Finished with painting. The blue Duplicolor came out nice and smooth, but the red has some areas that are very finely rough to touch. Just finished an hour ago, so perhaps that will change over the next few hours (I didn't pay attention for roughness with the blue). Perhaps the rougher spots weren't as heavy? Too heavy? I know that others have experienced the rough spots....I just found it odd that it wasn't either uniformly rough or uniformly smooth.
The red was actually kind of odd---little 'strings' would show up after each coat. They could be wiped away or plucked off easily without messing up the paint. This is only my second time spray painting anything, so maybe it's normal, but I thought it was odd. Saw it with two different cans of red, but not the blue. Also shook like a madman for over a minute between each coat. Perhaps this is the feature that somehow leads to the roughness?
If it stays rough when fully dry, I'll try and buff the shields before I clear coat to see if I can smooth it all out. I've seen that for a lot of folks here, even just adding the clear coat helps with the texture, so I'm looking forward to that! So close to some awesomeness---I'm psyched!
