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it will look like this until you wet sand and reapply the paint. dont worry. the more coats you lay and the better you wet sand the better it will come out. keep at it.



Agreed. Do a good wet sand to reduce the peaks to the valleys of that first layer. The trick at this point ( to save work later and to get a smoother, slicker and shinier final job ) is to get that leveled down as much as possible.

The paint will not magically fill in the low area and bring them up to match the high points in that initial layer of paint. So spend a little extra time now nailing that initial layer flat.

One benefit, even if you end up taking it almost back to the original subsurface is that when you repaint it it will go on even smoother and more level the 2nd time.

That first layer will serve as the bond to the subsurface and you won't see the repulsion that might occur on the first coating. The first layer of paint will act like a primer so that the recoating will have solid and unaffected adhesion to the entire surface with no repulsion occuring.

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