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One more thing...If you're using any brand of hardened acrylic enamel, you can mix 50/50 the same brand of hardened clear for your last coat. Just mix the clear and color together half and half and then add the proper amount of hardener and spray it. That will give you a bit more visual depth. The clear isn't normally as expensive, and the real benefit to doing this is you'll have more protection...meaning your paint might last longer as the clear works as a cover. It can be wet sanded and polished with rubbing compound, also. This is a good thing to do on running boards and bed strips. Those normally take a beating and all. I did this on a 1957 Bel-Air I painted using Deltron (white top over red body) and everybody said it looked just like rubbed lacquer. Good luck!

Oh, also...some have mentioned various spray guns. I've learned if your gun is very clean and all the seals are good it doesn't matter. I have a pretty expensive Binks gun, a Binks copy made in Japan and an HLVP gun from China I paid about $50 for at English Color. The only benefit is the gun from China wastes less paint in overspray. Aside from that they all turn out the same sort of work.