just wet sand it for like 12 hours, you'll get it knocked down lol

I cna do it all, but Paint and body scares me

 

That would have made sense, lol.

Been wet sanding for about 3 hours this morning, it's looking pretty good. Still have the panel break and lower part of the door left to do.

Question for you guys - I burned through to the base coat in 2 really small areas and all the way down to primer in 1 small area. Can I touch these spots up? Everything around them is sanded to 600, I was thinking about maybe roughing them up to 400, shooting these areas with 2 more coats of base, then a couple coats of clear and then blending them in with the rest of the panel. Sound reasonable? Or should I just touch up the area where I burned through to primer with another coat or 2 of base, then re-clear the entire thing? I'm assuming I can spray more clear over the 600 wet sanded clear?

 

Back at it. Found several solvent pop spots in the clear as I was sanding, so I decided to re-spray the base too. Sanded everything down with 220/400/600, now two coats into the base. I'm going to do 4-5 base coats to be sure I have all of the sanding scratches filled before I move on to the clear. The base is going on well, I adjusted my gun a bit...decreased the pressure so it's at 30psi at the gauge, turned the fluid **** in 2 turns after it started moving the trigger, and I'm doing fast passes overlapping about 75% or so.

 

Did the first coat of clear as a tack coat, read in a few places that would help the subsequent coats keep from running.

 

I did the second coat, went a little slower. Maybe I'm just paranoid about spraying too much but I don't feel like I got enough on the panel. A couple places I read that the second coat should look like the finished product. Mine has tons of orange peel. Should I go even slower, or just keep at it the same way?

 

Bumped the pressure up 10 psi and opened the fluid valve up 3/4 turn. Now we're getting somewhere 2 more coats to go...

 

Looks like a fun project and should be rewarding when done. Not sure I have the patience for something like this though.

Can't wait to see it done.

 

I can't wait to see it done either, lol. My patience is wearing thin...hopefully as I do more it will go quicker as I learn more from my mistakes.

5 coats of base and 5 coats of clear, all done. Looks pretty good. I have a handful of pinpoint size fisheyes to fill still, but I'm happy with how it came out.

 

Look online for some "fisheye remover". Comes in a smaller squirt container kinda like soap. It helps prevent those, it just takes a few drops.

 

I'll try that next time, thanks.