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James Higgon
05-13-2012, 4:40 PM
Can someone please help me, I have rung several paint shops and tried two signmakers. No one has heard of this "undiluted car paint" that I need. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Also how deep should I be engraving if I am to colour fill. Thanks for everyones help on this

Michael Hunter
05-13-2012, 6:19 PM
You could try car repair bodyshops to see if they have some left-overs you could experiment with - and they might also tell you who their suppliers are.

In the UK, car paint (for professional car re-sprayers) is handled by specialised warehouses - not by firms supplying the building and decorating trades.
Car bodyshops are so common that there is a paint supplier in most towns. Google car paint (or in the US, auto paint?).

Scott Shepherd
05-13-2012, 7:38 PM
We use the tubes of acrylic paint that painters would use to paint a painting. It's in all the art stores. It's in a tube and it's thick like toothpaste. That along with a stack of business cards people have given me, and you can spread it right in and a fresh edge on a card cleans the excess away well. Let it dry, hit it with a little cleaner (doesn't matter what), and you'll be done. It works very well.

And from that day forward, you'll collect business cards everywhere you go so you'll have a pile when you need them. It's just standard acrylic paint in a tube. The thicker, the better.

Joe Pelonio
05-13-2012, 11:07 PM
same here (acrylic in tubes) but I have used automotive to spray metal letters and even acrylic letters to look like metal, and it's readily available at several auto body supplies in the area. Generally these places will be found in the more industrial areas near the auto body shops.

Rodne Gold
05-14-2012, 1:56 AM
Just have a look in your Yellow pages for Automotive paint suppliers or ask your local panel beater. All it is is car duco/paint without the thinners.

Mike Null
05-14-2012, 7:02 AM
I use acrylic craft paints, acrylic rattle cans, acrylic tubes and air brush paints. You can match any auto paint with air brush paints--just do a search.

James Higgon
05-14-2012, 8:10 AM
Ok great. For now ill try the acrylic paint that comes in the tubes as I know a shop near me does that. How deep should I be engraving?

Scott Shepherd
05-14-2012, 8:35 AM
A little deeper than just the surface. Just depends on the height of the letters, etc, and what you personally like. We go fairly deep because I hate having to fight it when it's too shallow (the paint will keep rubbing out when you try to clean it).

Rodne Gold
05-14-2012, 8:58 AM
As I said in the previous post , large areas and big letters need to be engraved deep and filled with thickish paint , if you use a thin layer type paint and engrave shallow , the ridging at the bottom of the "cavity" that you always get with a laser,shows and can be unsightly.
The thick paint will allow a nice even glossy fill.
So it depends what you are doing , thin lines only in the drawing can be done shallow and you can use spray paint.