Bus Paint

[Midwilshire]

Painted our bus ourselves for $35 using Massy Ferguson grey tractor paint from one of those Fleet & Farm places.  Looks fantastic.  Got an aerosol can of same color for touchups.

The price quotes in the posts above are more than I paid for the bus. 

[sparkplug188]

How did you apply the paint? (automotive air sprayer, aerosol cans, roller?)  How glossy is it?

Edit: I found your paint post in the Bus Projects section: http://www.busconversions.com/bbs/index.php?topic=23466.msg271281#msg271281
Many of your progress videos in that thread are private, access denied.  
The the final result video looks a lot better than I expected. There are a few more pictures with better detail near the bottom of the thread.  The paint looks like it is low to semi-gloss.  I like how it hides little waves in the siding. I think it looks really good, even close up.  IMO extremely high gloss automotive paint doesn't look good unless the siding is perfectly flat. Distorted reflections just ruin the high gloss look for me.

[Midwilshire]

How did you apply the paint? (automotive air sprayer, aerosol cans, roller?)  How glossy is it?

Yep, sprayer and it turned out semi-gloss and quite nice.

Sorry about the "private" videos.  I'll have the tech genius (wife) remedy that shortly. 

We have a lot more videos to post as well.  The last post shows basically an empty shell, but now (at 2.5 years into the project) we're full-timing and within striking distance of uttering the word "done."  So, lots to update in the project thread in the days and weeks ahead. 

[Tom Y]

I painted mine myself with one step urethane, no clear coat. Not to bad if you stay 10-20 feet away. Biggest problem for me was seeing the paint to avoid runs or dry spots, and picking the color. Bought paint from an industrial paint mixer local and great to do business with. Would not do another in my garage. I had one side done and did not like the blue/ green color on the bottom so we re did it (wife and I)  Tom 

[Tom Y]

Here is what it looks like. I know some don't like the RV paint look but that's what we wanted. 

[Jim Eh.]

Nice job. Kudos. BTW, still looks like a bus.