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I had taken 5 frames out to be painted black. I had gotten all of them done and dried, trucks installed and motor's about to be put back in. Thats when I noticed the paint was a can of black textured paint for plastic.
1. The textured part makes the fuel tanks look like ass. Im thinking maybe I can sand it.
2. Will it matter if the paint was put on metal?
3. Should I just strip it all off and start over?
There is a possibility that you can polish away the texture and leave the paint, if you want to try realize you may remove enough that you'll actually be down to bare metal and have to repaint anyway. Get some 0000 steel wool at the autoparts store. It is used to polish paint between coats (0000 is actually used to do the final polishing). It won't remove much, but may remove the texture without disturbing the paint too much. It's risky but you could try it.
If you need to repaint it, remove the textured paint with thinner, it's faster and a lot easier.
If it were me I'd take them apart and make sure I removed all the non metal thingies that are on the frames. Then let the bare frames soak in a pan of laquer thinner for an hour or so to remove all the paint and repaint them with the the right stuff. Laquer thinner should make short work of removing what you used since if it was ok for plastic then the best it could be is enamel base and laquer thinner will eat that right up.
I looked at the paint and it actually doesn't look that bad. I'll have to show some pics. But I think im still going to strip it off.
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