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Andy298

Andy298

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Well it came last week, but just not had chance to open it till today

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As it's such a nice day I decided to go down to Halfords to pick up paints and other stuff needed to spray the case

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I think I have everything I need. 800 and 1500 Wet & Dry (had no 2000 in stock!), Sanding Block, Masking Tape, Mat Black Paint and PlastiKoat Gray Primer. I was going to get Etching Primer and a separate plastic Primer, but halfords didn't have any Etching Primer left so had to get this PlastiKote stuff which can be used on both metals and plastics apparently!? I think I have some tack cloths knocking about somewhere too but will have to dig them out. Anyone think of anything else I need?
 
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First coat of primer on one side panel. Not bad I think as I never done it before :p
Gonna let it dry for a few hours, lightly sand down then prime again. Just taking window off other panel now so I can sand that whilst this is drying. Wish me luck :D
 
Looking forward to seeing how this goes. Might have been better with satin black instead of mat black. I sprayed my crt mat black a while back and whilst the finish is ok, satin black would have been a lot nicer.
 
dale1uk said:
Looking forward to seeing how this goes. Might have been better with satin black instead of mat black. I sprayed my crt mat black a while back and whilst the finish is ok, satin black would have been a lot nicer.
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Hmm might do that. I can always take this back and say I picked up wrong one. Does Satin Black need Lacqure (sp)? Don't really want it to have a shine finish if you get me?
 
Nah you dont need to lacquer it. I just found that the mat black gave a kind of unfinished look as if it was just sprayed with black primer. Might just of been the paint but just doesn't quite look right.
Might be exactly what your wanting though so just try it out and see if you like it or not. A can of paint only £7/8 so not a huge deal if you need to spray over it if you dont like it.
 
Right, progress so far...

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Sorry about bad pics, it's with phone camera. My proper cam needs charging.
Anyway, they've all been primed twice and they are under the stairs drying off. Ran out of primer so need to get some more when I'm off, hopefully sometime this week, then prime them again and then paint. I haven't done the front of the case and the top, again because I ran out of primer :D They should be ready to painnt by the weekend.
 
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Mark A said:
Cool i cant wait to see the result, should look great in matt black :) .
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Me too! Although it's not Mat Black anymore. I took Dale's advice and changed Mat for Black Satin. Managed to get Thursday off this week so gonna finish the priming then start painting it over the weekend.
 
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