So, lets fast forward to the last day of painting and when it all went downhill...
The underside of the formerly red trunk lid.
The setup for the other pieces, this was too crowded. I had to really calculate my walking path through the garage while doing this work. Here is everything in primer (except for my fix on the trunk lid) and sanded ready for green and gloss.
At this point, everything was still going great.
Here is the trunk all done
A bit more orange peely than the car, but cut and buff will fix that. This is the only separate piece that came out good. As i was spraying the base coat on the trunk lid, i noticed as soon as i finished the trunk lid both air compressors were kicking on. Which was odd considering I had made it 3/4 of the way around the car before that happened before. As i continued moving through the garage, i could tell something was wrong. My pressure was steadily dropping well below where the gun could get proper atomization and was starting to spray inconsistently, which is great when spraying something with the amount of pearls this paint has (sarcasm). Because it wasnt atomizing efficiently, i quickly ran out of material and had to go buy more. After i got back from buying more paint, i had more mechanical failure. My second air compressor stopped filling up to fully capacity and it stopped letting air out. No idea what happened here. But, i was more than half way through so i just pressed on, spraying at well less than the required PSI. Not what i wanted to do, but it was going to be in the 50's for the rest of the week and the foreseeable forecast so this was the last day i could do this as it was in the lower 80's. I had one paint reaction between the paint and the primer on the front bumper as well, not sure if i was sweating and i missed a drop getting on the bumper or what happened there.
And the rest of the pictures, most of these pieces will need redone next year.
Overall, i'm still happy and proud of this work. I know now that if I dont have mechanical failures, i can lay down a halfway decent paint job. I'm going to take a closer look at these parts in the sun to check for coverage, and hopefully a cut and buff is all some of these will need. The front bumper, one fender, one side skirt, the mirrors, and the front lip definitely need redone with paint and clear. I can tell the paint is just too inconsistent with a couple of blotched areas where the pressure wasnt enough to get it to lay correctly. And the mirrors and the front bumper by the grill were an absolute PITA to get paint into all of the right places. The mirrors only need redone because i didnt get adequate coverage in some of their body lines and that will just drive me nuts if i leave it as is. Same with the bumper, even if i didnt have that reaction i would still need to redo the area by the grill. When i do this again, i'll do fewer parts at once and really take my time making sure the paint goes where it needs to on these more difficult parts. I think i'll figure out a different way to mount the mirrors too, hanging them was a little difficult. Between now and then i'll also look to replace my air compressors with one bigger one. Or, i'll paint 1 or 2 pieces at a time and just use my larger air compressor of the two that i have. Still, overall i'm really proud of myself with this and it was fun. At least the pieces that need to be redone are easily removable from the car and this didnt happen in the middle of the quarter panel or the roof or something.