The Great Pumpkin - '71 Duster
The next disaster was the paint. As mentioned, the outer jacket was all beat up. Unfortunately, the scuff-and-shoot idea went out the window as soon as the first droplets of paint came out of the nozzle.
I actually had to go back and look at this thread from when I did the column the first time and figure out what paint I used. Besides laying it on too heavy here, that particular formula turned out to be too shiny.
To dull it, I tried a matte clear. I probably didn't wait long enough for the base to dry. It had also gotten colder out which didn't help. Either way, there was something between the two layers that made the clear shrink and crack. Grrrr...
Thought I had the surface clean enough to re-prime and try again but nope, same deal.
No choice now but to strip it completely. Suppose I could have used the outer jacket in the background but all the collars had to be re-done anyway so it wouldn't have matched.
Continued below.
The next disaster was the paint. As mentioned, the outer jacket was all beat up. Unfortunately, the scuff-and-shoot idea went out the window as soon as the first droplets of paint came out of the nozzle.
I actually had to go back and look at this thread from when I did the column the first time and figure out what paint I used. Besides laying it on too heavy here, that particular formula turned out to be too shiny.
To dull it, I tried a matte clear. I probably didn't wait long enough for the base to dry. It had also gotten colder out which didn't help. Either way, there was something between the two layers that made the clear shrink and crack. Grrrr...
Thought I had the surface clean enough to re-prime and try again but nope, same deal.
No choice now but to strip it completely. Suppose I could have used the outer jacket in the background but all the collars had to be re-done anyway so it wouldn't have matched.
Continued below.