Yesterday I went ahead and painted the Jayhawk Chevy Orange. I love the color, but noticed a lot of areas where the paint went on dry or over spray was pretty noticeable. It seems for me anyways I can't escape it. I can get one section to look great, but in the process of doing so I get the other side with over spray. It's a vicious cycle
To make it worse the engines enamels from Duplicolor spray in a "cone" shape pattern, not a fan, which can be adjusted.
So I went ahead and wet sanded the finish and got it pretty smooth, although as always because I only had maybe a couple coats of paint on it I sanded through on some areas. Normally what I do is after I apply say 3-5 coats of paint I wait about 30 minutes and apply several light coats of clear, which really makes it look nice. Then after it dries I come back and wet sand and polish the finish, but a lot of time I just leave "as is" and it looks great.
I'm going to come back and laid down a few more coats of Chevy Orange and then the clear like I always do. I think the reason why I didn't this time is because I did a lousy job painting the orange as far as over spray and dry spots, that I felt the cleat clear wouldn't help as much. Pictures below are of the Jayhawk after I wet sanded it. You can see the areas that I sanded through
A couple things I learned while building this kit. Next time I decide on building I'll attach the main wings already sanded and primer and then attach the winglets, because if you do it this way it's a lot easier to sand the main wings in the proper direction of the wood grain. When you have the winglets on it makes it very difficult.
I also learned not to wet sand the primer coats, because doing so causes the wood to delaminate or swell showing the grooves in the grain. I did in fact go back and sand the wood down and filled in all the imperfections.
I apologize for the side ways pictures etc. I've been trying to post these pictures right side up as they are saved on my computer and I can't seem to do it. WTF!!!? It pisses me off that this site as changed so much that you can't properly upload pictures!!!
I can't even delete the ones I have and try to reload. Now they are in some kind of gray box???