enamels are not as used as much as they used to. Most of today's paints are a basecoat/clearcoat type urethane.
It sounds as though you want a single stage enamel.
I know of a couple different type enamels. One is a synthetic enamel. Which you can put a hardener in it with acrylic.
Then there is a acrylic enamel which already has it in it. All you need to do is add the hardener (and reducer).
Both will dry to a gloss finish. You do not have to add clear to either of the above.
If I remember right, the acrylic enamel seemed to be a tad bit more than a synthetic enamel. It will also hold up a little better.
To hold up even better than by itself, you could always clearcoat over it.
All enamels dry fairly slow. I'm sure you can add accelerator additive to speed it up.
Just be sure and use the correct reducer. This will help your tack time
There is also 'acrylic' lacquer which isn't used much at all.
I really didn't pay too much attention to what was in the paint, or if it was an acrylic or synthetic enamel back in my beginning days. I just mixed and sprayed what was giving to me. Between all the enamels I sprayed, they seemed to spray about the same.
I've sprayed
Limco,
BC (which I used to call "
Butchers Choice" :haha
, Western, Fuller O'Brien which was
Nason (sprayed a ton of this!), RM
Supermax (also sprayed alot of this),
Western,
Omni....
Pretty much all are used for production shops as these are cheap paints. Most can be bought for under $100 for a gallon...compared to a
1/2 pint of PPG Global yellow I just bought 2 days ago for $90 (my cost)
That's really all I can tell you...don't know if that helps any :freak:
Other members, feel free to add any more info... :ears:
