Finishing/Painting Diffusion Panels

[Mister Pig]

I ordered a set of diffusion panels from Temu this last week and i am looking at options to finish them. They are not a bad deal if you can wait a bit for shipping, mine took 10 days to get here.

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Really cannot complain about the price, it was $42 for them total.




This is ABS plastic. So I suspect a primer first, and then I wondered about the top coat. I want to match the color on my walls, so I was going to do a latex, I have some touch up paint and I would get a quart mixed up to match it.

I am thinking of buying a modest electric sprayer. Has anyone ever sprayed with these? It looks like you need to cut the latex a bit with water.

Alternatively if you have any suggestions on finishing these panels I am all ears!

 

[djwhy60]

There is a plastics specific "rattle can" paint....I understand it works great. The best is the Krylon....Also you do not need to prime if you are using the plastic specific. Not to sure you could match your wall colors...

 

[Artie]

Be honest . . . you stole that panel off the side of a Klingon Bird of Prey.

 

[tomlinmgt]

I used one of the Wagner electric/airless sprayers many years ago spraying latex that had been diluted and it did a perfectly adequate job. Latex paint over plastic with no primer will adhere, just not as tenaciously as it would over a primed or porous substrate...so the only consequence is it may scratch more easily. That may or may not be of concern considering the end use for whatever is being painted...and in your case I doubt the plastic 3d art panels (they're not deep enough to offer any meaningful diffusion, although they could scatter some high frequency energy) will be in a potentially abusive environment so achieving optimum scratch/damage resistance wouldn't have to be high priority. Most of the popular brands of latex paint offer paint & primer in one...so I'd be inclined to use one of those products if I wanted a product that would match an existing wall color.