Hiya folks! You guys have been a huge source of information for me as I've taken on some small projects over the last couple of years... and I'm sure you guys will know exactly what I'm doing wrong as soon as you see this. So I live in Alaska and paint in my garage. I try to keep the temp at about 70 while I'm working, and drop it down when I'm not. I keep all my paints and reducers in a portable tool box, and keep that inside at a constant 70ish degrees... learned the hard way last winter that cold paint is bad. I paint with an Eclipse HP-CS and a Badger Anthem, only Createx paints and reducers. So what we have here is a flask I was working on. I sanded it, degreased it, sprayed it with Duplicolor Adhesion Promoter, let it dry a bit, then built up layers of Wicked Pearl Gold. You can see in the one pic that it dries and has a bumpy texture. I've painted a couple flasks and cups and one ammo can, but I think this is the first time I've seen that texture build up. Then in the other pics... that's after I've done a couple light layers of Candy 2.O red on top. The bumpy texture is still visible, obviously... but now there are a few larger "fiber" looking things in some spots. I've notice this before other times I've painted with those Candies too. With those, I do about 20% 4030 and maybe a little reducer... to be honest I haven't developed a solid formula for that yet. So any insight would be awesome! Am I just making a simple mistake and I should know better by now?
Thanks!
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