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Thanks Paul. I agree, as long as it is finally all one colour I don't really care and after I sanded back the bonnet quite dramatically the orange peel disappeared.
Mazdarazmataz, I gave it about 24 hours between coats but only gave the surface a very light sand with 400 grit between coats to give it a key. For the deep sand and polish, I left the bonnet for a week to harden.
BTW, just had a look at the website where I bought the paint and I bought the wrong thinners - oops. Here's a link to their site with all the tech info:
I've bought 5 litres of primer and colour. I'm hoping that will give me 2 coats of base and 3 of top coat.
Five litres of paint mixed 50/50 with high-gloss thinners did me about six coats (I lost count). That was sprayed on though, you might get through more paint using a roller. Or less
The orange (lemon?) peel is quite bad but as I discovered on the bonnet of you get enough paint on you can cut this back. One other note of caution, if you are painting a really bright colour with the garage door open the flies love it. These can be removed when the paint is dry with a little bit of wet and dry
Thanks guys. The photographs hide a whole host of horrors but I think most of these can be sorted once the paint has properly hardened and i can cut it back. Only two more coats to go.
Just looking to get a good, thick layer with the roller to allow me to cut the surface back off. It worked quite well on the bonnet, although the edges are, inevitably, thin.
High density foam rollers. I removed the lumpy bits from the primer but didn't flat it as I knew the gloss would be just as orange peeley (is that a word?). I'm going to give at least a month to harden before going near it with and wet and dry after the final coat.
It would make the process long and more laborious but I would let it harden between coats and flatten back. I believe from my limited experience of painting (please note only spraying not rollering) is that if you paint over the peaks and troughs of the orange peel will just be accentuate the peaks. This means when you come to do final flattening back you would be more susceptible to going through to primer if attemptingto get a true flat surface for depth of shine.
This is just an uniformed guesstimate so feel free to ignore.
