Price: $34.99
Dupli-Color Paint Shop Finish System is a complete automotive finish, straight from the can. A first of its kind, this lacquer-based pre-reduced paint system allows you to take all the guesswork out of painting your vehicle or whatever paint project you might have. Being a pre-reduced system, no thinner or hardener is needed. Paint Shop is easy to apply, dries quickly, and can be buffed to a brilliant smooth finish. Mix up the paint can and pour straight into the spray paint gun and you are ready to spray. This system offers a step-by-step solution to restore, restyle, or customize your SUV, truck, car, or motorcycle with its fast drying, hard, durable finish. To mix paint contents, thoroughly shake the can before applying and strain before pouring it into a spray cup. Recommended to use with a Dupli-Color Strainer Kit. Always apply paint in a well-ventilated area. Since 1938, Dupli-Color has been the trusted brand leader in providing easy-to-use, innovative, and exact color matched products to restore, restyle and protect their vehicle appearance.
BASE COAT AUTOMOTIVE PAINT – Dupli-Color Paint Shop Finish System Base Coat is a complete, high-quality lacquer-based paint system designed for vehicle refinish applications.
DIY FRIENDLY – This ready-to-spray car paint repair system does not require a hardener or reducer and creates a fast drying, durable finish. With no re-coat window, additional coats can be applied at any time.
EASY TO APPLY – Dupli-Color Paint Shop vehicle paint is easy to apply, dries quickly, and can be buffed to a brilliant smooth finish. It’s dry to the touch in 1 hour and can be handled in 3 hours.
IDEAL USES – Designed for automotive and motorcycle applications, Dupli-Color Paint Shop Finish System features an array of sheens from high gloss to matte or metallic finishes ideal for almost any restoration or custom paint job.
DUPLI-COLOR PAINT – Since 1938, Dupli-Color has been the trusted brand leader in providing easy-to-use, innovative, products to restore, restyle and protect vehicle appearance.
Customer Reviews
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great product
Review: Iâm not a painter but I just sprayed 4 or 5 coats on a guitar body, the product is very thin and user friendly, and it buffed out beautifully
Reviewer: Richard Cagle
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good product
Review: Went on smooth and dried fast
Reviewer: Jay Gerstel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Easy to use.
Review: This product is easy to use. I would however not recommend for entire vehicle use. The clear dries extremely fast lending it to create a great deal of overspray.
Reviewer: BigDaddy
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Watch out for cloudy/foggy Gloss Clear
Review: I’m by no means an expert and learned how to spray these over the last week so keep that in mind.The Bad:I sprayed the two quarts of Championship White, ½ quart of Performance Red along with 2 quarts of gloss clear right from the can to the gun without any product issues. Anything that went wrong was due to me and not the product. I was hoping to wrap up this project and opened the 3rd quart of Gloss Clear and noticed it was cloudy/foggy. Hoping it wasnât going to cause any issue I tested it on a small area and sure enough I noticed the Performance Red turning what looked to be more pinkish. Iâm guessing whatever was wrong with this quart reacted with Performance Red and it discolored it and/or made it cloudy. I waited for it to dry and re-shot that area with another coat of Performance Red and then got my refund on Amazon for the quart. Iâll use that money to go to my local AutoZone to pick one up today so I can finish this project rather than wait and see if I receive another defective fogged quart from Amazon. I couldnât find a vendor to contact to let them know that their warehouse stock may be defective.My comparison to Rust Oleum rattle cansI have been using rattle cans for years with pretty good results (I wouldnât paint a car with them but my smaller household items look very nice) but wanted to give this type of paint (Entry level pre-thinned âAutomotiveâ) a try and wanted to see if there was a significant difference between it and rattle cans.Short story – I’m going back to rattle cans.It’s an okay finish but following three coats of Gloss Clear (I did not sand/buff and polish) itâs not better than what I can do with the Rust Oleum products and I don’t usually top coat them with their gloss clear nor do I sand/buff/polish them. I have used gloss clear and then they look even better. Maybe with more practice I could improve the output for the lacquer but what really bugs me is that ton of clean-up is needed to clean the gun, it’s messy pouring from a quart can and then the dirty lacquer thinner that you use to clean up needs to be disposed of properly. With a rattle can you just throw it away. Obviously, there are shortcomings with a rattle can but the convenience and clean-up is why I’m going back to them, as well as cost. I wish Rust Oleum had the same color choices in a lacquer paint as they do for enamel (Which takes soooo much longer to dry than lacquer – definitely a positive for lacquer paints but the lack of color choices is another negative). The other thing is the cost of the lacquer paint and other items needed (Lacquer thinner, paint strainers, lots of paper towels, etc). The project I did as a test I have done before using rattle cans. Two rattle cans of red and four cans of white for under $40. This Dupli-Color lacquer was over $100 more just in paint, not including the additional supplies! I really wanted to like this spray process over the rattle cans but Iâm heading back to Rust Oleum.
