Dupli-Color Perfect Match Paint

[NeilSmith]

My jobber can mix your paint code in the same basecoat paint that a shop would use and then put it in a spray can . Maybe you can try that route. Check the phone book for a DuPont paint supply store or the like. What we should really do is have a huge wrenching party and I could show all you guys how to repair, paint, and buff out your whole rig.

[Matt]

I think my best "quick" option would be to get some of the etching primer, paint the whole thing with that... and then get some white matte primer and paint it white with that. My theory is if I'm going to paint it white, why not use white primer and then later on if I decide to paint it something else, it's already primer'd. Thoughts?

Or should I try a gloss white top coat to help it blend a little more with the paint? I'm afraid of trying to hard to make it blend, so then it looks weird.

Also, after i do the rear bumper I'm thinking it would be a good idea to take the front bumper off and paint it the same to help distribute the look so it's a bit more "complete". May also cut up the front bumper during this as well...

[Matt]

So I got word that my rear bumper might actually be getting produced soon

....now i'm back on thinking about how to paint it.

The clear coat is what brings out the gloss/smoothness in the paint finish correct? I'm back to thinking about getting the duplicolor perfect-match spray and not clear coating it; so it'll be a matte finish of my existing paint color code; kind of like how people get line-x their fenders/bumpers and mix in the matching paint colors- it's the same color, just not shiny.

Plan would be:
1) add swirl marks to metal surface with steel wool
2) clean with grease-remover that doesn't leave residue
3) self etching primer
4) Duplicolor stone white (my paint color) spray

Total cost would be ~$60 (and that's ordering a case of 6 8oz cans of the duplicolor)