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First cab:CHERRYCADE -Finished!
emphatic:
I haven't watched this thread for a while, but the control panel looks great! :applaud:
dandare:
Thank you Thank you.
Had a bit of a set back with the paint job.
Basically giant cracks appeared over night! I'm thinking it was due to continual bad weather whenever i painted, rained on several times, and moving the thing inside and outside so much.
I tried filling the cracks and touching up but just looked lumpy.
I was on the verge of taking a sledge hammer to it!!
Soooo - after a chill-pill or two I ended up sanding the whole thing down to the wood and starting over.
Its actually looking very nice now, and will post some pics later today hopefully. :)
drventure:
I love these bartops
About the paint, gloss is tough to pull off on large surfaces.
If you're sanding down anyway, you might want to grab a few cans of that spray body putty. It's like a super thick primer. Sand, spray it on, let dry, sand, repeat, and get progressively down to 600 or 800 grit sandpaper and you can get an awesome finish, even with plywood, or mdf..
Check OND's Astro project for details.
IG-88:
--- Quote from: drventure on March 30, 2011, 07:44:52 am ---I love these bartops
About the paint, gloss is tough to pull off on large surfaces.
If you're sanding down anyway, you might want to grab a few cans of that spray body putty. It's like a super thick primer. Sand, spray it on, let dry, sand, repeat, and get progressively down to 600 or 800 grit sandpaper and you can get an awesome finish, even with plywood, or mdf..
Check OND's Astro project for details.
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Is this spray body putty a two part stuff that you have to mix together and then spray on with a gun?
dandare:
Spray putty. Yeah absolutely.
I did use one small can of the stuff the first time round (lets refer to that time as "pre-crack") and it was great, very smooth.
I picked that up on ebay as my local Halfords store didn't sell spray putty.
However this time round (post-crack) realized that they do. Its just called 'High build primer' and is exactly the same thing.
IG-88, Its a just a one part regular type of spray in a can, just seems to be a bit thicker than regular primer. But there may well be a high end two-part type that they use in pro auto shops?