vinyl vs. paint and q's

[festivakid88]

so I want to do a few mods to my car, good old simple lightning/flames... and I want to keep it cheap. I figure I could work it with 4 cans of spray paint and a can of clear coat (plus tape/etc, and a lot of time over spring break)...
But I know a lot of people use vinyl. What are the pros-cons? How much would it cost to get two multi-color 40" x 16" (aprox) vinyl’s? More than paint?

Where and how do you go about getting custom vinyl? Even for other projects.

Depending on which way you guys think is best, I’ll start talking techniques... I think I know how I’d hafta do the paint so far as prep and all but I’ll run it by later

Thanx!!

[SimonTuffGuy]

Paint will give you the best look overall, because you can layer it, shade it better, etc... A show car (or even a real modified car) will not use vinyl where paint can be used.

If you want something simple, easy to put on and fairly cheap, go with a vinyl cut out...

Simon

[glacius182]

Like Simon said paint is better. No bubbles, no tears, no problems!

[festivakid88]

ok, thanx to you two...
if no1 else has any input it looks like i'll be going with paint 8) Still not sure which would be cheaper.

I was really hopeing to do this over spring break, but thats in two weeks (well, OK, a week and a half) and its not looking like the best paint weather :evil:

I'm not really sure about painting, i've never done it before... so i'm trying to keep it 'simple'... closer to when i'm going to do it i'll post what i plan on doing exactly and see what you guys think

[darkdan]

Trying to do multicolored flames with vinyl by yourself isn't easy.

I'd go with paint personally.