While I was cutting my new paint, I screwed up and let the edge of the buffer scrape against the inner sail panel on my 70 Vette. As you can see below, it put a couple of small nicks that go down to the sealer. The white scuffs are just in the clear, so I think I can sand them out as I put 4 coats on. I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to repair the nicks.
This base coat is Chromabase, which uses the Basemaker. So I started with two gallons of sprayable base. I used almost all of it, but when I mixed my first batch, I spilled about 3-4 ounces of the basemaker on the ground. So I have about that much left of the base, but no Basemaker to mix it with. So I would have to go down and get a quart each of Chromabase/Basemaker just to fix a couple spots the size of half a fingernail. That's probably about $200.
So here's what I'm wondering. I found a couple posts where others have some Chromabase w/o Basemaker and asked if it could be mixed with urethane reducer instead of Basemaker. There seemed to be mixed opinions, but that was for painting much larger areas. The paint job came out pretty good, but there are some flaws as it was my first time painting and I was doing it in my garage, so I'm not really looking for perfection. I have some SPI reducer and clear activator. What do you think of mixing the remaining Chromabase with an equal amount of reducer and a few drops of activator? Could I use that as a touch-up paint, then clear over it? Could I brush it on, then spray the clear?
This base coat is Chromabase, which uses the Basemaker. So I started with two gallons of sprayable base. I used almost all of it, but when I mixed my first batch, I spilled about 3-4 ounces of the basemaker on the ground. So I have about that much left of the base, but no Basemaker to mix it with. So I would have to go down and get a quart each of Chromabase/Basemaker just to fix a couple spots the size of half a fingernail. That's probably about $200.
So here's what I'm wondering. I found a couple posts where others have some Chromabase w/o Basemaker and asked if it could be mixed with urethane reducer instead of Basemaker. There seemed to be mixed opinions, but that was for painting much larger areas. The paint job came out pretty good, but there are some flaws as it was my first time painting and I was doing it in my garage, so I'm not really looking for perfection. I have some SPI reducer and clear activator. What do you think of mixing the remaining Chromabase with an equal amount of reducer and a few drops of activator? Could I use that as a touch-up paint, then clear over it? Could I brush it on, then spray the clear?