2012 9:17 AM

Yup... The car guys in my model circle us a 2 part clear gloss that cost about $100 for a half gallon or something. They go in an split it so it's not too bad, a little goes a long way. However, I think it's worth it because I watched one of them take a bare black primer car body and turn it into the deepest wettest shine you've ever seen in about 5 minutes.... easy as pie.

Kenneth Childres, Central Arkansas Scale Modelers

  • Member since
    January 2009
  • From: San Antonio
Posted by paintsniffer on Friday, February 3, 2012 9:53 AM

K-dawg

Yup... The car guys in my model circle us a 2 part clear gloss that cost about $100 for a half gallon or something. They go in an split it so it's not too bad, a little goes a long way. However, I think it's worth it because I watched one of them take a bare black primer car body and turn it into the deepest wettest shine you've ever seen in about 5 minutes.... easy as pie.

 

As with a lot of things, you get what you pay for.

Excuse me.. Is that an Uzi?

  • Member since
    August 2011
  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by GreenThumb on Sunday, February 5, 2012 7:15 PM

K-dawg

Yup... The car guys in my model circle us a 2 part clear gloss that cost about $100 for a half gallon or something. They go in an split it so it's not too bad, a little goes a long way. However, I think it's worth it because I watched one of them take a bare black primer car body and turn it into the deepest wettest shine you've ever seen in about 5 minutes.... easy as pie.

Sounds like urethane catalyzed clear like HOK. Very dangerous stuff!

Mike

 

 

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