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Was hoping to get the colour on tonight but after doing a spot of stopper work and a little spot priming I spotted some black flecks of "crud" (official painters terminology) that was dropping from the roof onto the primer. The "Crud" wasn't sticking and blew off with the airline but I'm not having that on the top coat!
Just been onto the Argos website and for £17 I can get a 2.7M X 2.7M pop up gazebo. So it's ordered and I will collect when they open at 9 in the morning. So the plan for tomorrow is to erect the Gazebo in the workshop just to keep the "crud" fairies away from the bonnet then crack on to hopefully get at least 3 coats of top coat on before days end and hopefully get the tub cleaned up ready for etch priming and primer filler application on Sunday.... got to love a plan. If only they survived first contact with the enemy!
TTFN
Mac
a bit orange peely but I can live with that as I planned to take it back with 600 then 1200 anyway. 2 bloody multi legged beasties but have managed to resist touching them so will have to wait until it goes off properly before I yank them out.
TTFN
Mac
60 minutes after laying down the first coat its touch dry, managed to flick out the 2 beasties and they didn't leave a mark so very happy. Giving it another 30 minutes then I will lay down the second coat. Only problem with painting is that I dared not do anything else to the tub for fear of stirring up a dust cloud. So lots of coffee and watching paint dry for me today :-)
Found 4 small areas that need attention but am going to stick with plan a and lay down a last coat, mainly because its already mixed so if I don't use it then its for the bin. I will then leave it for today and be back in the morning. I will then use some stopper to fill the 3 small dings and will have to sand back the lump. after that it will get 2 more coats and that should be enough to allow me to wet sand it to get rid of the orange peel.
2 small dents
One good sized dent
One small dent
a small lump!
To be honest I knew that the bonnet would be a challenge compared to the body because of the amount of changes that I made to it, bearing in mind that the biggest of these defects is probably no more than a mm in diameter I'm not that upset.
Scottie, if I could give one piece of advise with regard to painting it would be to learn when to walk away!
Phil, Cheers Phil, not as much as I have!
So today we are mostly wet sanding!
The orange peel is quite noticeable and is one of the down sides to using what I would refer to generically as "truck Coat" but I think is officially known as 2K Urethane topcoat. It goes on quite thick and does cover a multitude of sins but as it goes on thick it does by its nature leave an orange peel finish.
This shot gives you an idea of what I ended up with out of the gun:
After about a minute using 600 grit with water with a dash of cheep washing up liquid as the lubricant. You can see the tops of the highs has been removed but you can still see the lows as shiny areas.
The same spot a couple of minutes later and were pretty much down to a flat dull surface which is what were looking for:
A shot of the edge of the area so you can see the difference in stages.
My OCD will not let me just bang another coat on, learn from my mistakes! I really shouldn't have missed out guide coating the bonnet.
Luckily I have a full tube of finishing stopper and although it looks a mess I've used less than 10% of the tube. It goes of quick and have fired up the heater to help so hopefully It will set quick enough for me to still get it flatted back and a couple of coats on this afternoon.
well that went well! Thinned it down a little more this time, the official ratios by volume are 4 parts paint, 1 part activator, 1 part thinners. Have upped the thinners to about 1.5 and a lot less orange peel. I'm very happy I went the extra mile with wet sanding and stopper as the finish is noticeably better.
You can still see the orange peel but its much reduced. Another coat or maybe 2 depending on how I go through the litre I have mixed. and that will be the bonnet done. It will be put to one side and will only be finish sanded once its back in place.
What a difference a little bit of colour makes Mac and the colour blue will set the car off, i'm not looking forward to blocking all my body as i remember it being hard and tedious work.
Cheers Swifty,
The blocking wouldn't have been too bad but I have bad hands anyway and spending the day dunking them in and out of cold water hasn't helped :-(
To be honest it isn't my favourite job but it didn't take as I feared it would and the improvement of the finish has made it worth while.
Onto the tub tomorrow!
Mac
