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themongoose last won the day on March 22 2023

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  • Birthday 08/20/1966

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  1. Would love to know what happened to it? Short of knowing, I’m with TankBuster, tape off the grey, lightly wet sand the tan, then respray.
  2. Those screens are looking, pretty smart!
  3. Now I’m really interested in seeing how this looks after painting!
  4. How do you do it? That whole brand new nose section is painted and black and It looks absolutely perfect!
  5. Cool backstory and how great to find the aftermarket to make it come together. Perfect omen for starters
  6. …hey, i heard biggtim wants one REAL BAD and no ebay fees!
  7. …and not to this level some cool interior work going on here!
  8. Not sure what the issue with gloss is? Plus, you can spray any mix of clear from flat to gloss and in between. Since it’s clear you never ever see it later, plus it’s all covered by your top coat. Totally invisible insurance policy to make sure you’re never doing touch ups. Everyone does it differently.
  9. More like an emergency brake. If anything else escapes your notice, you have no problems because paint can’t get under or around the clear. If you paint alot of low viz camo probably little to worry about but when you spray colors an insurance plan saves lots of wasted time later for little to no effort up front.
  10. I only spray the edges of the mask as i apply them for the reasons listed above And i spray whatever clear i have handy since it will be covered either by color coat or whatever the final clear coat is. in general i don’t clear anything before masking. My usual order of operations is: primer, color coats, then mask up and paint the lettering or stars & bars type insignia, then wet sand gently to take down any paint edges that built up around masking, then gloss clear, decals, and final clear coat.
  11. No worries, happy to share 2 reasons, it seals the edge so even if the edge of the tape isn’t down solid no paint will seep under the edge and mess up what’s already done, and then on the edges between colors that have already been applied you won’t get a fine line of color that seeps between 2 pieces of masking that are butted up against each other. for instance, on the starts and bars when you cover the white and the red with the mask there is a joint between the two. Blue paint can wick between the masks and end up messing up the two colors already sprayed.
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