Painting outside? I just don't learn...

[Ty Ty]

So yesterday, I should have learned my lesson. Painting with rattlecans is bad enough, doing it outside is just plain stupid.

So far my planning has gone:

-shake can, wait for wind to stop.

-once wind stops, spray some until wind picks back up.

-Notice that the wind drops a bunch of pollen onto wet paint.

-Curse

-Sand the now messed up paint

-repeat

-Curse more

-Give up and try again next day.

The new plan (what i should have done in the first place)

-Finish prepping car for painting (stripping clearcoat, sanding rough spots, fixing little rust marks, taping up everything)

-Make blue tarp paintbooth in garage

-Go get matte black paint (primer i guess) in big cans.

-wait for rallyguy24 to bring air compressor and spraygun over

-sit around, drink beer, and make jokes while rallyguy24 paints car...

Hopefully plan 2 makes the car matte black instead of rough black-ish.

The final idea is for it to be completely matte black with red vinyl lizards crawling all over it, hehe. It'll run like junk till the new turbo motor goes in, but maybe it will look cool.

 

[Ty Ty]

Oh, and as a footnote/afterthought...products that cause paint to bubble and melt, will do the same to human skin...

ow....

 

[RallyGuy24]

Hmm, I am wondering how the vinyl will adhere to the matte black finish. Should we paint a coat of semi gloss black, then apply vinyl then do some sort of satin clearcoat??

 

[Ty Ty]

We can put a matte clearcoat over.

 

[redlinerally]

Clear coat would be best. My only concern is the surface being clean.

 

[RallyGuy24]

well that will work, except the red vinyl will also be matte too.

 

[Ty Ty]

After the new paintjob is done, I'll slap a vinyl on it and watch it for a while to make sure it'll stick.

I'm not too worried.

If they do start to fall off, it will probably be at a rallycross. We can just say that the geckos are seeking freedom, haha.