What are good detail/striping paint brands to paint lugs? I really don't need a lot obviously for the lugs, so maybe I can find a certain type at an art store? Also, being this is going to be a rattle can job, what are the better rattle can paint brands?

Any other pointers like certain striping brushes or masking methods would be greatly appreciated too. In fact, rattle can methods would be helpful as well being I haven't painted anything by can in 25 years. I'm thinking about hanging it from a pulley wheel and starting from the head tube.

As far as environment, I'm sadly stuck with an indoor storage unit that does not have ventilation, so I won't have access to a paint room, sprayer, or anything else you'd want painting/finishing. For lighting, I'll probably be using LED around 5000k or maybe a straight 5000k bulb (being I'll have to tap into the 110 light socket). Any ventilation tips? I'm thinking to use a small fan running off my car (AC->DC), however, where the over spray blows is a problem. I'm thinking about fanning it straight into a cotton sheet...maybe?

P.S. I do know the basics of to strip the paint, sand with steel wool, prime, sand, prime, paint, paint, clear...I used to finish wood so those parts are almost identical :-) (except with stain/lacquer/poly/etc.)

One Shot for details and striping. One Shot Enamels

I get all of my painting supplies from tcpglobal.com.

I agree. Good stuff. But, a while back, when contemplating re-painting a frame…still haven't done it… I wrote to that "expert" answer guy on the One Shot web site and told him what I was thinking of doing, head tube and two seat tube bands only, and that I was not wanting to buy a full quart of paint for that small spray job, etc. He wrote back to say he didn't recommend their sign paint for this application. But didn't say why.
I still think I'd do it, as there enamel is good quality, comes in small cans, and they have the right color I'm looking for.

For striping and lug lining, I don't think you'll find a better paint. Comes in loads of colors too.

It's pricey, but you can buy a 1/4 pint.

You have to allow for mistakes and do-overs when painting an entire frame. I couldn't buy less than a quart of urethane when I painted my Carlton, but I ended up needing all of it.

You can also get a Preval sprayer for not much money. Now you can get any paint you want. House of Kolor has some pretty nice paint

O.K., so I'm thinking of using that Preval sprayer with a candy blue. However being I don't know much about painting, how would I get a metallic look with it? I've seen metallic candy paint, but not sure how that's done (I like the look of the depth). I'm imagining a metallic base coat, but not sure on that process.

Thanks for the help. I'm currently bouncing between swatches on 1-Shot and House of Kolor.

What you're basically doing with candy colors is shooting a metallic base coat, and then shooting tinted transparent coats over the base. I shot a few cars in my day, but never a candy paint job.

The body shop guys I knew said they were very hard to get right. And that was with top notch spray gear. With a Preval sprayer you will probably find this hard to do. But the only way to learn is to try it, right?

I was able to find small volumes of HOK paints available thru Amazon. You could order a small quantity and get some practice on some cheap hardware store pipe before attempting to do a frame.

There are all kinds of resources online to research applications of candy paint. Here's one I found:

Candy Apple Red

Good luck!

Kurt

Right, I was just watching videos on the application. Uhhh, I'm going to do a $40 dollar job first :-). I seriously haven't touched spray paint since 1990, so I need to dust off a bit. Well, I have sprayed white 100x10 yards out of 5 gallons, but that isn't exactly painting as much as waiting to be replaced by a robot.

I have 3 sprayers and ironically the Harbor Freight sprayers are better than my Iwata and Rittenhouse, however I use those with polyurethane for finishing wood, but when the time comes I'm good on the equipment (the environment not so much). So I'm now lookimg for "top of the line" off the shelf quarts. These (inter)national department stores do have Rust-O-Leum Enamel Royal blue which I can tent/lighten, but I'm not sure on what to use to add the metallic in. Couldn't I still add in some metallic to the blue? I'm fearing if I add in straight silver metallic, the blue color will be completely off the target pallet (blue+silver=....anodized blue?). I imagine I need some diluted clear silver metallic base coat, but finding that on search engine is not easy, I only find it in finger nail polish.