REFLECTOR: painting fuselage

[NMFlyer1 at aol.com]

Brian, 

This is more of a problem with regular spray guns than it is with HVLP guns. 
The problem is spray "bounce" where some of the paint ricochets off of the 
surface into the air. This is evident by the big old cloud when you paint. That 
paint, floating in free air dries pretty quickly.  When that "dust settles back 
onto your wet paint, it mucks up the surface by making it somewhat grainy and 
that dulls up the finish. 

Having a big vacuum, or air flow will carry a lot of that "dust" away and you 
will end up with a better finish. 

Of course, you can always color sand the work when you are done, and then 
stage buff it back out. I have painted a couple cars in the garage or outdoors 
that turned out OK.  After color sanding.. they were really nice.  You can 
always use a good air flow AND color sand it... then it will have that really shiny 
and wet look to the paint. 

Kurt 
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