thethee
Senior Member
The paint that is currently on my Imperial is really bad, it's faded flat greyish. It had a slight mad max kind of feel but when I pulled it out of hibernation it just looks sad. So I'm gonna try my hand at painting this spring.
Having never done this before I thought it best to start with something small to learn so I took off one of the headlamp doors for testing.
I sanded it down with 180 grit to remove the existing orange peel. Followed with 240, 320 and 400 grit changing direction ~90 degrees between grits. All wet block sands by the way. Prepped the surface with degrease and gave it 3 coats of single stage gloss black.
The issue I'm having is that even though the coverage seems great I can clearly see the sanding scratches show through the paint.
Did I not use a fine enough grit or should I use a machine instead of by hand? I thought since the current paint is on okay I wouldn't need primer, did I assume wrong?
I'm aware painting is an art so I'm not expecting perfection but would love some pointers and try something new.
Tried to take a picture but it doesn't really show
Having never done this before I thought it best to start with something small to learn so I took off one of the headlamp doors for testing.
I sanded it down with 180 grit to remove the existing orange peel. Followed with 240, 320 and 400 grit changing direction ~90 degrees between grits. All wet block sands by the way. Prepped the surface with degrease and gave it 3 coats of single stage gloss black.
The issue I'm having is that even though the coverage seems great I can clearly see the sanding scratches show through the paint.
Did I not use a fine enough grit or should I use a machine instead of by hand? I thought since the current paint is on okay I wouldn't need primer, did I assume wrong?
I'm aware painting is an art so I'm not expecting perfection but would love some pointers and try something new.
Tried to take a picture but it doesn't really show