Well the next step will be a 2K primer on the 1/4 panels.
When I got home from work I sanded what was left from yesterday and needed to apply one last coat of filler for the pinholes and "finetuning". Once again I switched up color on the hardener back to blue and this last coat is straight polyester glaze.It's a very dense material and has good holdout qualities when topcoated with primers and urethanes
. I used 150 grit for starting off blocksanding on the last coat and when I got close to being complete I used 240 grit to finish the blocking.Once the blocking is finished I breeze over it with 320 grit on the DA and it's ready for primer..
The trick is to get all this repair area to a fine grit before priming so it has minimal shrinking when your color and clear are applied. If you prime over say, 80 or 150 grit a couple of weeks or so after you've completed the job those coarse sanding scratches will become visible in the finish due too shrinking. It will look good at first but they will come back so fine grit it is.
I ran out of some material so hopefully tomorrow I can stock back up. This is how they look now in 320 grit.
10-04-2011, 08:16 PM
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