Professional BACKYARD Paint-Job Using Only Spray Cans! 

I’m not a painter. But I do spray paint with rattle cans quite a bit. I’ve never gotten a good finish in the past, at least not something that would pass for a “shop job”. I have even tried what I used to call “Dupli-Crap” in the past and never had any successful outcome. After watching about a million of your vids, I decided to give your “rattle can” process a try. I bought the primer, base coat, 2K clearcoat, sandpapers, tack rag, micro-towels, Sprayway, respirator, pretty much everything that you linked except the lab coat. I had a new front fender that still had the manufacturer’s primer on it (is it really primer?). I followed every step you provided - EXACTLY. The only deviation was that I didn’t use the “quadrant” method and I didn’t spray outside the garage. I even mounted the fender in my garage exactly like it would be positioned on the vehicle (just a bit higher to make spraying easier). After cleaning, scuffing, and cleaning the black paint, I nervously sprayed 2 coats of primer following your instructions explicitly. I followed this with 4 coats of base, again applying them exactly as you said (except for quadrants), and then 3 coats of clear. The result is that I now have a new fender that looks like it came straight out of the factory! It actually looks better than the truck it's going on. No drips. No runs. No errors. Perfect finish.

Hey Brian, thank you for not being a paint booth diva, too many guys on here really discourage and talk down diy painting without a TV production type setup. You, Pharraway and Sprayway Customs are possibly the greatest channels on the topic, you guys really bring the knowledge and provide the encouragement

What a dream of a backyard. The water is flowing at a perfect pace and just the right amount of sparkle and just the right amount of palm trees. What a blessing.

For anyone in the comments worried about orange peel when using a spray can, let me assure you - with some good sanding and cutting afterwards, you'll have a better finish than alot of cars come out the factory with. I've been re-spraying an entire back bumper, front bumper, all sorts with a spray can. After 2-3 coats of clear and suitable drying time, I flat back the clear with 1200, 1500, 2000 and then possibly 2500. I then cut with Farecla super fast compound, followed by your favourite polish. The results have genuinely being astonishing. Would it be 10x easier with a booth, compressor and gun? Yes. But with a little more effort put in after the painting is done, a spray can job can look incredible too.

I replayed my entire car with spray cans. Spray max 2k clear. Paint was virtually flawless out of the can. Did a light wet sand on each panel and it was like a mirror. Best paint I've ever seen in my entire life tbh

You really nailed it with the rattle cans. I was an automotive painter for more than 35 yrs. and I have to say I'm impressed with you're end results. I painted one of my Rc boats using 2k rattle can clear and had awesome results also. It's just a matter of prepping things right and taking you're time when painting this way.Great job!

I worked at a Land Rover and there was a painter, he have a spot in the lot to paint work out of his van. He’s out there in the summer and winter doing his thing. He does a lot of high end cars, that shows how far knowledge and technique can go a long way.

Shaving the engine bay of my EM1 and started watching these videos to get an idea as to what to expect when I finally paint. I've learned a heck of a lot in just a couple of your videos! Thanks for the legit content my dude.

I really appreciate all the work you do to show others how to achieve a nice glossy finish to car parts, etc. I am currently working on some parts on my nine yr old truck and the knowledge you share has been incredibly helpful. Thank you so much!!

Very pretty backyard environment in the new house Brian. The view alone with your morning coffee would relax you.

Yes absolutely you helped me, I’ve been attempting rattle can jobs for the last 10 years or so, getting better each time because I figured out how to make things work ie sanding the roughness out of primers, wet sanding, etc. I’m pretty sure you just saved my bank account from buying more crap I may only use once (spray guns and correlating parts). It definitely makes me want to keep trying this method. The stuff I’m painting doesn’t need to see a professional (91 z28, 89 Chevy stepside). So thank you from a country boy in Missouri.

I have to agree that this is the best teacher I have found for diy. I've paid a cheap paint shop to paint bumper covers in the past because i lacked confidence. But now i think it is possible to paint fenders and bumper cover myself save money and do a betterjob. Thanks.

