Weight savings between enamel and lacquer paint?

[Dion Hildebrandt]

Aircraft painting is a good measure, on a DC-7 painting from the windows down including the lower belly, a 2 coat coverage would be about 600 pounds of weight. One reason you usually saw them painted only half of the plane. That being said a standard refinish of a midsize muscle car of say a normal silver color would be about 6-800 grams of base coat ready to spray and around the same amount for the clear coat, I know you are asking about enamel and lacquer, I bring up these amounts of Base/Clear only as a reference number for comparision and that is what we spray on a daily basis. All of our mixing is done on a scale for accuracy in color match