Man, I am having one of those nights. Got the first trim color for the new plane on last night. Pulled tape and had to back mask one little area to re-shoot the base color (darned taped pulled up while I was shooting the trim color - sigh... It happens). So I get done and decide to tape off and shoot the canopy. The plan was to shoot a light coat of this blue I have so the base color would show through. Great. I tape and mask and mix up the paint. What's the first rule of painting? Alway shoot on a test panel before you shoot on the plane. Well, I didn't and shot the paint on the canopy ... and out comes a bunch of blops. Something in the gun. Man, and I just cleaned the darned thing.
So, plan one out the door. I guess we shoot it a solid color. That's OK, it should look pretty good. So I lay on 3 thin coats of the color and it looks OK. Now, the smart thing to do would have been to walk away right then. But NOOOOO. I had to screw with it. I thought I'd just pull the paper and mask off and leave the taping until tomorrow. Now, I won't go into all the gyrations of this, suffice it to say, I manage to put my finger into the wet paint, not once, or twice, but three times. I did it the first time and it was just a tiny spot. So I put the paper and mask back on and re-shot the one area. then managed to do it again when I was pulling off the mask. Fixed that and then on the third time, I managed to remind myself to just walk away. So the tape is still on, but I'll have to sand the area ( great big spot, right in the middle of the canopy), re-re-re-re-mask it and re-shoot it for, what? A fourth time?, tomorrow.
This is Randy screaming off into the night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Topic: Stupid Paint Tricks (Read 2304 times)