I cant wait to give these techniques a try. I've been really afraid of trying to diy some projects Ive had in mind, but this video gives me a lot of confidence. Thanks!

I start my refinishing class next week ! i’m excited for it been waiting for a while now ! been learning alot before taking the class ! Really appreciate you brother ! thank the Lord for you 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Thanks brian, I had great success Using this method on my bumper, Another thing that helped me was I had my 2K clear in warm water container for a few minutes and it sprayed smoother and less peel

That came out great, always enjoy seeing diy jobs for so many of us to help out!

I have fixed so many headlights with your restoration video using the Eastwood Clearcoat. Thank you!

This is incredibly helpful! Thank you! I've never spray painting anything, and this step by step process will be really helpful when I do paint my replacement rear bumper cover.

This video is why I follow you. This is exactly what I am doing this spring with my new fenders and front bumper cover Frankenstein project. I would be interested in seeing what you would have done to get rid of the orange peel....you mentioned either sanding with the 600 and respraying a final clear coat, or cut & buffing it.

Such a wonderful tutorial for those that cannot afford a body shop, or just have a small project. This type of technique just might work for my motorcycle ! Thanks for all your knowledge and time :)

I am in the process of rattle canning my entire 93 Honda. It’s just a project car that isn’t worth much. But man, I have learned so much from this channel. I’m doing a few panels at a time and it’s been coming out way better than had I just winged it. And other channels aren’t near as detailed in explaining, nor are they as knowledgeable. Thanks for the quality content!

I did this to the hood on my black 350z and it came out beautiful just like body shop quality the Eastwood 2K is a game changer I only spent $46 and a body shop was charging me $350 to do the hood after 1 week of letting it dry I put Meguiars Gold Class carnauba plus wax and it looks even better 🙌

I refurbish golf carts. Perfect system. Be sure to use adhesion promoter, as bodies are plastic. Very professional results and a pro finish makes a lot of difference when selling your refurbished carts. I love these videos!

I have spray painted a lower part of the rear hatch and a rim bases on your suggestions, with spray can and 2k clear. The result was almost perfect. Many, many thanks for your tips and videos about this.

2 more important tips: Don't tilt your spraycan. Try to avoid cross winds. Both will disturb your spray parttern

Hey Brian, thank you sooo much for this and your other videos. In 1968 I painted a car using my mom's vacuum cleaner with a spray gun attachment fed from the exhaust outlet!!! For the time, it tuned out ok - different paints in those days. How technology has changed. I'm now 70 and my youngest daughter's car needed her front fender repainted due to peeling clear coat and failing base - but the car is old and not worth a shop doing it. So I followed your lead with all the new paints and processes and did an ok job - obviously not a shop finish but it looks good on her car now. No internet to learn from in 1968, so these lessons you provide are a fantastic community contribution. I feel happy now I can not only maintain the car mechanically for her, but I can address any paint issues to let her have a reasonably good looking car. Well done man!!!

Your advice is invaluable! Thank you so much for your time and effort.

Thanks, Brian, for a very detailed yet easy to follow tutorial. I’m actually using these products to breath some life back into a beat-up acoustic guitar. This approach is highly unusual, and it took numerous attempts with different combinations of primers, fillers, paints, and clear coats to finally get the results I wanted. This video provided a great foundation for using automotive finishing products that can be applied to other types of projects.

I messed up a couple panels and then out of nowhere they stayed coming out like this. the key is in the prep and having a nice even smooth spray overlap. you're the man. always learning from your videos. thank you. yep. it is just paint. .. can always sand and redo it

Just a recommendation here if you do multiple spray jobs. Buy a canopy from lowes that is a 10x10 (or 10x20 to put your entire car in) then grab 3 tarps that are 12x16 (for the 10x10)This allows you to build a little setup and just grab a cheap box fan that blows outwards. Easy to setup and will keep a lot of the dirt and what not out and protects against rain. Alaska is expensive so everything total for me was 230 dollars. Im still learning to paint but I’ve mastered building a half garage in 1 hour lol.

