soxfanjake
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I decided to dabble in airbrushing and repaint my Goalie mask. I stripped the entire mask (because of some deep dings and scratches) down to the bare kevlar. Gave it a good cleaning and de-greasing. I sprayed it with a high build primer from the auto parts store. This revealed some imperfections that I leveled with fiberglass filler, re-sanded, and re-primed (a couple times). After I was happy with the smoothness, I sprayed a 2 base coats of flat black rustoleum enamel (my initial intention was to keep it a flat look). Everything looked fine and I waited two days before airbrushing my design on the mask. The base coat seemed hard. I had a flat clear enamel from rustoleum and a gloss "crystal" clear from rustoleum. I decided at the last minute to go with the gloss. I sprayed one coat of the gloss, waited 2 hours and sprayed another. Then I went on vacation for a week. I came back and the clear was still soft. I could make a dent with a fingernail and if i pressed hard, it would leave a fingerprint.
Spray conditions: In my garage, 75° when I sprayed (ac was on), 90° when i left for the week (ac off and a heat wave in Nashville). I don't have RH #'s but I don't believe it was extremely high. There was a light scuffing between all coats with scotchbright (except after airbrushing of course), a good color sand on the base, and a final sand with 1500, 2000, and 4000.
I do have a nice compressor and spray guns that I use to shoot actual automotive projects. I just didn't want to get all set up for just a mask. I don't want to start over since the airbrushing took me a week to get "right" (for a first time airbrusher anyway).
Thanks in advance for any insight.
Spray conditions: In my garage, 75° when I sprayed (ac was on), 90° when i left for the week (ac off and a heat wave in Nashville). I don't have RH #'s but I don't believe it was extremely high. There was a light scuffing between all coats with scotchbright (except after airbrushing of course), a good color sand on the base, and a final sand with 1500, 2000, and 4000.
I do have a nice compressor and spray guns that I use to shoot actual automotive projects. I just didn't want to get all set up for just a mask. I don't want to start over since the airbrushing took me a week to get "right" (for a first time airbrusher anyway).
Thanks in advance for any insight.