Painting a van with hammerite

[nellychat]

I'm interested in how this goes as I'm thinking of painting my van when the weather improves. I've bought some military paint, and various other metal paints and have been experimenting on some scrap. Military paint seems the best so far.

[thorpy]

Do it with rustoleum type it in google, roller paint job. Its a rust stop as well.

Jay

[FredTransit]

I'm interested in how this goes as I'm thinking of painting my van when the weather improves. I've bought some military paint, and various other metal paints and have been experimenting on some scrap. Military paint seems the best so far.

I was thinking about the military paint (gloss nato sand) for me 240 volvo estate. Its already got odd wings and a bit of damage on the front passenger door so needs tidying up. Also its mostly white and the arty types hate white. Did get a fashion job with it (its minty inside) so nothing to loose now!

[thorpy]

I'm interested in how this goes as I'm thinking of painting my van when the weather improves. I've bought some military paint, and various other metal paints and have been experimenting on some scrap. Military paint seems the best so far.

I was thinking about the military paint (gloss nato sand) for me 240 volvo estate. Its already got odd wings and a bit of damage on the front passenger door so needs tidying up. Also its mostly white and the arty types hate white. Did get a fashion job with it (its minty inside) so nothing to loose now!

I did mine matt black with military vehical paint it does NOT stop rust at all!! It bleeds through really bad!

Jay

[Kestrel]

Hi,
Used hammerite on the rear bumper but always seemed to look a little thick, don't think I'd use it again.
I sprayed an ex-BT grey van with oxford blue weathershield. Did it on the street on a still, dry day; looked good and rarely needed washing as it always seemed to look clean and shiny
Just thinned the paint with cellulose thinners so it would go through the spray gun and it covered a treat. Climbed up and brushed it onto the roof, it self smoothed and required suprisingly little paint.
Regards
Kes

[FredTransit]

http://www.fordtransit.org/forum/viewto ... 3&t=144606

just done another coach enamel/roller painp job. Very pleased!

[nellychat]

I made a start on the roof with the military paint, using a combination of gloss rollers and brushes (good quality ones). The finish is ok, though if I'm honest it looks like it's been hand painted, which it has, but I wanted to have to look harder to tell. I'm going to experiment spraying a bit.

Military paint still lets rust bleed through, well it has on the bits I've treated with it. Other areas I did properly, rubbed down (rust removed), aqua steel, primer, top coat and there's no bleed through (yet). Do it properly, do it once springs to mind!

Will update once the spraying has been trialled.

[baldy1]

We used to paint a lot of vans for a guy about 10 yrs ago..
we used whatever he supplied house hold gloss bt grey hammerite .
you name it we used it..

i still see a transit bus that we painted in hammerite and it still looks good..

i prefered using tekaloid which a coachbuilder recomended goes on nice and
it was quite forgiving ie.didnt get many runs etc..

[FredTransit]

Recently had a rush job so couldnt wait for paint to come through the post. Was gona use rustoleum but it wasnt in stock in the shade l wanted. Was recommended a metal paint by Johnstone and there was a near match on thier standard colour chart. At £46 for 2.5L it was well cheap and l am pleased with the result. Got loads left too