To recoat heavily or polish?

[addicted2modeling]

I did about 2 more heavy coats of my victory red paint from duplicolor. Before that, it was primed twice, then followed by 3 light mist coats. Now I did two heavy wetcoats, unfortunately within 20 minutes apart from each other which, I feel was a mistake but some parts were kinda pinkish despite the heavy application maybe it wasn't applied properly lol but anyway it come out nice and smooth but some parts of the paint have some shine while the majority were flat, but nonetheless, it has that red pigment I was expecting. Should I reapply another wet coat or just let it cure and polish it? Remember, I am gonna apply a clearcoat after I paint the lower end in pewter metallic.,

[Chuck Most]

Still looks like humidity is what's causing the problem. I don't know if polishing would help, but I'd imagine if it did it wouldn't be much of an improvement.

[addicted2modeling]

how could you tell it's humidity? Today was sunny in upper 80s.

[Chuck Most]

I've sprayed on days when it's too humid, and the paint always ends up like that. Doesn't matter what the temperature is or if it's sunny- it can still be humid, especially if it has rained recently or rain is in the forecast a couple days in the future.

Like I said... I'm not 100% sure if humidity is the culprit here, but I'm leaning toward excessive humidity being the problem judging by how the paint came out.

[addicted2modeling]

man, it's just been frustrating to paint this part of the truck. All week its been raining like nonstop. I could have paint it in the garage, but its a high possibility that the spray mists might land somewhere inside the garage, despite having a big box to contain the paint. Also, the fumes can be a hazard and hard to vent off. If I open the garage door, the humidity might come in. I tried to polish it but revealed some orange peel. Oh man I am soo upset. I wish there's something I can do to fix it. I been painting this since Monday.

[addicted2modeling]

I've sprayed on days when it's too humid, and the paint always ends up like that. Doesn't matter what the temperature is or if it's sunny- it can still be humid, especially if it has rained recently or rain is in the forecast a couple days in the future.

Like I said... I'm not 100% sure if humidity is the culprit here, but I'm leaning toward excessive humidity being the problem judging by how the paint came out.

Should I sand the body down till its dull and redo a heavy coat twice? If so, what grit of sandpaper is recommended for that?

[slusher]

I would sand it down and reshoot it but not heavy coats. Make sure your paint is well shook up. Wait until its not raining to paint...

[Ramfins59]

Humidity can cause your paint to "blush" or come out looking like a flat, dull finish rather than nice and glossy. I've had this happen to me several times. The last time it happened I sprayed a gloss clearcoat over the dulled paint and it worked just fine. There was no color difference. To be on the safe side though, I'd wait until it's not raining and is a dryer day to spray on a clearcoat.

[addicted2modeling]

nevermind, problem solved. I used the Turtle brand headlight restoring kit that came with 3 pieces of fine sanding grit discs and it made my truck look shiny as a new plastic spoon. It removed the orange peel!

[kilrathy10]

Dude.....Future floor polish knocks it out of the park......Here in Houston, the humidity does this to Duplicolor ALL the time.....Use Future and it will do you proud....Just brush it on......It's awesome.....I'd be glad to demonstrate it.....I just live up the road from you.....PM me and maybe we can talk about it.....