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how many coats of paint is enough on the back of my plexi for cp
javeryh:
Is the top layer of paint going to be visible on the plexi or are you painting some plexi and turning it upsidedown so the unpainted surface faces up? If you are doing the latter then I'd imagine one coat of paint is enough because all you want to do is make sure no light gets through (the smoothness of your paint job would be hidden, right?).
struby:
ah best thing i read all day, correct, the underside gets painted, so maybe one more coat tonight, then i'll do my wiring and button putting in tomorrow etc and i'll be good to go
FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: struby on April 03, 2007, 06:21:19 pm ---ah best thing i read all day, correct, the underside gets painted, so maybe one more coat tonight, then i'll do my wiring and button putting in tomorrow etc and i'll be good to go
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I've always busted out two coats...cuz the one time I did 1 coat, a small area of the CP was slightly visible through (of course the pain was blue and the CP under was black).
NoOne=NBA=:
For anybody else considering this, you can buy black plexi at most plastic stores.
struby:
it comes out fantastic, and I don't think it really has the same look black plexi would, here's what happened, I put one coat on, got impatient, put a second coat on before the first coat dried and the second coat ???krinkled??? in spots, I dunno the word for that, but I don't think it will show through, and I sprayed over another coat like 3 hours later and went over the krinkled spots and almost did another coat, but I ran out of paint, so I think, though messy on the bottom, the top will still look fine.