Stripping fiberglass and...VINYL!!!

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No, not in any way, nothing worth using comes from Plastikote, Duplicolor, etc. You need to find an auto refinishing store in your area, not a parts store. All refinishing jobbers have a brand or brands that they mix, ie Dupont, Sherman Williams, RM, etc, any of these places will also have all the various Transtar, UPol,3M, etc products available. The Transtar ready to spray plastic flex primer I have found that works well all around, the number I believe is 39134, for the qt size. They also have many online autobody supply places, just be sure to watch shipping prices they can be very high on haz. materials
 
Well i do have a Sherwin Williams store near my home BUT never went in to see what they sell.... i'm not sure if they have automotive stuff... So it's a flex PRIMER that i need and not a CLEAR??? One more thing... I just remembered that i have one quart of each color of GP in stock, remains of his repaint job but still almost full.... Firstly, would it be enough of each to cover entirely both of my bumper fillers and header panel, considering that the coats must be VERY THIN on the fillers? and secondly, if i plan to shoot with a modeler's aibrush (i want the job to be VERY precise LOL), how shoud i thin or mix the paint??
 
First off, no a "Sherman Williams" store is not for automotive, they sell house paint and industrial paint. You need to find a parts store that mixes paint, or an autobody supply store in your area, or order it online like I said. I have four jobbers near my house, one is a Parts Plus store that mixes PPG and sells all the autobody supplies, one is called AutoFinishers, they sell crash parts, and autobody supplies. You get the idea. Next you need to buy a pre-flexed primer, or a standard primer that you add the flex agent to, the same with the clear. The Transtar primer I mentioned is just a pre-packaged primer, you can use any primer or clear you want, but you have to add the correct flex agent to it. If you choose to buy online, Transtar has the primer I listed, as well as clears available. If the qt's of paint you have are already reduced you would be cutting it close to paint all that, if they are not reduced you have enough, most base coats are 1-1, or 2-1 with the correct reducer. You can't use an air brush to do that work, it will look like sh*t, automotive base coats are designed to be sprayed through a standard HVLP gun, usually a 1.4-1.5 tip, same with the clear. If your car was painted by someone you should contact them to see where they bought the supplies, you should use a clear from the same manufacture as the base coat.
 
Spray cans are ok for the base coat, but you still need to clear them. Clear comes in cans but its not hardened, the two part clears where you pop the hardener in on the bottom are way to expensive IMO
 
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