if i remember right, there was a wiki somewhere with the basic rundown on these methods.

anyways i finished my test piece, my hood using rustoleum stop rust gloss black. i regret not sanding using a block because i can see some rippling and wavyness (not noticable in the pics) but am pretty suprised with the paint and the gloss (and i rushed it, i stopped sanding at 1500 and said the hell with it ill try to polish).

ive never done any polishing so it was kinda an expiriement. i also used some 20 dollar buffer that i saw at schucks.


sorry there was dust on the lense...




next time i am going to lay teh coats heavir also. i think i must have done 10 coats or more, but i had the paint thinned to about 30%, then realized it was way too thin to be putting on. i think when i was sanding i sanded through to the original faded black paint, cause i can see weird little spots when i look close, what looks like water spots but its in the paint...