hello, this is my first post on this board and I'll apologize for the length...I'm just casually getting back into modeling after 30+ years off! I've realized I will never have the time, money, space or skills to restore real cars so this is a great substitute!
My issue is the hood on the 53 Revell Corvette I'm building. (I built a 53 Vette back when I was about 12 and it is terrible..never painted, glue everywhere, you guys know what I'm talking about..but I've kept it all these years and always wanted to build another one and do it right, to make up for my bad one).
The body on the car has painted fine...a few fish eyes, but I can live with them. The problem is the hood has fish eyes all over it...even after I've sanded to remove the paint, cleaned it properly and repainted. It looked like the surface of the moon!
I'm using Tamiya gray primer, followed by Tamiya white primer and then Tamiya Racing White as a top coat.
(interior is Tamiya bright red, floor pan is Testors flat black enamel and frame is Testors gloss black enamel)
I initially washed the hood in dish detergent, sanded with 400 grit wet/dry, washed again, rinsed with DI water, dried, wore gloves and primed with gray, then white, then color coat (with plenty of time between coats). The fish eyes were bad so I lightly sanded it down, re washed, rinsed, dried and wiped with 70% isopropyl. Painted again and the fish eyes were even worse!
So I sanded it down to bare styrene with 400 grit..scrubbed with a toothbrush and Bon Ami (didn't have comet), washed in detergent, rinsed with Di water, dried and wiped with 70% isopropyl all while wearing gloves. Painted my first coat of Tamiya gray primer and there were fish eyes in the primer! They show up in the (hopefully) attached picture as faint white spots mostly in the upper right quarter of the hood.
I'm at a loss as to what to do next to get it painted without fish eyes! I'm afraid if I paint over the primer the faint white spots will just be bad fish eyes, again.
I've also included a cell phone pic of the body and the 36 yr old 53 Vette behind it!
thanks, guys