Jed D
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Registered: 15th Mar 11
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first off yerr yerr i know, rattle cans are crap blah blah blah
im on painting something plastic and iv prepped it to fuck and expected a good finish in gloss black but as the paint dries it goes a cloudy matt black type of colour... what can i do to prevent this?
im painting in a well ventilated area and iv done this many many times before and had a perfect finish but i cant seem to get it gloss enough
here are some examples of decent finishes iv done with rattle cans in the past
iv de-textured all the orange peal on the plastic, primed it, p240'd, p360'd primed again p500'd and painted as i always did in the past ^
its also the same paint
any suggestions?
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DanCobb
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Where are you doing it? Sometimes happens when it's too cold!
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Jed D
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well i done it in the house the other day and gave it plenty time to dry but it was cloudy. so iv p500'd it all back down to the finest part of the primer and done it again just outside the house but under shelter... isn't too cold outside id say
i rattle canned a whole boot in outside once when there was snow on the ground... looked canny good for a rattle can job, hard to tell
[Edited on 29-02-2012 by Jed D]
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3CorsaMeal
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this happens to me with my corrado colour paint, no other seems to do it, just the corrado stuff, and i've now bought 3 diffferent makes of paint in the same colour 
i had to use a few coats of laquer then cutting compound after it had all dried and super resin polish, lots of rubbing and eventually it comes out shiney
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corsa-torque
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Warm the panel before painting, use a hair dryer etc
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Jed D
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quote:
Originally posted by corsa-torque
Warm the panel before painting, use a hair dryer etc
its plastic mate
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FAZ
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might still work jed
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Jed D
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just tried it....
paints still wet so its hard to call yet but looks like its going cloudy again round the edge's 
think il let it dry over a good 24hours and try polishing it maybe...?
[Edited on 29-02-2012 by Jed D]
this was before i did it again after heating 
[Edited on 29-02-2012 by Jed D]
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