[landarts]

After letting the fenders cook in the sun for about 48 hours on the side of the garage, I pulled them to the inside of the garage to address the extremely small nats that got captured in the paint.

I approached the nats in the paint the same way I would address a run in the paint. I use a straight razor blade that has both corner edges sanded to a round corner so that it does not catch an edge. Also I sand the blade with a 2000 grit piece of wet n dry paper on a plate glass to get a little bit of a hook effect to the edge of the blade. Then I proceed to go over the nats that are in the paint with a 45 degree scrapping motion. A few passes and that usually knocks it down to a flat surface. After that I go over each area and color it up with a graphite pencil to get it ready for wet sanding with 1500, 2000 and then 3M Trizact 3000 grit foam pad. Last step will be to go over the fender with a few different different grits of compounds and polishes to bring the shine back up on the single stage paint.

Pictures show after I have already gone over the fenders with the blade and then a once over on each areas with a graphite pencil to mark the locations for wet sanding.

Next up today will be doing some of the wet sanding and getting the other sheet metal (radiator core support, inner fenders, hood/grill post, and other smalls) ready for satin black.