from bare metal up "material cost"
About as cheap as you can get on bc/cc. Kirker 2k primer and base(which is supposedly what Summit and Eastwood are packaging), Nason clear. I did end up buying a second gallon of color after painting the cab because the color is very transparent and it really needed a 4th coat. I got what I payed for. Kirker base is not the most user friendly stuff. Ended up around the $450 mark. 3 years later, highly neglected, it still looks the same. Some guys would be very happy with this. All comes down to what you want and willing to spend.
You can get nice results with single stage but a single stage metallic is not going to have the depth a bc/cc job would have. Metallics I usually run bc/cc because with single stage metallics if for some reason you have to do a repair and blend then you end up with a couple panels with clear on them and you can definitely see that. A year later the chance of getting a quart mixed that's 100% dead nuts match to panel paint with is very slim. Color fades a bit or application differences that change the way a color/metallic lays etc.
About as cheap as you can get on bc/cc. Kirker 2k primer and base(which is supposedly what Summit and Eastwood are packaging), Nason clear. I did end up buying a second gallon of color after painting the cab because the color is very transparent and it really needed a 4th coat. I got what I payed for. Kirker base is not the most user friendly stuff. Ended up around the $450 mark. 3 years later, highly neglected, it still looks the same. Some guys would be very happy with this. All comes down to what you want and willing to spend.
