Using airbrush to touch up paint

[Bozu]

Has anyone touched up their Tundra with an airbrush?

[TampaTundra]

Ha that would be a bad idea. Even with a white truck you would be able to tell. Color matching is really tricky and also you would have to sand it down a little on that area and the end result will be crap. If you have little scratches look into toyotas touch up paint stuff or dupli-colors paint touch up. Dupli does have all manufactureers and there respective models with all the factory paint matching. And dupli will prob be cheaper.

[Anchorsaweigh]

Actually, it's quite common for body shops and others to use air brushes for touch-up. It takes skill to do, but I've had it done with terrific results.

Any professional will tell you that brush-on will always be lumpy and aerosol can sprays are the absolute thinnest pants there are and will never look right or last.

As far as "Dupli-Color" goes, it works ok, matches pretty good, but you'll never achieve a finish even close to the original. A pro will color-match, not simply use paint off-the-shelf.

Cheers,

Bob

[NoX101]

I just bought some dupli from wal mart..was like 5.00..its the toyota super red is what i bought and anyone knows that red is the hardest color to match...im quite pleased with it...matches perfectly!