Hi all --
I'm working on a 92" DIY screen to pair with my Mitsubishi HC3800 projector in my soon-to-be-up-and-running home theater, and thanks to some terrific help I've received here from mechman and harpmaker, I decided to paint the screen an off-the-shelf neutral gray.
I am painting the back side of a piece of "Thrifty White" (white melamine hard board) -- the non-melamine, brown side. I mounted the screen on the wall, and began painting it today using a Graco HV2900 sprayer. I first sprayed two coats of Kilz2 primer, and then this evening, when I opened the can of Sherwin-Williams ProClassic Acrylic Latex Enamel paint that was suggested to me here, tinted "Unique Gray" (SW 6260), I was surprised at how "white" this paint is -- I was expecting a much "grayer-looking" paint. In fact, it was white enough that, when spraying it onto the screen substrate (which already had the Kilz2 painted on it), the color of the paint and that of the background primer were similar enough that it was a bit hard to differentiate where I had sprayed the "Unique Gray", and where I hadn't. This is NOT an issue for me per se; the only reason I'm asking is to be sure that the guy at Sherwin-Williams didn't mis-tint my paint. For those of you familiar with it, is Unique Gray indeed a very, very light (almost whitish) gray? If so, then I'm good to go. The screen is looking good after the two primer coats and first coat of paint.
By the way, how many coats of Unique Gray should I use? I am spraying them fairly thin; not a "dusting" coat, but light enough so as to not get any runs. I'm planning on about three coats -- is this about right?
Thanks,
Steve
I'm working on a 92" DIY screen to pair with my Mitsubishi HC3800 projector in my soon-to-be-up-and-running home theater, and thanks to some terrific help I've received here from mechman and harpmaker, I decided to paint the screen an off-the-shelf neutral gray.
I am painting the back side of a piece of "Thrifty White" (white melamine hard board) -- the non-melamine, brown side. I mounted the screen on the wall, and began painting it today using a Graco HV2900 sprayer. I first sprayed two coats of Kilz2 primer, and then this evening, when I opened the can of Sherwin-Williams ProClassic Acrylic Latex Enamel paint that was suggested to me here, tinted "Unique Gray" (SW 6260), I was surprised at how "white" this paint is -- I was expecting a much "grayer-looking" paint. In fact, it was white enough that, when spraying it onto the screen substrate (which already had the Kilz2 painted on it), the color of the paint and that of the background primer were similar enough that it was a bit hard to differentiate where I had sprayed the "Unique Gray", and where I hadn't. This is NOT an issue for me per se; the only reason I'm asking is to be sure that the guy at Sherwin-Williams didn't mis-tint my paint. For those of you familiar with it, is Unique Gray indeed a very, very light (almost whitish) gray? If so, then I'm good to go. The screen is looking good after the two primer coats and first coat of paint.
By the way, how many coats of Unique Gray should I use? I am spraying them fairly thin; not a "dusting" coat, but light enough so as to not get any runs. I'm planning on about three coats -- is this about right?
Thanks,
Steve