I've never had to thin paint as much as I had to with this batch. Until I got up to 1.5 to 1, it was spitting out of the gun like you said. Maybe I got ahold of some old paint or something. The last car was shot with rustoleum too, and it looked as good as yours does, idk.

hey slidinbmw, the hood looks great.   I paint cars at a body shop in riverside,ca as my day job.  My advice to those who want to make the paint more durable is  1) to put extra coats of paint, but allow a few minutes between each coat so you dont run it. 2) If you wanna spend a little more,  about $50 for a sprayable gallon you can get some single stage paint, that stuff is pretty thick when it lays out. Also the fluid tip on the spray gun makes a difference on how much material comes out,  i think the HF purple gun is a 1.5mm tip

another thing, is any kind of colors that have metallic in it, you need to spray a clear coat over it to bring the metallic out and not have it look dull..

i know we race dirt cars so we dont wanna spend alot of money for paint jobs, but i thought i would throw my 2 cents in on it,

This was done using rustoleom paint and a gravity feed Koblt spray gun from Lowe's

It's just .7 mill 9x12 plastic from lowe's, I think it was like $2.95 a piece. Then I just stapled it up

I know it's September but we are just about to start a new season here in Yuma Az. Heres some pics of the car as im in the process of painting.

I switched to House Of Kolor paint, so all of the Rustoleum had to be stripped off

next is primer

This is a base white, tonight Im going to try and spray the top coat paint if the weather holds out, and I'll pics to come