RyanR0101

When I bought my lifetime subscription, one of the things that was supposed to be included was access to all digital back issues, which to 2012 were supposedly going to be easy to do. But nothing has materialized as far as I can tell, nor has the lifetime subscription patch, t shirt, or dash plaque turned up.,

I've heard Metal Glaze is the putty to use. My question is how hard is it supposed to get? I bought a brand new (verified by date code) container, mixed some, and I can scratch it with my fingernail. Is this the way this stuff is supposed to be, or is it supposed to be rock hard? I've tried less catalyst and more, with the same result.

Did I miss something? I didn't see anything about how you laid the paint down.

Thanks Art. I started experimentation on Tuesday night, painting 4 light coats on a body about 5 min apart. The car isn't even covered at this point. Put that in the dehydrator, and as of this morning, it's still soft. I will have to get a thermometer in there to see what the actual temp is. It's a one setting job with a vent you can open at the top to cool it. How do you lay the paint down initially, as far as # of coats, heaviness of coats, and any time between coats?

To those of you who have used Scalefinishes paint on a regular basis with success, can you share your application methods? I've painted a few cars now, with the gloss enamels, and it seems that I always end up with paint that never dries. I even painted one car that a year later still had that sticky feeling. Not wet, but just that feeling that it wasn't dry, where it seems to want to stick to the table when you set it down, and where the polishing cloth/sandpaper seems to be digging in and dragging. I can take a fingernail and make an impression like nothing, and have to be very careful not to get any particulate matter between the polishing cloths and the paint when polishing. This is among the best paints ever for what it looks like out of the paint booth, save for this issue. Heat/food dehydrator treatment does not help (I had the one year car up in my attic all summer!) I have followed the application guide on their website, as well as tried laying down the paint more or less using the "Donn Yost method" all at once, with the same results. I have a feeling maybe I need to do lighter coats and more time in between coats, but how much time? I've painted with lacquers, and they seem to dry rock hard no matter what, but they don't give me the out of the booth gloss SF does. Even Testors enamels have given me success and have not been fussy, and I have not run into this problem with them either. I'm in experimentation mode now, having ordered some paint just to screw around with, but if anyone can get me to the answer faster than flying solo, I would appreciate it. Thanks.