rharshberger
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Clear coated the wings and tail of the GLR Nuclear Sledgehammer and worked on pictures and captioning for a Science Fair outreach we are doing Friday night.
Packing rockets for HARA launch tomorrow
Accidentally learned that wadding and kleenex look the same in peripheral vision, and one of them is Not good for blowing the nose.....
Now THAT is a true LOLAnd one of them is not good for blowing the nose cone...
That Falcon 3 should be an awesome rocket to fly.Dusted off my stalled Falcon 3..
Sounds like your glitter paint slid off the gloss undercoat. Try a flat undercoat (or primer) instead, and go very light, building up successively.Made a pretty bad error in painting. Thought I could get away with light coats, even in cold weather. I kept the cans indoors to get up to room temp.
Base gloss coat/primer combo went fine. I waited the "either 1 hour or 48 hours" on the can (actually 1 hour) before spraying the glitter coats. Daugher's nosecone / fin can, and the body on my Crossfire ISX, both look like road maps. Fins are OK on mine. My son's turned out just fine regardless. Seems the darker colors work better with Rustoleum glitter and/or 2x? not sure.
Either way, lessons learned:
1) Sand glassine layer a bit, and rough up plastic parts to promote adhesion.
2) Wait for warmer weather
3) Ignore the 1 hour option on the can, let it dry a full 48 instead.
I'm going to try to get some aggro sandpaper and knock off the paint on the ISX and start over. Option B is to fill the cracks with something (I have DAP putty that I used for filets) and re-coat. My daughters I think is salvageable. EDIT: no, it's not. Just checked. Add it to the "to be sanded" list.
Sometimes, you just have to back up and punt!
It must be *less* than 1 hour. In other words, you must do all your painting within 1 hour or else wait a couple of days (or more, especially in the cold weather.) If you waited 1 hour to start the next coat that could explain your problem.
Normally I wait 10-15 minutes between coats, planning so that the final coat is done within the hour. This includes the times when I've done primer coats followed by top coats within that hour (only tried that once, but it worked).
Knock on wood I haven't had a crinkle coat yet, although I realize it'll happen eventually.
Sounds like your glitter paint slid off the gloss undercoat. Try a flat undercoat (or primer) instead, and go very light, building up successively.
Glitter and fluorescent paints are a different formulation than spray enamels. I found out the hard way.
True, except it's 35 degrees outside. I figured being colder would push it closer to an actual hour.
Well the other part is that you’re not supposed to paint in 35 degree weather...
But either way it *sounds* like you might have waited too long between base and glitter. But hard to ever know for certain.
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+1! Everybody go volunteer for some volunteer slots.Me too!
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