need help.. i ruined the paint!

[ZoomZoomMX-5]

Okay, there is nothing wrong with your paint at this point, it's merely orange peel and that's a normal/common thing when you spray over primer and haven't sanded the primer smooth. I would consider your color coat now at a "mid-coat" stage. I think it needs more wetsanding and one more application of color. Read on.

The above advice is good; you need to carefully wetsand the areas with the finest grit wetsanding paper you can get; start w/2000 and go to 1500 only if the 2000 doesn't knock down most of the orange peel. Be very, very careful not to sand through the paint. Go one surface at time. If you are worried about sanding through color on high spots, cut and place small pieces of masking tape over raised details so you literally can't sand through them.

Once you get the paint wetsanded smooth, I'd go back and apply more color. I always apply color in two steps for a variety of reasons, including paint depth and final gloss from polishing w/compound; since you reprimed you are at the "first" color step. It should come out much smoother the next time you spray (each subsequent step of sanding and reapplying paint should result in smoother coats). At that point you may be able to get away with polishing w/compound only, or do less of the wetsanding w/2000 than previous.

[ton394]

thnx all for the help! as of now i'll try all your tips and make some progress.