Good episode. People who don't have a garage will benefit from this episode.

I am soon 60 years old and cars are my hobby but I have never seen anything like this. Simply amaziing.

You're always my guide to an adequate paint lesson.

Great video, I was going to get my bumpers repainted professionally but this has given me the confidence to have a go myself, worse thing that can happen is I'll have to end up taking them to the paint shop, but here's hoping not after this excellent tuitional video, thanks so much in advance 🤞🏻

Thanks so much for this informative video and great narration. I'm 80 and still learning. I am half way through my project and ran into some problems....and I think you covered all my questions and concerns. My main problem was coverage and striping(modeling after application of the base coat. I now see, I was putting the paint down way to dry(spraying too far away from the panel). It came out very rough, even though I used 2 cans of the 'Perfect Match'. I wasn't happy, so I have ordered another can of the color coat(Ford-True Blue(L3)., 2004 Ford F-150 Heritage. I does look better since I have sanded it but still a little stripey. When I get it, I will prep good and apply a good wet coat with your quadrant method. You also answered my question about the Duplicolor Clear Coat.....unfortunately, I have already bought two cans I can't return. I think I'll restore my old rusty wheel borrow and I'll use it on that project. Ordering the Eastwood 2000 instead. FYI - Your link for the Eastwood ClearCoat is wrong...It is for Black Caliper paint.

Can't wait till the weekend to do my project. Very helpful video. Thank you

Always good to see projects being done at home. Especially us DIY who work from our garage also when will the clip be on for dust extraction one that will do the DIY cheers.

Another prime example of why you have so many who love your work as I do. When doing the clear, you spoke of not stopping in the panel but you do in the clear stage. Is it possible to have runs doing this? I guess if so the answer would be not to slow down too much. Is that right? Once again thanks for sharing what you love to do. Trucker Ray ✝️ PS, I agree about the back yard looked beautiful...

I never like anything, I smashed that button for the first time in months. Amazing dude. You’re a teacher and a gentleman.

Came out INCREDIBLE!

I've done lots of smaller jobs like this, eventually progressed to painting in the garage with a compressor and half decent paint gun. When learning I found just investing in a cheap compressor and gun to get started. Rattle cans are very limiting and there's only so much you can do with them. I once painted an entire car with a 25L compressor, god knows how!

Great instructional video for a spray can paint job, I would love to see similar reagrding partial reapir like blending new paint with existing

wow....... i learned more on this video than hours on RU-vid. thanks for your professional advice.

I appreciate the extra details on base coat techniques. I did one of the roof panels on my Suzuki Cappuccino and it didn’t really turn out how I liked. Gonna try again on a different panel and see if I can do better.

Awesome video Brian you hit the nail on the head with this one the finish look like a ws400 lol 😂 and thanks for the tip how you do the panel in pieces spot on Brian I really enjoyed that video much love ❤️ keep it up 🙏👌👍✊👊💯💯

can’t wait to try this on my rsx’s mugen kit!

Beautiful sharing~~ Wow Wow Wow! 👍👍 👍👍 👍👍 Sorry for the late visit. Thank you for the support.

I noticed that you have a condenser for your central air. My suggestion is to cover it when you are spraying or spray things in a different location. Otherwise, the over spray could get into the fins and eventually it will plug up the coils and over heat the compressor. I hope this helps

Awesome video! I've done a whole car before and was difficult. Definitely could have gotten a better result focusing on 1 panel at a time instead of the whole car all at once

Thank you for giving me the courage and knowledge to paint my own fender. I did it using this video as direction and I got to say, it turned out pretty good.

Just a really great video for DIY’ers!! So much great info. Thank you 👍🏻👍🏻

I'd like to see a backyard rattle can spot repair. Do spray cans do well with paint matching on a spot repair?

Well done, fantastic subject matter and top notch result as always

Just what I was looking for when redoing some mildly faded panels. Great lesson and tips.

Thank you for taking the time to do this video!

