Dome Panel Touch-Up at Mike's

Yesterday I mentioned that one of droid #1's dome panels had a flaw in the recently applied clear coat. Mike Senna had some fresh clear coat that was otherwise going to go to waste, so I took advantage of the opportunity to bring the panel over for recoating.

One of Mike's droid's legacy leg-cutout pieces served as a paddle to hold the panel.



I started applying the clear coat, but I immediately noticed that the problem wasn't going away, and instead, was causing a cloudy appearance in the area I had lightly sanded and prepped yesterday. I abruptly stopped the application.



Mike took a look, and suspected that some of the Duplicolor blue had been sanded, and suggested we reapply a light layer of it, and then re-clear coat on top of that. Mike offered to do that, and I took him up on the offer.



The blue now looked uniform.



We waited an hour, and then Mike reapplied the clear coat



Once it had sufficiently cured, I replaced the panel back on the dome back home. Much better!



Hopefully that's the last of the clear coat concerns, forever.