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Originally Posted by tbzep
I use Valspar and Rustoleum lacquers and Rustoleum enamels for most of the usual colors. I pull out the airbrush for those hard to find colors. If you are only needing gloss white and gloss black, Walmart Colorplace works well.
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+1 to this... couldn't agree more...
Dump ANY "primer and paint in one" into the nearest trash can or yard sale, unless you need to paint wicker lawn furniture or your lawnmower or something... that stuff is WORTHLESS for getting a HIGH QUALITY finish on anything, including and especially ROCKETS...
It's just for chronically lazy know-nothing consumers wanting "quick, cheap, and dirty" paint jobs on crap around the house and garage, nothing SERIOUS. You CANNOT get a good-high-quality finish without PROPERLY priming and sanding the surface to get good surface preparation, period. 95% of getting a good finish is SURFACE PREP. There's no "magic lotion or potion" shortcuts if you want a great finish.
if you just want the surface covered with *something* that looks better than *nothing* that crap might work. Otherwise, if you want something GOOD, you have to go farther and work for a little more...
Not knocking YOU, but I would suggest that if you want a really nice finish, you have to dump that worthless crap and get some GOOD PRIMER, sand the surface to prepare it PROPERLY, and then apply a GOOD PAINT. Note here that "GOOD" does NOT automatically equate to "more expensive". I've gotten museum-quality finishes out of Wal-Mart Colorplace 99 cent a can primer and paint, IF DONE CORRECTLY (got two rockets I built sitting in the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Museum right now). It's PROPER PROCEDURES that make the difference-- of course it's not that materials are unimportant, but you have to have the RIGHT materials...
IOW, a lousy paint or paint/primer combo is going to produce lousy results... but good techniques and skills can perhaps make it "acceptable"... Good materials, even the BEST that MONEY CAN BUY, will NOT guarantee a great finish without the proper skills and techniques behind it... and poor skills and techniques will result in poor results no matter HOW "fancy" the materials used...
Make sense??
Good luck! OL JR
PS... Duplicolor is another very good brand! Dump Krylon...