Augh!

I emptied almost an entire large can of duplicolor paint onto a 1/24 body, waited a week, and started sanding and polishing yesterday. Well my first attempt at NOT USING clear coat sucked. I sanded right through on a spot that must've been thin. The bare spot is on the primer right now, its not too big, probably 1 cm by 2mm, but i was wondering if i could fix this without spraying a new layer of paint on. Could I maybe just decant a small amount, put a couple thin layers on with a brush, then sand down flush and polish out? Anyone use this technique? Would it be really hard to do well?


I think finishing up with clear coat is worth it with the duplicolor paint. You need to polish and sand a lot to get all that damn orange peel out with this paint.

Lacquers don't really brush on too well, but spraying usually will leave a visible indention where the paint came off. I suppose if the spot is small, then you can spray some lacquer on a paper card to get it running and then brush it on the spot very gently. I've run into the same problems when using duplicolor, especially on cars with hard lines on the body. I guess I should start clearcoating too.

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I know this might sound like a lazy answer, but that's the reason why I always clear coat. I've tried not clearcoating and got "exposed" edges as results. :mad:

Maybe to fix your problem, you could mask the area around the flaw. But around the edges of the target area lift the tapes a bit so some overspray can get through. That way when you spray you will get soft parting line between the new and old layers. Just dont put too much paint. Spraying wet clearcoat after that might flatten things out.

One can is way to much paimt for just one model :eek:
Why are you having to sand the model....orange peel??

If you want a really good job you need to spray the whole car again