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You can work most of those lines out. Honestly if you are getting them, alot, it probably indicates you fumbled in your mixing.

If you take the time to put on more coats than you think you need, or have the patience to do, just about anything can be fixed in the final color sand and buffing stage.



I gotta agree. If lines are happening... then it is usually because too much paint is being applied per coating. The concept that people MUST get into their head when they do the roller method is to NOT EXPECT INSTANT COVERAGE.

The whole process requires a slow build up of THIN ( almost transparent ) layers of paint.

It is more like tinting the car at each coating rather than 'painting'. The thing is that each time you add another thin translucent layer, it doubles the shade of the 'tint'.

By the time you hit four or five layers the accumulation of these thin translucent layers then begins to add up and become 'coverage'. In some cases you may not hit that coverage stage for 6 to 8 layers of thin coatings depending on the color you are using.

I think this is the most important concept people have to understand and appreciate during their painting process.

The Brightside paint will reduce the number of coatings you need to reach this 'coverage' stage, but that is because their paint has more 'solid' pigments in the paint then say the Tremclad/Rustoleum. But even with Brightside you need to go through the accumulation of tinted layers to get the best possible result.

So don't be in a rush. Don't expect to paint the car like you would a wall in your house ( where routinely you would nail a wall in one or two coats ).

The thinner the layer that you lay down each coating is what you must strive for when rolling. It may take longer to complete the paint job... but the results will be superior and possible problems will be far less by doing the slow buildup of thin layers.

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