Well I started over..again. I pretty much ruined the paint job after burning the edges. Doing so made me REALLY understand the concept of wetsanding and leveling the surface and what marc was trying to explain.

Before I started to paint, I prepped the surface by sanding most of the hood with 220g. The edge still had clearcoat on it. I painted over it. big mistake.

the clear coat served as a layer so it looked a little something like this.(side ways view)



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xxxxx - rustoleum paint
----- - clear coat
===== - hood\factory paint

So after I sanded down the rustoleum a bit, the clear coat started to show.

So I sanded that clear coat down.

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This is how the hood looked like when i first painted it.

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no clear coat (im not to worried about original paint acting as another layer. waaay too thin

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First coat. thin thin thin (still kinda wet\dry)

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look who came to pay a visit, mr.green fangs
(good thing he didnt get stuck in the wetpaint)

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