Sanding & paintng plastic

Rellizate · Post 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.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post 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

Rellizate · Post 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)?

Tibia · Post 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.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post 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)