chalkboarding best way?

[ashbuster]

hey guys in the middle of chalkboarding my bonet
i was just wondering do you give it a quick sand over between coats?

[Tontsy]

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i have posted, numerous times on how to do this.
i get asked nearly every day, and respond to all!
search and ye will find!

but seriously, chalking is getting wayyy too common now!

i tried a tonne of ways of doing it!
best way i found, which id did the whole car in, in the end was

clean the surface and spray with a matte black rattle can
use a light scotch pad to rub over the matte black, only lightly
roller the chalkboard paint on, a little goes ALONG way!
its thicker than people think, i have 3-4 coats on mine and i took a hedge strimmer to it and it barly made a scratch! did it on my supervisors car, normal paint work and it stripped it too metal.

between coats, id allow about an hour to dry!
dont let anyway draw on i for 2-3 days though so its dry all the way through!

wet it rains, it will look gloss, as it absorbs moisture
it dries in minutes
the rain will clean it so you dont have too.


if you want to take it off, use a sharp blade and scrape it off...when you get to the matte that will flake off in a jet wash if your tough enough.

[ashbuster]

yeah i know how to do it mate just needed to know about between coats
see i gave it the 2nd coat without sanding i just rollered straight over the top
and i was told by someone last nite i should have sanded it over lightly first
just wondered if i did it right

[Tontsy]

yeah i know how to do it mate just needed to know about between coats
see i gave it the 2nd coat without sanding i just rollered straight over the top
and i was told by someone last nite i should have sanded it over lightly first
just wondered if i did it right


its rough and tough enough to give a good coat for the next one!
the hole point of "keying" the surface, is to give the next coat something to grip onto.
but as its not a soft/smooth finish anyway, it works fine. just make sure its dry.

[ashbuster]

ahh nice one
yeah i gave it a good couple of hours maybe more to make sure the surface was dry

[ashbuster]

ohh and im not doing it to follow a load of bummers
im doing it to save 600 quid on a spray job when i will just sell this next year
and im not going to get a extra 600 quid for a good paint job when i come to sell will i

[Tontsy]

600 quid to respray a bonnet? . . .

[ashbuster]

whole car mate lol
ill either sell it next year for a new car if i get bored or garage it
the green looks good in a pik but shit up close it isnt a real spray job it was canned by chavs

u realy got a zonda?

[ian-bru]

sees some pictures of your bonnet mate

[ashbuster]

will take one tomorrow mate its too dark now
the whole car will be like this they all look the same when done
have a look at tonto's mate , his is one of the first i seen and looks good

[SaxSpeed]

can you thin it down and spray it?

[ashbuster]

im not sure to be honest mate tonto will know
its the first time i seen this paint stuff its wierd and thick
i was suprised when i did my bonnet and after 2 coats it looks realy good and it was straight on the top of grey primer that i sanded before the coat
hopefully if the weather is good tomorrow i will do the whole car ,
i decided to do it when i seen tonto's and munkeys , realy cheap to do
just had to get rid of that stupid green and atleast make it look drivable lol
wouldnt wanna be seen driving around a chavved up giant green lettuce, im suprised it never came with lexus lights lol

[ian-bru]

nice, was gonna do my bonnet today but far to hungover.
got a silver vtr, planning on matt blacking alloys, mirror caps + other wee thing and black tints to go with it.