Just painted my car, now how do I make it even?

[mr_han_solo]

Hello,

Just finished shooting my car with some satin green paint. However, the paint looks really uneven. It's all good to the touch but you can clearly see where I started and stopped. My question is, how do I even all of this out? After my first coat I tried sanding with 600grit, but It ended up making the paint look bad. I was thinking of trying 1000 or 1500 grit, but I wanted to check in before I did that. I will be shooting the car with a flat clearcoat, so it that takes care of these problems I'll just do that instead of sanding. Hoping someone can give me some tips.

[hr369]

First of all a few questions. What kind of pant are you

using? What kind of paint gun and how big is your compressor? Is this your first paint job?

when you say "uneven" you mean you can see the primer under the paint still or you have smooth and

rough?

[mr_han_solo]

Used some left over primer I had from my Camaro. Evercoat durabuild. Not more than two years old. The color coat is an enamel. New paint. I sanded the original paint, then primed it. I wet sanded the primer with 400grit then applied the basecoat. Wet sanded the basecoat with 400 and then put on the second (current) coat.

What I mean by uneven is that if you look in the picture you can see where it looks thicker in some areas than others. However, when i run my fingers over it it's all the same.

[zanthus]

Is the paint a spray can? Or are you using a gun? Either way you can try to go over top of whats already there at a farther distance from your panel. If your using a spray gun Turn down the air pressure, usually around 10-15 lbs if your using a HVLP and go over it at a farther distance. It should take out some of the splotchyness.

[grannyknot]

It looks like you are using short quick movements with the paint gun, you want to use long,slow, even strokes that are parallel to the surface, no arching. Start your spray before you make a run and snap up your hand at the end of the run.

[Jay Gadsby]

^ this. But make sure at the end of the panel, you paint past the end before you twist the wrist, otherwise you will end up with "thinner" paint at the trailing edge of the panel.