Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:16 am
Temperature, reduction, air pressure, fluid, gun control etc all add up. Texture tends to stack, if the first coat has peel, no gun adjustment will make the next coat flat.
The first step to flat paint for me, is lighting. There is no such thing as too much light. You want light from every angle when clearing. It will make it THAT much easier to see the clear off the gun.
I never overreduce my products, no matter what (except Epoxy). Sometimes i will use a slower reducer/hardener, but normally i find it unnecessary.
Gun adjustment is important, but usually for me that means wide open on fluid and just shy of wide open on fan. If wide open is too much when i check my pattern, i'll throw on a 1.3 fluid nozzle and run that wide open instead of my usual 1.4mm(Except SATA). This tends to help me get a flatter finish than choking down fluid.
A quality gun is important. I prefer SATA and Iwata, in that order.
Last but not least is the Flow Coat. Sometimes i simply cannot believe the difference this makes. I sand with 400 with a HARD BLOCK until dead flat then hammer on 3 more coats. This probably makes more difference than anything else.
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