Aston Martin DB3S: More paint learnings

Hobbies: A never ending source of frustration learning. Today I learned that:

 

1) Zero Paints 2 Pack Clearcoat System Diamond Finish can generate orange peel (surface roughness in the paint) if not put on correctly. 

 

2) Zero Paints 2 Pack Clearcoat System Diamond Finish is very, very hard once dry, and is difficult if not impossible to sand down to take off the orange peel. 

 

3) Zero Paints colour paint, if sprayed on top of Zero Paints 2 Pack Clearcoat System Diamond Finish, will dissolve said Zero Paints 2 Pack Clearcoat System Diamond Finish and lift it right off, even more effectively than a dunking in a bath of lacquer thinner.

 

4) Lacquer thinner will strip all of this right down to the resin in no time. I don't know if it damages resin; I hauled the body out quickly and give it a soaking in hot running water. 

 

 

So it's back to Square One! Gotta love this lifelong learning s#!t.