How long did you wait for the primer to dry?

great video! one question, how do you keep the spray tips clean/clot free in-between coats??

Awesomeness

This video is my go to reference now before I tackle some outdoor spraying.

Appreciate the content brother. I don’t have all the flashy gear like a shop but watching your videos gives me some confidence that I can achieve a reasonable job with the backyard gear that I have available to me. Your a legend bro,

I like your videos and I'm convinced you could use about any thing available to come out with a great end result. A true refinisher

What a beautiful place to paint.

Your RU-vid videos are mind blown. Watching them helps builds my confidence! 👍

Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much for taking the time out to explain the process in detail I am planning to do the same thing with my 2012 Camry metallic black so far your video makes it seem doable.

man this is best video to date that I have seen on how to do a DIY paint job. thanks for the video and all the links!

The best paint tutorial i've ever seen, thank you and congratulations for th job!

Brian great job really enjoyed your professional video for a do it yourselfer. Thanks again and thumbs up.

Great job especially for people with older vehicles on a budget

Thank you so much. You are a legend. I really appreciate you show.

A professional paint job is really expensive where i live and learning to do this is my own yard is a life saver, thank you for your vids and i hope I'll do a ok job on my car

Excellent instructional video made even better by a perfect, beautiful setting. Makes me want to go paint something!!!

Very cool! This is fantastic for a spray can. Years ago i painted a motorcycle tank with cans, i painted it silver and it looked perfect. Probably better than my first few real spray gun jobs. 😄

Just tried this on some roof rack feet, turned out perfect thanks!

Bout to paint my motorcycle, in the backyard. But gonna do a small wood and plastic booth with a fan to keep the bugs and contamination down. Thanks for the techniques you teach. You def give everyday people confidence in trying it themselves.

Painting my trucks grille this weekend. This video is exactly what I needed🤙🏽

Thank bro, your video really helped me, I had to buy new mirror and wasnt keen to pay 300 for paint, so bought couple of cans for 70 bucks. It looks way better than the old mirror thanks to these videos. Now I am looking to paint the bumper

Thanks my friend

Thanks Brian I need to paint front and rear bumper's this will help a ton!

I have so many diy paint projects I want to do at home & this is a great video to lead me in that direction getting started

Thank u, i will try this when spring arrive have a nice one Brian👍

I just finished painting my hood using this method and turned out awesome. Thanks for the guidance

I would love to see a video from a full bare metal spray and trying to get a factory like paint job iv been watching your videos for a couple of months now I feel so confident doing a paint job with a spray gun I brought a inflatable paint booth ages ago cause I was going to do my car but never did I have since then brought another car that has no clear coat and that paint is just dull and thin when I find a video of from you from start to finish I’m definitely going to be following your steps I have brought 3 paint guns two gravity fed and a siphon gun love the advice you give and the videos are very detailed and not overly complicated to understand

This is fantastic! You really broke it down with the info. Love your channel!

Impressive results

I’m really digging this color

Thanks for the content! Currently researching what I'm going to be doing on my 1963 J300. Once I get to it, I'll try to remember to give you credit for your inspiration on my video! Thanks again. Have a great day! 😊

A big thank you from France 🇫🇷 👍👏

I just love you for these videos! Honestly!

inspiring thank you

Great work, Brian. Very helpful! I plan on touching up some sections of my rv in the backyard.

Very helpful 👌 I was one of the guys asking for this video so thank you!

This guy gets right to the point 👍🏽

that tutorial is a gamechanger, gonna try soon🙏🙏

That looks good

😮wow ❤

thanks for the simple instructions, this is the only DIY paint video I've seen that actually thought to mention the little things like a lint free rag. going to try this next weekend, if I ruin my bumper its all your fault lol!

Superb video. I’ve made a real mess of my Audi car door but I’ll be back to it after watching your video. Thanks for all the tips George UK

Thank you 🎉

Good info, used some tips on a door. However I did get a pack of those large fan adjustable spray can nozzles. They really helped to avoid tiger stripes with out making a boat load of narrow passes.