hood painting part II - (photos!)

[tim eh?]

white smokey haze in a clear coat is moisture and/or trapped volatiles, especially from painting in too cold of environment. you can use a faster reducer (cheap clean up stuff) but if its real cold you get the results you get. It may clear up after time.

it has been too cold... i think i must have painted too soon after washing the sanded clearcoat... that stuff was really gross btw, sometimes gooey sometimes sticky and it had pieces of crud in it. sucks it's all over the car except the front fenders.

here are some more progress pics... i still have the front edge to do properly (gee can you see the spot?) i think i have just enough paint - it should be easy now so long as we get a couple of warm days in a row. the rest is finished for this year anyway, i think i can shine it some more in the sun maybe... it's a pretty good match actually and the cloudy spots aren't so bad. a coat of road salt ought to hide it well enough... even now it looks better than it looked when i got it.