More forward movement... albeit slowly.
I got the final coats of trans-blue on today, following a gun malfunction on the weekend and subsequent levelling.
The end result isn't what I saw in my head originally, but as far as an experimental process for me, I'll call it a success.
I pictured a deeper blue. I learnt the depth of colour in the cup does not equally reflect the atomised paint layer going down.
Despite all my test mixing and spraying, I now think I should have gone even heavier on the dye in the clear. This is even after doubling my test mix ratio. Oh well, live & learn.
I still can't seem to get perfectly smooth coat yet, so do have a bit of orange peel to level out once cured, but completely manageable.
It will polish up just fine.
Between having to re-spray and build up coats to get the depth of colour, there is a sh**-tonne lacquer on there. No fear of sand-through on this one!
The photo doesn't show it, the blue tinted clear over the silver metallic actually creates a bit of a pearlescence that I wasn't totally expecting. Once I have it levelled and polished, I'll take some close up photos that will hopefully come through better.
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