- November 2nd, 2017, 10:35 pm#4900543
So yesterday, November 1st, the weather was indeed above 40° when I got out of work at 3pm. It was also raining, but I cheeked the humidity and it was only 70%. Krylon's website said anything under 85% is ok. The balcony is covered.
So I made a bucket of hot tap water and threw in a can of metallic silver and satin black. While they were hot tubbing it up I prepped all the parts that needed touching up or were just forgot the last time. I put 2x4s on the bathroom floor like before.
Grabbed the Alice frame and roughed up the vertical bar I replaced to give the paint something to "bite".
Took the metallic silver out of the bucket, dried it off, and took the shell outside and got 2 coats on. This awesome paint goes on well and says it only needs a minute between coats. Came inside and put the shell on the 2x4s in the bathroom. That was it for silver.
Since I was racing temps of the weather, spray can, and painting surfaces, I didn't get many in process pics. But here is everything I painted. Most things only needed certain spots touched up. The booster frame and ppd were the first to get sprayed a full coat then brought inside and hung up on the shower curtain rail. The thrower got a whole extra coat next. It lost quite a bit of paint from me putting the barrel back in while it was still tacky. Then all the other hung up parts got spot treated followed by the stuff on the board. Painted up the Alice vertical bar and motherboard. In the bathroom they went. Lastly the booster frame and ppd got a second coat of black.
I don't know if it was humidity, lower temps, tiny droplets, or rouge bed liner grains, but there's a uniform speckling on all smooth surfaces on all parts. Silver and black. It's pretty sparse and they are very tiny, so I'm not really stressing over it to much.
The cyclotron rings really lucked out somehow. Only the top left has a few speckles.
The black paint doesn't show it as much. It's there, but you have to have it in just the right light and angle. The thrower was most evident with the largest flat surfaces so far that are black. The other parts its hard to see. I'll have to look at them in the sunlight, but I think I'm over scrutinizing. It seems the silver reveals it prominently with it being shiny while the black hides it. These shots are from the next day btw.
I totally see how people say a pack is never really finished. There's always something I think could be a little bit better. Already considering stripping the paint and redoing it in the spring taking my time with better weather. We'll see how I feel when its all together, finished and weathered.
Something I find helps to control paint smell when things are curing indoors is a towel on the bottom of the door. It still smells for a few hours, but maybe a sixth of how it would without the towel.
So now I wait a week and then hope its warm enough to get a few coats of satin black on the shell. Along with guts in, greebles on, and dry rubs placed on the thrower. Also will get the motherboard mounted to the Alice frame and install speakers, switches, and battery. Then wait another week for the shell to cure and I can... dun dun dun... do final assembly and apply stickers and weathering. Ahhhhhhhh!
I'm freaking out. Ok bye.
So I made a bucket of hot tap water and threw in a can of metallic silver and satin black. While they were hot tubbing it up I prepped all the parts that needed touching up or were just forgot the last time. I put 2x4s on the bathroom floor like before.
Grabbed the Alice frame and roughed up the vertical bar I replaced to give the paint something to "bite".
Took the metallic silver out of the bucket, dried it off, and took the shell outside and got 2 coats on. This awesome paint goes on well and says it only needs a minute between coats. Came inside and put the shell on the 2x4s in the bathroom. That was it for silver.
Since I was racing temps of the weather, spray can, and painting surfaces, I didn't get many in process pics. But here is everything I painted. Most things only needed certain spots touched up. The booster frame and ppd were the first to get sprayed a full coat then brought inside and hung up on the shower curtain rail. The thrower got a whole extra coat next. It lost quite a bit of paint from me putting the barrel back in while it was still tacky. Then all the other hung up parts got spot treated followed by the stuff on the board. Painted up the Alice vertical bar and motherboard. In the bathroom they went. Lastly the booster frame and ppd got a second coat of black.
I don't know if it was humidity, lower temps, tiny droplets, or rouge bed liner grains, but there's a uniform speckling on all smooth surfaces on all parts. Silver and black. It's pretty sparse and they are very tiny, so I'm not really stressing over it to much.
The cyclotron rings really lucked out somehow. Only the top left has a few speckles.
The black paint doesn't show it as much. It's there, but you have to have it in just the right light and angle. The thrower was most evident with the largest flat surfaces so far that are black. The other parts its hard to see. I'll have to look at them in the sunlight, but I think I'm over scrutinizing. It seems the silver reveals it prominently with it being shiny while the black hides it. These shots are from the next day btw.
I totally see how people say a pack is never really finished. There's always something I think could be a little bit better. Already considering stripping the paint and redoing it in the spring taking my time with better weather. We'll see how I feel when its all together, finished and weathered.
Something I find helps to control paint smell when things are curing indoors is a towel on the bottom of the door. It still smells for a few hours, but maybe a sixth of how it would without the towel.
So now I wait a week and then hope its warm enough to get a few coats of satin black on the shell. Along with guts in, greebles on, and dry rubs placed on the thrower. Also will get the motherboard mounted to the Alice frame and install speakers, switches, and battery. Then wait another week for the shell to cure and I can... dun dun dun... do final assembly and apply stickers and weathering. Ahhhhhhhh!
I'm freaking out. Ok bye.
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"Let's just not get bogged down in print tolerances, as spending six years cutting a perfect pack is all blown away once the thickness of the PAINT is introduced! hahaha" - johnnyace_pi
0.125" Styrene Proton Pack Scatch Build Thread
Rothco to Nomex Uniform Upgrade Thread