I finally got a chance to paint on Sunday-
I'm doing a 3 stage candy on my Sportster so I figure a trial run would be a good idea...my 1st real project-
The Primer went on fine...I did notice some very small pin holes after laying down the paint-Not sure what could've caused this...they did wet sand over and were not evident in the base coat-(silver metallic) which went on like butter at 35 PSI-1.3 tip-
I was surprised how wet I could lay that stuff down-
The candy was a bit tricky at 1st-
I tried doing a coat or 2 with mixing the candy and reducer only-
Afraid I might run out of candy before my actual project I mixed lean and had a hot pink panel instead of blood red-My GF was nice enough to run to the drug store and get me some syringes and an eye-dropper-
This made mixing the candy much easier-
I ended up going about 5mL to 3oz of ready to spray clear-
That went on great at about 30 PSI... played with the flow and PSI here a bit-but I think I got the feel
I did get it to sag and run...but I really had to lay it on there...so now I should now the boundaries...
Finally I did a nice couple times over with straight clear...
again I laid this on pretty thick...but did eventually find the running point-
Just sharing my expierence...hopfully next weekend on the tins it goes just as good-
I didn't sand the base coat-is that recommended?
If the clear or clear candy does run on me what should I do?
Stop and wipe or continue and sand it out after it drys?
I'm doing a 3 stage candy on my Sportster so I figure a trial run would be a good idea...my 1st real project-
The Primer went on fine...I did notice some very small pin holes after laying down the paint-Not sure what could've caused this...they did wet sand over and were not evident in the base coat-(silver metallic) which went on like butter at 35 PSI-1.3 tip-
I was surprised how wet I could lay that stuff down-
The candy was a bit tricky at 1st-
I tried doing a coat or 2 with mixing the candy and reducer only-
Afraid I might run out of candy before my actual project I mixed lean and had a hot pink panel instead of blood red-My GF was nice enough to run to the drug store and get me some syringes and an eye-dropper-
This made mixing the candy much easier-
I ended up going about 5mL to 3oz of ready to spray clear-
That went on great at about 30 PSI... played with the flow and PSI here a bit-but I think I got the feel
I did get it to sag and run...but I really had to lay it on there...so now I should now the boundaries...
Finally I did a nice couple times over with straight clear...
again I laid this on pretty thick...but did eventually find the running point-
Just sharing my expierence...hopfully next weekend on the tins it goes just as good-
I didn't sand the base coat-is that recommended?
If the clear or clear candy does run on me what should I do?
Stop and wipe or continue and sand it out after it drys?