deskthority

quantalume wrote:

mbodrov wrote:I think the Satin Fossil color is an exceptionally tasteful choice. Can you perhaps post a link to the exact paint that you used?

http://www.rustoleum.com/product-catalo ... r-2x/satin

If you click on the color square on the end of the second-to-last row, it will bring up the product number, 249080. It's available in North America and the UK, but I'm not sure about elsewhere. This particular formulation sprays very uniformly out of the can. That's more than I can say about a lot of Rustoleum's products. I've been trying for a couple of weeks now to get a decent final coat out of a particular metallic product of theirs.

How do you get this kind of surface structure out of spray paint? You did sand it flat first, right?

Icarium wrote: How do you get this kind of surface structure out of spray paint? You did sand it flat first, right?

Good question! I was a little surprised myself. I thought perhaps I didn't sand it as well as I thought, so I inspected the areas which were originally damaged and which were sanded extensively. Same appearance. Granted, all matte/satin paint will leave surface irregularities at some level, but not usually this macroscopic. I did originally paint it a metallic color, which I decided I didn't like. Possibly there was some strange reaction between the paint formulations.

Great, now how am I to reproduce that. X)