Bad Po Po, Bad

It sucks as you get older and things like eyesight tend to go. Even with glasses and magnifying lenses, some things tend to still get missed.

So now that the body is painted and has sat still for most of the week to degas, I laid another coat of the Extreme Chrome down since it still didn't have that shiny look to it. 

But I started to notice things as I looked everything over. The black paint had air bubbles in it that I didn't notice before.The chrome parts looked like it was flaking off. Though it was washed, sanded, primed, etc., I didn't notice these things until after the fact. And I tend to stare at them before, during and after painting to try and notice.

To a point, it looks okay. Looks like the car has been in service for some time, and they're trying to keep it looking good until they can get a new one! I have a story for everything!

The body lines for the doors are bad. My masking skills are far from subpar. So there is touch ups to be done.

There seems to be spots where the chrome paint doesn't want to stick to. Again, though it was washed, lightly sanded and cleaned up before the primer, it might be the gloss black paint causing the issue. Though it dried for a few days before the chrome was laid down, there's still a reaction.

Again, I didn't see all the issues until after the chrome was laid. But I wasn't about to strip it and start over. In my mind, it actually adds to the build. It's not a full rust bucket, but just starting it's transformation.

So while all of this dried, I thinned out some Testors Tan enamel paint from the bottle with Mr. Color leveling thinner. I bought some tossable cups from HL a few weeks back and this made things a bit easier since all of my little glass cups still have tank paint in them for the next armor piece.

I lowered the air pressure on the gun down to about 8 PSI and closed the spray angle to almost a fine line then adjusted it to paint the entire interior. One thing I actually noticed before any paint was laid on anything was the poor modeling job on the interior door panels. 

It was so weak, when I rubbed my finger across it, I couldn't feel anything. So I spent about 20 minutes or so sanding all of it away. There's no detail left which may or may not be a good thing. But the paint came out nice on it. 

I don't like the fact there are no decals for the dash whatsoever. So that means I will fight the eyesight and see if I can detail it up a bit. 

I sprayed some of the Testors Gloss paint into a few cups so I had something I could touch up the body with. Though I don't have pics of that yet, it's sitting in the room drying. I'll start on painting the motor and finishing the assembly of that.

I believe, later this evening I will start to wet sand the body to try and get some of the blemishes out.

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'70 Ford Galaxie

Picked this kit up earlier this year at Ollies. Bought two of them, ended up giving one to my brothers girlfriends kid. Should have kept it, I know it's just sitting in his closet some place.

Was going to keep this close to box art, light blue and white. Bought some Mr. Surfacer 1000 gray perimeter at HL for this, as I didn't want to try and do it over black. 

Same process as all kits, wash the sprue trees in dawn water and let dry. Did some basic clean up and stripped the chrome. This time however, the bleach wasn't touching the chrome tree. Ended up using oven cleaner. Washed the trees again and primed them.

The body and interior bucket, dash and front seat were done in gray while everything else was done in black.

Once the primer dried, I took a can of Testors Gloss Black spray and did all of the chrome pieces. Lesson learned from last time, the AK Interactive Chrome needs to go over a gloss black.

While the chrome was drying, I masked off the body to spray the white first. I was going to use the Createx Opaque White. I did not however, remember the issues I had with it on the Bronco I got for Christmas last year.

SO I ended up with this.

Exact same issue I had on the roof of the Bronco. Only other white I had was a Testors spray can of Gloss White. I let this dry, sanded it down a bit, wiped it clean then sprayed the white. I was worried because the white was coming out of the can in all sorts of directions and seemed very thick.

I heated it up a beat by letting it set in warm water and shook it until the letters almost came off the can. Still spraying the same. All my paints are stored in my closet in a box. It's always about 73-75 degrees in there so not sure what the deal is. 

I let the body sit for for a few days until I couldn't really smell the paint any longer. This way I knew that it was almost degassed. I pulled the tape off and saw some bleed through, but not a lot. Now, I couldn't go with the Createx Blue I had since it's not as shiny as the white I just laid down. So I chose the gloss black.

Testors Gloss Black sprayed the same way. I am thinking I got a batch of bad paint from HL. Again, I heated it up and shook it til letters fell off the can. No change. 

After getting the body covered, I let it set for about 4 hours. I tested the underside of a fender to see if it was dry enough to handle. I started removing the tape and was left with this.

There are some touch ups to do which I will do over the weekend, while I respray another layer of chrome. But it looks like I'm going to have a standard black and white. Which isn't all bad. I've never done one before anyways.

I noticed that there are air bubbles in the black and the white has orange peel. I know I can do away with the orange peel. But not sure what's going to happen with the air bubbles when I try to remove them.

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