I hope you guys can remember my previous post about rough paint finish. So I experimented a bit with gloss black instead of flat black. I further thinned the paint and it's super watery now. But the finish is just slightly better.

Meaning, it's not as rough but still quite rough. For a gloss black, it's considered very rough.

So I'm thinking, what's the problem here? Took me a while to think about it and I remember touching the primed parts and the roughness is similar.

Correct me if I'm wrong but does primer with extra rough finish affect the outcome of the actual paint coat? Like if the primer is smoother, will my actual paint coat be smoother too?

I'm using the ACE gray primer spray can recommended by Avocado

It was... not very far/close....about 1 samsung note of distance? (sorry, can't really think of another way of telling the distance)

It's possible that I may have sprayed a bit too close.. since I think it was windy that day.........

I've since asked around and I was told to sand my primed surface as well. So since you recommended me to do this as well, is it safe to say that primer's surface finish affects the final paint coat? Like if the primer itself gives a very rough finish, the paint will came out very rough as well?

I asked because this is my 2nd kit painted kit and the first kit had similar finish albeit different color but same primer. Also, if the primer is rough, paint finish is rough, will the top coat be rough as well? As in, spotty finish...?




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I guess this will be a big lesson for me. I thought the primer has to be somewhat rough for the paint to adhere properly. Turns out it can be too rough. I'll try again tonight on some spoons, unsanded primed vs sanded primed vs unprimed.

I need to get this out of the way before I start my next project which will be a chrome/candy finish efreet. Can't have a single spot of roughness lol

Thank you and everyone else for the tips. Yeah, some pieces are more..leveled while some are a lot more rough. I didn't think that it would affect the end finish much.

One more question though. I used the same primer for pretty much all painted pieces. I don't think I have this problem on gunmetal pieces. Gunmetal is thicker which masked the rough primed surface?

hmm felt like working for a candy color finish on my next kit. So I'm trying to find the most efficient way to achieve this. I bought a cheap pylox (nippon) chromo rattle can and tested on some spoons.



Above spoons are some with slightly different primer. But regardless of the primer, it seems... grainy. Without a mirror chrome finish, would I be able to achieve this kinda result?

Do you have any recommended way to achieve the clear red result? Airbrush the sparkling silver > clear red? I'm thinking spray can the primer > silver and AB the clear red. But spray can silver/chrome seems grainy......unless..

Where do you get sparkling silver? From a spray can?

ah.. okay! thanks

What primer do you guys use?

Advocado don't you have problems with gloss paint when you used ACE primer?

This post has been edited by GameFr3ak: Mar 30 2018, 02:01 PM

So ATT is currently selling Deep Striker MG at RM800, buy 5 free 1.

You get 6 kits but you only pay 5. Get 6 friends together and all chip in. Each RM666 (lol intentional?)

yeah man... very hard.. also I think bandai's version is very plain ? And for RM6xx..... quite empty

That's reasonable. Is there any anime for Deep Striker? I actually assembled my first kit before seriously watching any Gundam series.

Hmm anyone here uses pledge floor care for gloss top coat? I think I oversprayed and it's spooling on some areas.

Anyone knows how I can get rid of it? Or spraying more thin layers on it would even things out?

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I messed up on that. I bought silver instead of chrome. Those silver you see shoulda been chrome

Please no. Please try to do extensive research on paint types and how to thin them. Please don't cheap out getting hardware store thinner. I like to cheap out using alternatives but thinner is one thing that I'll always use hobby grade products.

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