Got the pink layer done yesterday afternoon. Had to change out the exhaust fan filter first.
The state of the filter above also shows why PPE is important when painting in a booth, with any sort of sprayed paint -- but especially spray guns.
All dressed up and ready for the paint booth. Or maybe the grocery store... And before somebody comments, all the PPE was purchased long ago, before corona virus was a thing. In fact, its time to change the filters on my respirator, but that will have to wait. Luckily they are still doing fine with respect to paint.
It's pink!!!
So, a couple notes on the colors. First, the auto white balance on my phone screws with the colors, probably due to the LED floods and panels that provide the light in my garage. At some point, I'll see if I can get a better color rendition. Second, the pink darkens significantly as it dries. It is not nearly as bubblegum pink as it looks above.
This is immediately after removing the stencil. Paint is still pretty wet.
I did two coats of pink. I did all three sides with a first coat, then came back and did a second light coat. I didn't wait between coats, other than the time it took me to do the entire cabinet before coming back to the starting side for the second coat. In light coats, the paint seems well set by the time I made it back to that the second coat. The pink covered well and I didn't find any places where the yellow of blue showed through.
I removed the stencils as soon as I finished painting. Again, starting with the first side I painted, so the paint had maybe 15 minutes of set time. Even so, I got some pretty sharp edges on the paint layer and some places where I had very thin bits of paint standing up at the edge (hard to explain). I went over all the edges with a damp Q-tip and everything smoothed up nicely. Once the paint is set, it's actually pretty easy to work with. The damp Q-tip, with light pressure, would knock down sharp edges, but wouldn't really do much to the surface unless overly wet, or too much pressure. With a bit of practice, the Q-tip would just ride the pink edge, making it relatively easy to do.
I have to wait until at least tomorrow evening to do the black. I'm actually thinking that I'm going to cut the black stencils into sections, rather than try to apply the whole side at once and get everything to align. The black alignment is the most critical and I'm afraid, even with the alignment marks, that it will be impossible to get the sides to align well as a single sheet.