EBSP30700 Clear Coat Matte Paint Shop Finish System

Great product to finish my build. Great quality and value. Nice color

The product was good well packaged

durable and easy to aply and looks awesome

Guys, I've been looking forward to reviewing this. Let me start by saying I'm a complete amateur. Never painted before. First, I used around 6 quarts to paint a fourth gen Nova. I used this much because I had to do a complete color change, door jams, under hood, trunk, etc. There is a lot more to paint that way. I practiced on the under side of the hood and trunk. Basically, it took me about 8 weeks of weekends and one or two nights during the weeks to finish my project. I had a lot of body work to do, so the time it took me was pretty long because of the body work, my day job, and the fact that it was my first time painting. The second time will be easier, but make sure you block out a LOT of time and like they say, TAKE YOUR TIME. As far as the paint goes, I knew from the reviews that lacquer isn't the best option for durability. For me, the car will be in a garage, so it's less of a concern. The paint was fine, it looks GREAT, and it was easy to work with. It was almost impossible as an amateur to get the technique right... so for me, it was important to have an easy to use paint for my first time. If I had tried to use a premium urethane, I think it would look horrible, and I would have wasted a lot of money. All in, I think it cost around $400 by the time I factor in primer, paper, masks, tapes, plastic (hanging up in the garage, and for the car itself), propane to keep the garage warm, fans... basically everything I spent to make it work. The last subject will be the paint fumes. It was a challenge to deal with the vapor as my garage is attached to my house. If your lady is queasy about smelling paint, or if you have kids... you may want to make sure you can do the spraying times when they won't be around for the day. Lastly, I had some inevitable problems with the gun getting clogged and shooting drops onto the paint job. This just seemed to happen at random times no matter how careful I was. I'd disassemble and clean the gun, and it would shoot drops onto the paint randomly. I think that part of learning is being ready to see or hear when the gun is starting to clog and stopping before you shoot drops onto your paint job. All together, I really like the results, but there were predictable challenges and mistakes. Even though the paint job isn't perfect, I did it myself, and the mistakes are mine. It was an awesome learning process that makes me respect professional painters even more. I think this is a great product for your first paint job. Good luck guys!

Perfect color match price a little up there though

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.

Caveat: I painted a classic Corvette and this was part of the "candy" system. Okay, the missing link is that this covers about nothing when you're using it. You really need to buy about 10 to even 20 times what they recommend for coverage. I went through a personal trial by fire with this product. I wanted a really great paint job for a classic Corvette. This was a totally down to bare earth, frame-off, resto-mod where the paint job had to be borderline perfect. I wanted something that would really demonstrate the classy lines of the Stingray body style and look smokin' hot whether at a distance or millimeters away. This really is a good product. Unfortunately, I can't honestly recommend it for anybody but the most astute paint "guy" (I know there are some gals out there you can whip any guy in paint). First, by the time you add up all of the individual quarts of primer, base, color and clear, you could easily buy gallons from a paint store. And, it takes a LOT. I don't mean a LOT..lot. A really lot lot lot. I must have bought every single quart in the south to try to get the job done. Let me tell you that the folks at Amazon are just fantastic. I had an abbreviated "personal hell" when it came to ordering and actually receiving the paint. Since I was buying it like I had nothing better to do, I was ordering it from several different vendors, Amazon being just one of many. I literally bought at least 30 cans (not all the base, doh!) from the local Advance Auto. I ordered several quarts from Summit and probably a dozen or more from Jegs. It got to the point where I was ordering it from anybody who could get it to me. At least 5 shipments (through UPS) were indicated as "destroyed in transit" or some such thing. The Amazon team were absolutely fantastic in rectifying it to the best of their abilities, but when you're painting a car, you need the paint NOW. And when you're shooting lacquer, you really need it well before you actually need it...if that makes sense at all! So, I'd never go down this path again. Roughly 9 million quarts later, I ended up with a Corvette that looks a cherry Popsicle and is at least a mile and a half deep. My budget wasn't even approximately what I'd planned for it. I don't even remember the last time that $200 or $300 was a consideration for what "more" I had to spend to get just that much closer to the finish line. Seriously, I would *never* go down this road again. If you're dying for pain and excruciating torture, hey, we've got a product just for you! Don't get me wrong. It looks absolutely fantastic. You really just have to buy and buy and buy and buy and did I say buy? Please. Go to the paint store. Buy gallons. If you're doing lacquer you already know that you're in for some work. As a note, I sent a few emails to the Duplicolor folks. And, they responded. One message told me to get like 5 quarts for the base and another 2 or 3 for the color...as if I'd be done in under 10,000 quarts or so...yeah. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Not counting screw-ups and waste and miscellaneous wannabe attempts at "seeing how it will look," I probably (I don't really want to know) bought at least 20 quarts of each part a minimum of twice and likely three times. Am I happy with the result? It came out smokin' hot. The 'vette looks like it should be eaten. Plastic fruit doesn't look this good. Would I rather spend about a bazillion fewer dollars with a urethane-based product? Uh...yeah...'specially if I don't have to do another damn thing to it. Short answer: The paint is great. Strain it. Shoot it. Keep shooting it. The fiberglass Corvette drank it like cheap wine on a really hot date. Would a metal car mean less paint? I can't say. All I know is that if there was a local store within about 50 miles, I was up in their stuff getting yet another quart of the stuff like a crack ho...between orders from everyone who sold it online for "serious volume." Seriously guys (and paint gals), buy from a real paint store whatever you need and get the DuPont so that you're actually spending time painting and not chasing. If you *really* want to do this, imagine whatever money you have in your pocket leaving immediately. It does come out frickin' great, but you will pay the piper and guess what, he's charging quadruple this week... The Amazon team are absolutely fantastic and helped me get more quarts to finish the job. They worked closely with me when the shipments were "destroyed" in-transit, which only happened like 5 times with several vendors...maybe the "UPS guy" is painting his car and figured out how many quarts it really takes? Last word? Don't even consider this if you're on any kind of budget where the final dollar amount has any sort of meaning whatsoever...particularly if you were led to believe that you can do your car with something like 20 (or fewer) quarts of the total set of products. If you happen to get through it with fewer than 20 quarts of each product, consider yourself lucky. I probably shot 40 coats of the Candy Apple Red before it was "right." Just to let you know, after 12 coats of the base, this stuff looked really good and you could almost see yourself driving around in a really slick, silver 'vette if only you put a clear coat on this stuff! Seriously, if you want a killer silver, this is it. Everybody I talked to thought that the 'vette looked fantastic in the base coat.

Very good thing