Am currently building a car trailer, now its getting quiet alot of chopping and welding done so once finished will require painting,

I painted my little tip run trailer with hammerite after having it sand blasted and its quiet good but car trailers going to be quiet abit bigger and at 15 quid a tin its going to cost me a fortune especially painting it every year,

Just wondered if there was any alternatives out there that people have discovered

Have a look here: -

http://search.wickes.co.uk/search#ts=ajax&method=and&w=metal%20paint&isort=score

you get what you pay for..........

Well its primed with red oxide primer at moment till we finished welding rest of it as i think hammerite seems to stick better with some sort of undercoat on it first

Powder-coating?

powder coating is a good idea, but its expensive, some like por15 but i am not a fan, it is better than hammerite, QD paint is another alternative. For chassis prep stuff epoxy mastic is great, like this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180682217621

can get these type of results http://www.volkszone.com/VZi/showthread.php?t=601627&page=2

like your project, can you pm me a pic when done?

RS do a 5L tin of Hammerite for £65

Red Oxide, then black paint

RS do a 5L tin of Hammerite for £65

hammerite is cak tho, nowhere near as good as epoxy mastic stuff, or POR15 for that matter.Hammerite was much better a few years ago, they have changed the recipe to make it more enviro friendly

Only pointing out a cheap(ish) price, not making a comment on it's suitability nor quality.

no probs:> didn't mean to sound funny! just going on personal experience as have tried all of the products i mentioned, afterall last thing you wanna have to do is repaint the trailer every year due to cr*p paint!