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Tank painting.... DIY

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AshimotoK0:
Great stuff .. I love people who have a go. Andrew Parnaby who spayed my 750K0 paintwork and does John Wyatt's told me he started out using a cheopo gun and a lorry wheel as the air source.

Cheers .. AshD

Lobo:
Thanks gents...

Yea Mick - if I did it again I'd definitely better wet & dry out the orange peel.... thing is I read (here?) of someone complaining that his tank was taken back to too smooth a surface < clear coat..... which never then bonded properly. (my guess now is that it was perhaps polished < the clear coat)

My test piece 'suggested' a thick enough lacquer coat would hide the orange peel & so this is the way I went. It doesn't...  (3 coats). Another issue was my test piece being the side of an old fridge.... Ie very forgiving, and if the tank had been this smoothness & uniformity to start with the whole experience / result would likely have been approaching spot-on.

But good enough fun, I've made a £30 tank now cost me £100+ (multiple paints, decals, polisher), but it never was about that... rather the learning.

And Trig, the bloody day I bought this tank was the day I got a call the original tank is ready. Not been back to the UK since to collect... but looking forward to seeing a professional finish!

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