Re: 1975 Omega Restore, the project goes on.
HOLY CRAP!!!! We are done painting!!!!
4th coat went on this morning. We still have a decent amount of dust in the final coat, even after wetting the ground, blowing out the garage AGAIN.
For all the guys that want to know or care, we got the best results with perfection as follows:
1. Load up the sponge roller to about medium full, if its dripping off obviously too much. I say medium at first because we noticed the thing will suck up paint the first couple dips and cause a little too light of a coat. (This is with a HD roller)
2. Get as MUCH dust out of your painting area as possible, we feared if we tented it without proper ventilation A. we would die, and B. the humidity levels would skyrocket.
3. Lighting was key, see pics.
Tips we got from the interlux help line.
4. when rolling it on if your pressing down on the roller hard enough to leave a raised paint line you are pressing down too hard. For us this meant too little paint.
If your barely pressing down on the roller at all for us this meant too much paint and it caused runs.
5. we thinned out 10% on this coat, seemed to work best for us. Temp was 72 humidity was 76-78.
6. Wait 30-40 seconds before tipping, you will see the paint bubbles start to pop on their own and slightly level out. Then you tip it off.
7. When tipping off we found that if we did it like on the video it left awful brush marks. We got a Badger hair brush from west marine for 22 &#^#*(# dollers.
According to the help line, you are BARELY touching the paint and I mean barely. The brush marks left behind were very shallow and would level out in about 5 mins.
8. Don't drink a lot of coffee and NOT eat before you do this, Shakey hands are not good.
Here is our light stand we built. On dark colors its VERY hard to see any imperfections without a glare on the paint. We built two of these for around 30 bucks. Place them to the left or right of where your painting and tipping so you can look into the glare of the paint to see lines and roller marks.
Here is our final coat.
Sorry the pics are somewhat grainy because of the lights in the background, oops.
But we did have some stupid hairs fall into the paint, not sure what we will do about that yet. We had one spot where it looked like a dust bunny or a dust cow fell onto the boat from who knows where and that part looks awful.
You can already see the dust piling up on it. we know we have dust in the paint but we did EVERYTHING we could to minimize dust, we just have bad luck I guess. Overall we are happy enough to move on with the project.
We painted one of our used thinner cans with the perfection and placed it in a dusty area so it would collect dust, in a couple days we are going to test what kind of polishes or compounds remove the dust and not too much of the gloss. We shall see what happens.
I think the next time we do this we will................................... oh who am I kidding I never want to paint ANYTHING ever again.
Any truth telling close up shots to come? hehe 
