Paint for billboard vinyl?

Myliatronic · Post by **Myliatronic** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:24 am

Hi there :)

I am hoping to make my plain white vinyl dome cover a little more aesthetically pleasing for this year. I would love to paint it, but i dont want anything that is going to crack and shed under the hot sun. Does anyone have experience painting this type of material? What works best? Latex? Acrylic? Spray paint?

Dustdevil · Post by **Dustdevil** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:36 am

Go to BM Theme Camp Tribe and contact Scooter. He is the expert on this.

http://themecamps.tribe.net/

Teo del Fuego · Post by **Teo del Fuego** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:41 pm

personal experience: your regular acrylic from a tube flakes off and makes a MOOP nightmare when applied to billboard vinyl.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:20 pm

They make special stuff for this.
Ask a billboard company what they use or call tubelite.
The auto vinyl paint may work too.

hunter S · Post by **hunter S** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:38 pm

God! I feel like a add man for "One Shot paint!"(brand name) but it is the stuff they use!
It's a great oil baised, heavy pigment (probably full of lead & unhealthy shit) paint. It has a great liqued, high gloss texture. If I didn't think it might kill you, it would make the most incredible body paint ever!

Rocket75377 · Post by **Rocket75377** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:44 pm

I painted on billboard vinyl once with high-temperature grill/stove spraypaint. It was black paint on a white background, so it suited my needs just fine. I never had a problem with it, and honestly, never thought twice about it. Paint is paint, or so I thought. I'm not sure about other kinds of paint, but at least that one worked for me.