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I consider all Halfords rattle cans to be utter shite, (except their Satin Black)......however if you vist you local supplier of paint for car body shops, they will usually mix aerosol paint in virtually any colour, in Cellulose, far superior coverage and quality....you can get a really good finish for not a lot of money...
I bought some paint online once to respray the mirror plastic on my old car from a car body supplier and it was night and day different, so much more colour in the paint. And I got some clearcoat bunged in as well for roughly the same price.
Some 1k is 'topcoat' i.e has its own gloss, some dries satinish and meant for clearing after. O'course you don't have to, but for gloss that's the idea. Pearls/metallic all need clearing to cover the particles over.
The std tins are only 300ml which is titchy but OK for small car touch-ups; any such paint is going to be ~50% thinners so in a 300 tin that's a small amount of solids. The round dot nozzle doesn't help if you're trying to cover a flat area either. It's not that the paint is terrible as much as they're not set up really for anything but touch-ups.
Many moons ago since I used their cans but they were Ok within the limits of what they're meant for, and their paint supplier might be totally different now.
I sprayed my recent partscaster build with Wilkos own brand spray paint.
Few light coats of primer, a whole can of colour in several very light coats and a few coats of clearcoat. I warmed it slightly first and it goes on really quite well. Flatted and polished and I'm really happy with the results, especially as it was my first time spraying a body from scratch.
https://imgur.com/a/Y9qWOgQ
It was a long time ago, but I've done 4 or 5 spraycan finishes on guitar bodies (and necks).
Holts Dupli-Colour, if I remember right. They made a grey filler/primer which was good for getting a nice flat surface before spraying colour coats. Turned out fine, and they still look OK 30 years later.
The only time it went wrong was when I used a metallic colour then sprayed clear coats over the top - the clear coats went all checked/crazed, but not in a relic kind of way...
Thanks @randella @Clecko
The whole project was based on a picture of an old Charvel. Good spot.
Sorry for the thread hijack @axisus
No not nitro. It's this...... (gratuitously framed picture)......
https://imgur.com/a/xil0yu2