hotrod flatz recoat issues

so I painted my mod with hot rod flatz and the first go around turned out real nice. But I had a thin spot on the pass side. So I went to do a fill spray abd ran the whole damn side. I sanded out the run and sprayed one more coat. It went on nice again but when I looked at it this morning the shine isn't the same from side to side and I'm kinda lost

 

did you mix it real well?
to me it kinda sounds like it wasnt mixed properly.

 

I had the same problem on my buick that I painted with it. One of the fenders always looked dull compared to the rest of the car. It took wetsanding and reshooting it 3 times to get it close and it still wasnt exactly the same as the rest of the car

 

Isn't painting fun? It took me about a half dozen paint jobs to finally nail one without a mojor catastrophe. There are so many things that can go wrong, I'd usually find one or another. One of them would be making sure the paint was well stirred every batch because the flattner will settle to the bottom of the can. Painted the car in batches, each batch would get shinier than the last. By the time we assembled the car, you could tell which panels were painted first. Scuff and reshoot needed to be done to even it out. Also, next time I shoot satin - satin will be the last paint I shoot on a job. Masking tape will burnish the paint too. Did I mention I hate satin or flat paint jobs?

 

I have heard that it is difficult to match the hot rod flatz....
but I havent used it yet so I cant say from experience.

 

the only thing I did difrent is I let the full can set upside down for an hour be for mixing. I'm thinking I might pick up a quart of omni clear and see if it melts together and have a nice shiney model A. But that might not work either

 

we painted my dads 58 ford last september, and it looked great, had like a semi gloss to it. I think it flattens out over time though, also i would suggest using a flat clear because the paint is getting pretty thin where you arm sits on the top of the door.

 

i have heard many of time that you cant match HRF colors after its been shot

 

I just finished a car that had a couple of runs. So i scuffed it and re shot it and got the shine instead of flat. The mix was the same and the temp was within 2* I was told you can't spot paint with this stuff and i need to paint the whole upper door and not lay it on to wet. Look around the door handle in the pic.

 

If you use there urethane satin clear coat it helps blend all the shine from panel to panel. I have used hot rod flatz quite a bit and noticed too that it depends a lot of the level of primer from surface to surface

 

Did you spray it the EXACT same way you did the first time? Overlap, distance, amount of coats?

 

Now I don't feel so bad. I'm also shooting a satin (black), and am on my fourth attempt. I had it perfect today, except for a dry rooftop. Shot it again, now its flat! Painting sucks.

 

well I just cleared it with regular clear and had some peel and a run twards the bottum of both sides but it looks like the color evend out so this winter shell get a cut n buff and it will be all good.