Reposted including ukrm [QUOTE] WTF am I doing wrong ?. rsbikepaint supplied me the "correct" Candy Red for the Bantam tank. What I received was a water based silver base coat and COB colour layer. I already have plenty of 2k laquer. The water based crap is giving me a serious hard time, despite scupulous cleanliness it ends up looking like dust has blown onto it before drying. This happens every bloody time. I am thinking that possibly there are some large flakes in the silver but I have never had this problem before. Is this a known problem with water based paint or is there some special technique, I have never used water based before ? Maybe I should leave it overnight or longer then just give it a rub with some 1200 grade to get rid of the bits that are sticking up ?. I normally just put the base coat on, wait an hour, put a few coats of colour, wait an hour, apply decals, and apply the laquer without any intermediate rubbing to make sure that the silver shines through evenly. [/QUOTE]