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Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 10/13/2011, 4:33 pm
In Response To: Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project (StephenHJ)

: Suggestion: Play with coat thickness before hand. You may be able
: to obtain a better, more even finish with a slightly heavier
: coat, rather than building up very thin coats. The issue is that
: with the MF, it needs a certain flow to pass through the
: sprayer. Also, if you try to do to many thin coats, the MF
: doesn't have a direction to "lay". If you've ever seen
: a metallic finish on a car where one panel just didn't match the
: rest, even though the color was correct, it's because the panel
: wasn't sprayed in the same direction... With MF you usually
: always want to spray the same direction, not back and forth and
: across.

: You can get an even coat going a little thicker, it just takes a
: little practice. The important factors are keeping the gun
: moving at the same speed, the same distance from the surface,
: with the same flow rate, and not overlapping the strokes to
: much.

: Take a sample piece of ply, primer it well, and use it as a test
: piece. Use different colors to see how even the coats are going
: on, etc.

: And have fun - starting out it can be a little frustrating, but
: practice until you are comfortable, and the results can be
: spectacular!

: StepehnHJ

Really. You don't want to learn how to spray where it matters :)

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

S&G: Night Heron Art Project
Robert N Pruden -- 10/11/2011, 1:18 pm
Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project *PIC*
Robert N Pruden -- 10/11/2011, 1:19 pm
Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project *PIC*
Robert N Pruden -- 10/11/2011, 1:21 pm
Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project *PIC*
Robert N Pruden -- 10/11/2011, 1:22 pm
Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project *PIC*
Robert N Pruden -- 10/11/2011, 1:24 pm
Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project *PIC*
Robert N Pruden -- 10/11/2011, 1:26 pm
Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project *PIC*
Robert N Pruden -- 10/11/2011, 1:29 pm
Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project *NM*
Kevin McAtee -- 10/11/2011, 4:08 pm
Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project
Kevin McAtee -- 10/11/2011, 4:16 pm
Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project
Robert N Pruden -- 10/11/2011, 5:23 pm
Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project
Bill Hamm -- 10/12/2011, 1:56 am
Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project
Robert N Pruden -- 10/13/2011, 10:35 am
Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project
StephenHJ -- 10/13/2011, 1:06 pm
Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project
Bill Hamm -- 10/13/2011, 4:33 pm
Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project
Robert N Pruden -- 10/17/2011, 5:03 pm
The metallic maple leaf is done... *PIC*
Robert N Pruden -- 10/12/2011, 9:27 am
Re: The metallic maple leaf is done... *PIC*
Robert N Pruden -- 10/12/2011, 9:28 am
Closeup photo of metallic surface sans clearcoat *PIC*
Robert N Pruden -- 10/12/2011, 12:24 pm
Re: Closeup photo of metallic surface sans clearco
Glen Smith -- 10/12/2011, 12:56 pm
Re: Closeup photo of metallic surface sans clearco
Robert N Pruden -- 10/12/2011, 1:52 pm
Re: S&G: Night Heron Art Project *PIC*
Robert N Pruden -- 10/13/2011, 10:26 am
Closeup image of ghost maple leaf *PIC*
Robert N Pruden -- 10/13/2011, 10:28 am
Re: Closeup image of ghost maple leaf
ancient kayaker -- 10/13/2011, 7:22 pm
Re: Closeup image of ghost maple leaf
Robert N Pruden -- 10/17/2011, 5:04 pm