A few weeks ago, we tackled the surprisingly-theraputic job of sanding the body parts. Most of the old paint was peeling off and our fiberglass work left some residual resin in a few places, so we figured it was best to strip everything thing down to the original plastic.
A bit of elbow grease plus a couple of orbital sanders made light work of the paint-removal and we were soon applying the first coat of our stealthy-black paint, spraying the pieces of bodywork underneath the reassembled (useless) gazebo/paint-booth.
A week later and we examined our work. Unfortunately, black paint isn't very forgiving and it certainly didn't cut us any slack exposing the nasty side-effect of using an orbital sander (with 200-grit paper): swirls. They were all over the place.
We figured we needed to go down to a finer grit and settled on using 600-grit, thanks to a recommendation from a man who's done this kind of thing before (I thought we were the only ones). We used the paper dry at first, then wet. It worked like a charm. The swirls disappeared and left us with a perfect surface to apply our remaining coats.
Not sure how many we ended up applying in the end, but with some expert guidance from Jason's mum, we had everything painted in no time.
We left the parts to cure for a couple of weeks before tackling the reassembly.
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