Well... so I clearcoated the deflector. The first two coats were fine, but it started getting an orange peel texture in one area of the dish.

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After conferring with Urumomo privately we decided it was either the clearcoat being an alkyd resin attacked the acrylic paint, or I wasn't waiting long enough between coats.

So the decision was made to strip it and repaint... BUT! I am broke till Friday, and I wanted to fix my screwup NOW. So....

I took my moto tool's buffing bit and some agressive wetsanding for a while, and got this.

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Not pretty, but worlds better than before.

Continued sanding till I got it as smooth as I could with the tools at hand. Then found I had some Testors glosscoat I didn't know I had.

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I will wetsand after its fully dry. Then recoat.

Will decide for certain after that, but I think I saved it.