Paint amount

How many coats of colour do you all recommend for painting exterior?? The more the merrier? 2 pack paint by the way
Cheers.

 

Have a read of this mate:

http://thelatebay.com/index.php?topic=4950

 

Cheers for the link. Good advice. I was going to do 4 or 5 coats as its going to be flatted back, what do we recon??

 

when i had a play with celly and flatted it back, i found about 4-5 coats to be enough, obvioulsly the more there is, the more you'll have to play with and make it perfect!

 

i put on a couple of coats then flatted that back, then another and flatted it and so on until i was happy!

 

trouble is, every coat you put on will deepen the orange peel effect, if you flat it between layers you will get a better finish! especially being like me an inexperienced sprayer the standard of finish isnt going to be amazing so you'll have more sanding to do anyway!

 

I'm only going to flat mine once. If it has a peel effect to it I don't care, it's not a show or shine bus.

 

I found that with if you flat back lightly between coats, you dont get too much orange peel, also if you flat it back with really really wet n dry after the top coat and then dont over polish it, 2 pac looks a little like celly

 

If the first coats dried off before your ready to apply the second coat then you are best to key the paint again

 

Alls good there then

 

The thicker the paint (more coats), the easier it chips. 2-pac is thick paint. One tac coat then one full coat should cover it.
If you want it perfect, yes flat the whole bus paint and repeat until you're fed up.

I honestly would advise you don't flat out all the orange peel unless you have arrow straight panels - if you make them mirror smooth, you'll make it look more rippley. Take a look at modern cars - most have slight orange peel - it looks good. )

 

Ive never flatted etch primer in my life

If you need to flat it you have put it on too thick

Quick dusting then the high build primer