I tried that while I was living in a dorm in college. Painted a Ranchero with a can of Testors Boyd's Black & Blue pearl. Worked great, except everything in the bathroom had a nice dark blue tint from the overspray!
There are several different options for rattle can paint.
Check your local Wal-Mart for the new Valspar HOK paints (in the model section) or check your local hobby shop(s) for Tamiya or Testors new Lacquer paints or try the web:
http://www.blackgoldweb.com/BLACKGOLDPAINTDEALERS.html
http://ourworld.cs.com/mcwautofinishes/paint/catalog.html
Do you have a sight where we can view some of your drawings? I love the sketch pad articles and think some of your drawings would make awesome backgrounds for us windows users!
That is one sweet little roadster. Mabey its a good thing (for everyone else) that you don't enter many contests, that thing has winner written all over it!
Just signed up and thought I'd say hello! I see a lot of familiar names and several new. For those not familiar with my work here are a few pics of some of my builds.
The rest can be seen here: http://public.fotki.com/mrboyle/model_cars-1/