Dupli-color Paint

T-bone71

T-bone71

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Has anyone used or have any experience with the Dupli-Color Paint Shop Line of paints? It's supposedly pre-mixed and ready to spray in various colors. I need to put some paint on my rig so the exposed tube won't rust, but a couple of hundred bucks for a gallon of automotive paint isn't in the budget. But about a hundred bucks for a gallon of this stuff can work, even if it has to be redone in a couple of years from now is ok. Besides we all know how these things get beat up. Just wondering how well it goes on, how it looked, and how it last.......reasonably?. I don't want it to look like a rattle can, but it doesnt have to look lke a show rig either.
 
Never used it. But a few people on here, myself include have used rustolem in the quart cans thinned with mineral spirits sprayed with a gun with good results. If you search some of my old post there are some pictures under my Jeep build

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No experience with that stuff, but Dupli-Color's wheel paint is some of the best spraying rattle-can I've ever used. Lays down quick and even and looks great. If that's indicative of what their pre-mix is like, I think you'll be happy. I've also seen some really good results from the TSC tractor paint, but I personally don't like Valspar products.
 
I'd be tempted to try it. I don't have any experience with their pre-mixed paint, but I am a huge fan of their rattle cans.
 
I went ahead and got it, i'll see how it goes
 
I used the Dupli Color Perfect Match (rattle can) on my doors, hi-line fenders, rear armor, cage, and sliders and was pretty pleased with how it turned out:

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Any industrial enamel with some gloss hardener will work.
 
I use nason fast dry enamel and I use a high gloss additive and it does great, shows some trash but over all I am pleased with how it turns out, I have a buddy that sprays his trailers with rustoleum enamel and it turned out great as well. If you are looking for new car finish, any pre mix paint isn't going to work for you, might as well throw a rattle can to it and callit a day or buy the urethane and do it right.
 
Just thought I would add that all the dupli color paints are made here in Greensboro so support the local economy and paint that sucker.
 
Chris at marsfab sprayed my race jeep with the paintshop stuff. Worked pretty well. Some colors seem a little thick out of the can. They can be thinned with acetone though.
 
I sprayed the Dupli-color primer that goes with the line of paint last night......... i wasnt real happy the way it sprayed on, but i was spraying with a top feed hvlp gun and not a primer gun. It sprayed kind of a "splatter" pattern and didn't spray evenly but leveled out when it dried, so it may have been the paint gun and not so much the primer itself. I'm spraying the color tonight so we'll see how that does, i'll post pics when its done. I gotta keep telling myself its a trail rig not a street car/mall crawler, so i don't have to be perfect.
 
Here's what it looks like after paint. The upside is that Dupi-color rattle can is a great match for touch up
 

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Yeah most times I see them using paint whether its rattle can or what it is a dupli color product
 
The paint is mixed "hot" for a fast dry. It was dry by the time it hit the floor and all i had to do was sweep up the paint dust. BUT is didn't have time to gloss up before it dried. On the upside, Dupli-Color rattle can is an almost exact match.
 
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