Paint question

Found runs so bad the only thing to do is start over on that part. It's single stage urathane. How long should I wait to fog this back in? Would I be better off reshooting the whole bottom of the fender? If I fog it in do I reverse mask so there won't be a line, or just mask from the body line up? Sorry far all the questions, this is my first paint job. I shot this at 200pm yesterday.

 

Id say save yourself the headache and just repaint the whole fender.
Its not easy to blend single stage urathane.

 

You don't have to start a new thread every time you paint a different part of your truck

 

probably the easiest way and going to have the best results.

 

Yes, and later it will fade down and look worse. Buffing will not help the blend. Add more light to your paint room. When you lay down a coat, totally focus on over lap at 50%. Your tack coat is important too.

 

If the runs are set up enough and not so soft your going to be tearing off paint, you can sand to break the surface, and roll the vehicle out into the sun will help solvents escape and things cure up. Normally you can sand on a urethane the next day without much trouble, but if you got some good sized hangers, those are going to stay soft awhile with all the material build.

Normally you can respray a urethane the next day too, but the longer you can wait, the better, and more like a week to be on the safe side. Last thing you want is a bunch of solvents still trapped in the paint, and then go dumping on more solvents when repainting, thats asking for trouble. If there is a lot of solvents still in the paint and they cant easily escape and the car is just sitting inside a garage, things can blow up on you when you repaint, and can fingerprint and stay on the soft side for awhile.
If you look in the tech sheets for the brand of urethane you have, they will often give recoat times and a lot of other useful information that you won't find printed on the can. You do read the tech sheets for the products your using, don't you?

I'd repaint the whole fender too. There won't be enough paint mils at the blend area, and thats inviting an early failure, and could be especially short lived in Texas, where you get a lot more sun then us.

 

Looks like Ill be painting the whole fender again when I shoot the cab. Thanks for the replys. frankie47, sorry, Im starving for attention

 

Blending is for the experienced, especially on a single stage paint. It's not too much more trouble to paint the entire fender, less taping too.