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It's difficult to explain without showing somebody but I'll try.
The important things to remember about spray painting are:
Prepare the surface for painting properly using a a light medium grade of wet & dry paper, say 600 - 800 grit just until the gloss surface is Matt.
Prime the fender with an acrylic primer ( you can put acrylic over cellulose but you can't put cellulose over acrylic as it
crazes the finish ).
Don't apply to much paint at one time, but rather dust it on and allow it to dry between coats. Little and often. Gently rubbing down between coats with wet, fine grade wet and dry paper 1200 or 1000 grit.
Always keep the spray nozzle parallel to the surface to be sprayed, don't turn the the spray can in your wrist, follow the surface with your arm, equidistant to the surface.
To keep the coats even rather than allowing the paint to build up in one place, developing high spots.
Put a good few coats of clear coat on to finish, flat the texture of the dry clear coat out with 1200 grit wet and dry paper, using it wet with a little soap. Dry it off fully then polish it to a gloss with with a compound polish such as T-Cut.
I dunno if that helps but I have won a few shows in the past for best paint.
It's all in the prep.
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