But I repaired it myself :)

[the big mike]

Originally Posted by LNasty

after years of spray painting models as a kid I found one way to make the paint come out smoother is to heat up some water in a pan, take it off the heat and put the can in the water for about 3-5 minutes. Makes the paint come out smooth as butta

really? spray cans? My spray cans say that you should work in room temperatures, as it was designed for that.
So I believe heating it wouldn't ameliorate the orange peel.
Heating the paint would make the fluids vaporize even faster, which is mostly what already caused the orange peel in my opinion.

[the big mike]

Originally Posted by rasta

@the big mike, I also noticed you didn't sand the paint off the entire piece of plastic....so you only needed to sand the area you were working on?

I did two different jobs:

1) The repair:
- grinding the cracks
- smoothen it out with sandpaper
- apply putty
- reshape using sandpaper

2) The paintjob:
- sanding every little piece of plastic I could find... EVERYTHING!!!
- degreasing
- primer x3
- color x3
- clearcoat x2

So the answer of your question depends of what job you were talking about
Anyhow, I didn't take pictures of the whole process as I hadn't thought of documenting it

[LNasty]

Originally Posted by the big mike

really? spray cans? My spray cans say that you should work in room temperatures, as it was designed for that.
So I believe heating it wouldn't ameliorate the orange peel.
Heating the paint would make the fluids vaporize even faster, which is mostly what already caused the orange peel in my opinion.

Works great for me, don't want boiling water, just warm

[massacremasses]

This one time I repainted my bike. I did it for $100

But I have the unfair advantage of having a 65,000 paint booth at my disposal, and uncle who is a painter, a grandfather who is a former body repair man and has pretty much everything I needed in his garage minus the paint... I also just used a single stage though.

http://www.ninjette.org/forums/showt...inja+evolution

end result. smexy

[the big mike]

Originally Posted by massacremasses

This one time I repainted my bike. I did it for $100

But I have the unfair advantage of having a 65,000 paint booth at my disposal, and uncle who is a painter, a grandfather who is a former body repair man and has pretty much everything I needed in his garage minus the paint... I also just used a single stage though.

http://www.ninjette.org/forums/showt...inja+evolution

end result. smexy

wow nice! did you do it all yourself too?

[massacremasses]

Originally Posted by the big mike

wow nice! did you do it all yourself too?

My uncle painted it. It was my bday present.

I did sand, primer, and sand and sand. My grandpa helped me mix the bondo. HE NEVER LETS ME DO IT BY MYSELF! haha its funny because Im 25 and hes 82.