by "Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
Published 05/01/2017 at 18:25
by "Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
Published 05/01/2017 at 18:25
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Woke up this morning and for no good reason the paint looks way closer to the right color than it did before. I don’t get it. Still, I went to the paint store and showed the guy my car and he spent about 15 minutes mixing and making paint chips and holding them up to the paint and viewing it from all angles before settling on a mixture he said should much better match my hood. I’m going to continue wetsanding and polishing the paint that’s on there to hone my technique but the half-assed 15 minute wetsand job that’s on there right now isn’t half bad in my eyes considering I’ve never done anything like this before.
Here in two weeks it’s all getting stripped back again and re-done because I botched the filler in the holes where the badge was. Oh, well. Learning experience! Always down to learn new stuff. You can see in that last picture the fuzzy looking areas where I didn’t wetsand. Need to go back over it and spend a bit more time with the 1500 to make sure I get it level this time before moving on to 2500.
"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
05/01/2017 at 18:54, STARS: 1
i enjoy learbing too, I’m pretty ok with doing somethibg twice if I learned something
"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee)
05/01/2017 at 20:40, STARS: 0
Are you typing with a cold?
"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes)
05/01/2017 at 20:58, STARS: 2
make things easy on yourself and use 2000 between the 1500 and 2500. Also keep in mind its a metallic and a translucent one at that your sanding prep needs to be good or the metal flake can do wierd things with sand scratches and make it look crap.
"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
05/01/2017 at 21:59, STARS: 1
i have fat... MANLY thumbs and typing on mobile is often poor
"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee)
05/01/2017 at 22:21, STARS: 0
Pictured: MonkeePuzzles hands
"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
05/01/2017 at 23:04, STARS: 1
tghis feeeld acvurate
"Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious" (shour)
05/02/2017 at 01:38, STARS: 1
The unique thing about that Titanium Mica that distinguishes it from a regular metallic dark grey (which, at first glance, it what it looks like) is there’s a subtle purple in there. I noticed it the first time I parked mine next to another car (not an SE Miata, it was a Bimmer, I think) that was also metallic dark grey...and suddenly that subtle purple just POPPED at me.
And I instantly see it from the hood and fenders versus your bumper. Like, I can’t UNsee it, since first noticing it years ago. Such a unique way of making the colour distinct when you think it to be a “hiding” colour.
"SantaRita" (SantaRita)
05/05/2017 at 09:50, STARS: 0
you can get a rattle or pint can of factory color on ebay & maybe top coat with that. i think its 30$ for a rattle can, pricey but less guesswork/redoing. Did your filler shrink at the badge holes leaving a divet? I really cant tell in these pix.
The hardware store sells something called Oatey ABS cement which dries to a a similar hard abs plastic as the bumper. I’ve used it on bumper scratches, etc where i expected some flex and didn’t think bondo filler would stay there.
"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
05/05/2017 at 11:19, STARS: 0
Eh, any rattle can I get on ebay is likely to be the same thing I bought locally, some paint supplier mixed up some cans to the specs Mazda publishes for the paint.
The filler wasn’t really meant for filling holes, it was for filling gouges and such. I filled the holes and it looked fine until I applied pressure over it when wiping it down and it pushed the filler through the holes a little bit.