Paint to paint a shipping container with

[wilbo666]

So I'm thinking about painting my shipping container...or at least the sections I am doing rust repairs in...

If I can find some affordable paint, I'll think about buying 10L and do the whole lot...

So I'm looking for something that ideally doesn't need priming on steel, has good weather resistant and corrosion resistant properties etc, can be applied with roller and brush and is affordable (~$150max for 10L say?, cheaper = better)...

POR15 is way to expensive for this application, thanks

$2 cans of paint are an option, but it would need a lot of them!...

Also it would be good if an ugly yellow color was available (current paint colour )

Suggestions?

Cheers
Wilbo

[oldcorollas]

white knight "roof guard" or "rust guard"

[PlacentaJuan]

pot belly black if its going to live in the sun

[crowncustom]

Solver industrial paint,comes in almost any colour you want comes in 10L tins durable as and fairly cheap.Can be got from any paint store.
Cheers Brett.

[131OWN]

Just use some good red oxide, It will last for years.

[vanman]

Advertise your 'blank canvas' anywhere local graffiti artists might hang out - although you won't have much of a choice on design, they'd probably welcome the chance to practise their skills on something they won't get in trouble for, and you might find some willing to provide their own paint as well, which will more than likely be something hard to clean off and therefore longlasting.

A scout hall near my mum's place did this and got the hall painted inside and out for very little apparently, based on an agreement that the artists had to paint the entire wall (not just tag it) and that it had to be inoffensive as well. This hall has been done this way several times, mainly as a community project sort of thing - keeps the hall well painted and give some kids a great outlet to do some pretty decent murals without trouble from the man. Local 'taggers' also tend to leave this hall alone out of respect for the artists too.

Might depend on how visible the container is for some of them to agree to it though...

Just an idea...

Cheers
Vanman

[wilbo666]

Would like to keep it yellow for the most part, that way when it gets scratched / dented you don't see a different colour (yellow!) singing through So that rules out 'pot belly black' and red oxide

crowncustom: Got a link to the industrial solver stuff? My quick searching said it needed primer if I recall!....

vanman: Mate that is actually a really good idea! The concept interests me, wonder how hard it would be to organise...

btw, Wattly Kill Rust do an ugly yellow color, and I happened to have 1L of it in the shed, so that has been put over the repairs to date... Wounder how much another 4/10L is...

Cheers
Wilbo

[thechuckster]

wilbo: solver paints have retail stores around the traps - clicky.

otherwise a water-based rust-proofing paint from Wattyl would be good and easy ... if slightly expensive. That stuff doesn't need primer.

[wilbo666]

wilbo: solver paints have retail stores around the traps - clicky.

A link to the stores dones't help me with finding the Solver ones that don't need primer Charles P

I haven't searched through every Solver industrial paint as yet, but all the ones I have looked at so far (Supergloss and Chem-Tuff) suggest priming is necessary...something I wish to avoid!

Solver list many types, so I was hoping crowncustom could be more specific

The Wattly RustKill stuff looks like a winner atm as it doesn't need priming

http://www.solverpaints.com.au/v2/html/industrial.htm

Cheers
Wilbo

[Johnzoku]

vanman: Mate that is actually a really good idea! The concept interests me, wonder how hard it would be to organise...

Not to hard at all

i know a bloke who knows a bloke

[Cuzzo]

How much do you want to spend?

The 10L will prob be about $200ish

[The Witzl]

vanman: Mate that is actually a really good idea! The concept interests me, wonder how hard it would be to organise...

Easy as!
My sister's boyfriend is a mad grafitti artist, and would welcome the chance to work on something like a container. He's in sydney though... so that probably doesnt help. However im sure he could point the path to finding a good artist in sunny brisbain.

The only problem with this idea is that it could attract "vandal" grafitti tags over the top of the proper artwork piece.... a common problem with graf-art.

[vanman]

That's why when the scout hall got done they tried to find local artists in the first instance... They would have been the most likely to tag it if they hadn't done the work themselves, also meant non-locals who tried to ruin the job with their own tags got sent packing quick smart! This hall got tagged maybe twice in the first month or so after it was first painted this way... then not again...

Back onto paint products though, possibly might be worth looking into marine paints that shipping containers would likely be painted in to prevent further rust while at sea... or even paint they would actually paint ships with... that sort of stuff would have to be pretty resistant to salt water...

Cheers
Vanman

[Stefan]

Why do you have a container?

[wilbo666]

Why do you have a container?

Everybody cool has one

I'm moving shortly, and my shipping container is helping with that

Cheers
Wilbo