Spent part of the weekend on Artoo! I stripped the paint or primer, not sure what it was, off the outer half moon details I purchased off the junkyard. Still need to do the inner ones. One of these was banged up a little and some sanding took care of the majority of it. Also stripped the paint off the coin slots. The original paint job I did flaked too much when I was taking off the masking.
Painted the blue portion of Pocket Vents & Octagon Ports. I tried it a little differently this time after reading up about painting techniques on the forums. Only waited about 2 hours after the primer coat to lay down the rest instead of 24+. Then I removed the masking around 2-3 hours after the last clear coat was down. The masking came off easy on the Octagon Ports, the paint was only around 2 hours old. Waited a little longer on the Pocket Vents because I had to sand out some imperfections on the clear coat and hit them again. I noticed that the tape was about to pull the paint so I scored it with an Xacto and it came off quite easy.
I think the quicker process will solve a lot of my painting problems. I went back thorough all the blue I've painted and about half needs some sanding and touchup on the clear coat. The biggest hurdle will be getting the Booster Covers painted. Two tries already and neither was successful.
