Agent Orange, or: The Paint Job from Hell
Done some painting over the weekend.
The first round of white metal fittings - filing them took lots of patience and time, but they turned out very well. Two coats of primer and two coats of Tamiya black.
I then went to painting the deck and the inner bulwarks. Applying two or three coats of primer worked like a charm. After the primer was dry, the proverbial poop started hitting the fan, however. My rattle can of orange-red (or Agent Orange, as I soon started to dub it), was very problematic. First of, the color hue was not exactly what I anticipated - too red. And the paint itself was horrible. I can only assume that they sold me an ancient can - and I swear on my grandmothers grave that I gave it a thorough shake - because what exited the can was a mixture of dry powder and messy, sluggish paint. Mostly it was just dry, orange powder
Unfortunately I didn't notice this right away and I ended up painting-powdering the whole deck with that horrible dust-can.
After the mess was dry, I could wipe most of the powder right off with a dry cloth. The sticky, sluggish parts of the paint, not so much.
The good news is, it took me all evening yesterday to remove this messy Agent Orange - sanding, wiping - both dry and with ethanol to get an acceptable surface again. I just realized I started this sentence with "the good news is". I have no idea, why I did that...
Anyway, she's now ready for another coat of fresh (in every sense of the word) and nicer hue of paint
The image below shows her in all her messy glory.
So much for buying paint in a speciality shop