Reviewer: David Nichols
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great product for DIY
Review: Never painted anything automotive before. Never used a paint gun. Ended up spraying with LVLP. Highly recommend LVLP if your compressor doesnât have enough CFMâs to keep up with HVLP. Learned a lot, still a lot to learn. Do your research if you have never painted anything automotive before you start. Product was easy to use. Didnât have to worry about reducing anything or adding hardener since it was ready to spray right out of the can. Had to wet sand, cut, and buff to get final finish. Had good bit of orange peel when finished spraying. Donât believe it was product. Iâm sure it was me since Iâve never painted before. Will definitely use this product again. Really donât expect the end result to look as good as it does.
Reviewer: Marielis
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Candy is hardly translusant
Review: WARNING, This advertised Candy Apple Red paint is FALSE. The image on the can of paint shows a depth of red that someone would consider it to be a candy paint. The instructions on the can is self stats that there is no thinning required and you will get the desired look of this product. Candy paints are translucent paint meaning you can see through it to the base coat of silver metallic, which is also advertised on this product as a system.Start of use of this “system”Started with primer layer which laid down good, no issues.Started laying down 3 coats of silver metallic basecoat, layed down good, no tiger stripping, no issues.Started laying down there “Candy Apple Red”First thin layer completely covered the metallic base coat and no metallic could be seen through this paint.The paint as is, is about 5% transparent. This product is being falsely advertised as Candy Apple Red, even the image on that can shows a color which is not capable of producing which is also false advertising.Tho the price point is low, you will be completely disappointed with this product and you will have wasted time and money.I’m writing this long review because even tho somehow this product is got 4 stars and I don’t think its based on honest reviews and I dont want others to fall for this trap as I did.
Reviewer: Allieto
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Review with results picture
Review: I posted a picture so you can see that you can get good results with this product, if you properly prep, spray, and can final cut and buff.Few things I have learned: this will get destroyed, almost instantly by gas. Even with 5 coats of clear, and about 4 weeks of curing before we even installed, still damaged it beyond repair with just a few drops.Second, buy Dupli-Color specialty reducer, and mix with all of the paint shop colors at 8:1 (paint:reducer), it sprays, and lays down just perfect.Third, because this isn’t an ‘activated’ paint, you can save what you don’t use, either using interchangeable cups systems, or pour into a sealable container (NOT back into the can if it still has something in it.Fourth, the Dupli-Color clear is adequate, however it does not flow and cover like newer products, nor is it going to be a great finish without some buffing. We used 1500, 2000 and 3000 grit sandpaper by hand, followed by 3M Rubbing Compound and 3M Ultrafine Machine Polish on Yellow and Grey foam pads respectively.Lastly, when you think you have enough coats, in particular with the clear coat when you’ll be cutting and buffing, do more. Like double. The thickness is not great, so it requires additional coats to prevent burn through when final finishing.This was painted without a paint booth, using only the Paint Shop system, the DeVillbiss Starting line guns, and exclusively 3M finishing products.
Reviewer: armando rizzo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Absolutely love the color went on nice and even , when i get my Detroit red wings decals ,cant wait to show it off at the trailers park. Thank you .Dont have a picture just yet.
Reviewer: James from Alberta
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: It is hard to find in my area this is a good product for me. Sprayed easy.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Not bad. when you first spray it on its almost matt ( spary about 4 coats). Dont freak out! You have to sand with 1500 grit wet sand then buff with buffing compound and it comes out realllly glossy. Just a lot of work to get that glossy finish!
Reviewer: Robert black
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The paint I used to paint my truck sprayed great threw the paint gun
Reviewer: Joe
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: As advertised Ready to spray,no mixing and drys quickly so no re-coating window.It is very easy to apply. Delivery was prompt.
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