Yes it is nice to be able to put your projects INSIDE something isn't it? You know, to hold everything together so it doesn't flop around? Discuss the techniques here!
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Sanding & paintng plastic
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by Rellizate » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:12 pm
Hey!
I painted some plastic a little while back, but then after a lot of coats of primer and the colour it still came off really easily. So I thought this was probably because I hadn't sanded the plastic originally so the paint couldn't grip. So I was wondering what grades to use to get it to stick but not be too rough.
Thanks.
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by Turbo Tax 1.0 » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:54 pm
I use 220 and wet sand with 400 in between coats of primer and paint
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by Rellizate » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:29 pm
So sand with 220 until smooth all over. Then primer, sand, paint, sand, paint (with my layers of both obviously)?
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by Tibia » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:33 pm
I've gotten extremely good results with Krylon Fusion spray paint. I've never had to pre-sand with it either. Be warned, though, it works best on ABS-type hard plastic.
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by Turbo Tax 1.0 » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:35 pm
just sand in between coats of paint if you wait for it to dry, you can just do a coat of paint, wait about 30minnutes then do another light coat and give it a light sand before you put clear coat on it (if you do want clear coat)
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