Painting Blues

Up at 0500 to beat the bugs. Wet sanded with 600 paper. Dried it, and then used a blow dryer to remove any possible moisture.

Mixed paint. Readied the grille, placed it on sawhorse outside. Laid paint on scuffed areas.

Ooops, looks like a bug is squriming in the sticky paint. Use tweezer, extract the bug but it falls apart in the paint. Ok, I'll take it outside again and just shoot that spot and another small overspray area.

Bug area looks good, overspray area done...looks good.

Bring it in. Oh no...a hair fell in the bug area..a nice long chest hair. And, the bug? It's still there. Now, I have a chest hair, and a bug in an other wise really nice paint job.

But now as I type this, there is a sag, where the chest hair is, and where the bug parts are they are showing up through the paint because it is thinner there where the paint sagged from.

Think I'll quite while I am ahead and stick to crayons.

9N'er

P.S. If you're trying to paint on a tight schedule, then you've already offended the acrylic flow-out gods, and you will see them stick their thumb in your paint (this is what causes runs and sags. Runs are from a thump, sags are from a flow-out god swipe.)