I've got me hands on some side skirts and an 'is lip spoiler for ye olde e30.
The skirts were unfinished and I want them red, and the lip spoiler was ripped, now been plastic welded and filled.
I've brought them into work to paint them since its dry and I can nip off and give them a coat every so often rather than waste time sitting round at the weekend.
Lip spoiler
So far, I've filled, sanded and plastic primed it. Then I gave it a few coats of filler primer. I've just now sanded that back to get it level. I used wet & dry 'wet' going from 240, 600 and 800.
Now its level, parts of the plastic have come back through and some of it has the filler primer and plastic primer showing.
Obviously, since the plastic is showing, it'll need plastic priming again yes?
Once plastic primed, do I need to sand it again? if so will 800 be ok - again used wet?
Skirts
Again, I used plastic primer (grey), then red primer to make it easier for the red paint. I've done this straight with 800grit wet and some of the black plastic is showing through.
Plastic primer again?
Will I have to sand the primer prior to paint and will 800grit be ok?
My bright and airy prep space
...no I wont be putting the actual paint on down there
Cheers!
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The advice I gave you was based on doing it right hehehe with proper paint.. When you paint rattle can paint the only advice I can give is dont get runs Let it go tacky between coats so if you touch a unseen area its tacky and no paint comes off on your fingers...