Our tutorials and paint buying guides

How to paint a car?

Here is a list of tutorials, often very detailed, but useful! I invite you to take the time to read them. If you are a beginner in the field of painting, then I urge you not to skimp on these 10 minutes of reading.

Very often we are in a hurry to apply the ordered colors, without even taking the time to read the instructions completely.

As a painter, I have made mistakes, often out of haste, mainly in the preparation phases before painting. These mistakes have contributed to my experience, but they have cost me dearly in products and especially in working time!

▶ Motorcycle paints

▶ Bicycle paints

▶ Paints for other vehicles

Prepare, repair and varnish your support

Here is a list of tutorials that I hope you will find useful. They are complete summaries, concerning techniques that I am frequently asked about.

It therefore seemed necessary to me to recall some basic rules and also some valuable tips, which I have gathered for you, always going for the simplest and most concrete.

If there are any topics you would like me to cover, please let me know.

Repairing scratches on a bodywork

Prepare and paint the plastic

How to use a putty?

How to use and choose your primer?

Perform the flaming technique

Create a matte or satin bodywork

How to varnish your bodywork?

How to avoid orange peel and defects on bodywork varnish?

Special effects paints

This is our area of ​​expertise, because Stardust is primarily a special effects creator. If you want to achieve a magnificent special effects painting, spend some time reading these fact sheets, which contain a lot of very useful information.

Through technical support, I could advise you on different options, with classic and conventional versions, simple and effective, and I could also offer you color combinations, or personalized tips to obtain unusual shades.

Application tools

Here is a list of tutorials on the different spray tools that we use in car body painting and industrial painting. Basically, these are all the application methods with which the paint is sprayed through a nozzle and for which the tool never touches the support (unlike the brush or roller), with paint guns, airbrushes, aerosols.

Although theory can never replace practice, these tips and basic rules will be invaluable to you.

Chrome plating and chrome repair

The chrome paint section deals mainly with effects to imitate chrome, rather than real chrome obtained by galvanization. So no danger, and no toxic products!

In these very practical tutorials, I describe the best choices among the existing solutions, which number 3: mirror chrome paint, GoChrome floating paint, and finally silvering, which is a chemical spraying process.

Let yourself be guided!

Paints for decoration, hobbies and musical instruments

It is very common that prospective users contact me to ask if automotive paint can be applied to fishing lures or even a musical instrument.

My answer is invariably the same: any paint can be applied to any surface, as long as the surface has been properly prepared and/or primed.

The performances and visual effects that technical and modern paints allow are solutions to make any ordinary object extraordinary.

▶ Paints for modeling

▶ Paints for 3D printing

▶ Paints for musical instruments

▶ Epoxy resin

▶ Floor paints