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Lambent Darkness 7 · 08-26-08

Hi All,

I have some more work done to my project the weather afftects the quality of the job and it has to be under 60% humidity and preferably 80 degress or below for proper drying. Its comming along nicely and stuck a dehumidifier in my work area cause when I painted this morning the paint became all cloudy cause it was too humid.

Now it is time to get ready for primer; since I was serious about the way that I wanted it to look I used a self-etch primer first, it treats the metal with some corrosion resistance and chemically “etches” the metal like a metal conditioner. This is a important step for a professional long lasting job. Before I applied any paint or primer, I sprayed a test surface first.

I applied the self-etching primer allowed a 5 min flash time between coats and used two coats. Allowed all the primers I used to dry for 1 ½ hours, sanded the etch primer with 400 grit. I then used high-build primer-surfacer to fill in scratches and prepare for painting. After I applied the build primer and it was dry I sanded it with 400 grit to start with and finished it with 600 grit to make it a smooth shiny finish. I had to pay close attention to detail on the whole sanding part of the paint job, because the better I sanded it, the better it looked.

Masked the case to protect it from overspray. Preparing to primer the top part of it.

The primer im using (which is also called wash primer) which is black, is DuPont™ Variprime. The black will create great color holdout for the blue and the primer will give good durability/adhesion performance and make it the deep color which is in the test panel I did above in the first post.

I used on the inside of the case satin black coating which is semigloss on the inside. It is the almost the same used on bumpers like the Chevy Cavailer and Neon's black front and rear bumpers.

Close up view

Looking good haha! The finish came out nice an smooth.

If you were to touch and look at it in person its lustrous and smooth like satin. Awesome!

I like it . Now I have let it cure and then mask it all up to paint the outside of the case blue. Now for the drive trays.

Masked the sides that I did not want overspray on, no need to make more work for myself.

Coming out excellent I think. The dehumidifier really helps before the humidity was 80%!! Real bad for paint. The paint comes out perfect and dries to a awesome finsh.

Finished product. They look like they came that way from the factory.

That is for right now, more work to be done today. I'll post back later today when I get more work done. Been working on it since 5 am

Let me know what all of you think and please if you like it or have any suggestions subcribe to it and post

Thanks for viewing.