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@Dooks-Fatberg
Nitro finishing a crappy partscaster Strat update:
After loads of head-scratching I decided to spray outside. I bought a proper respirator from Screwfix which is great and have been hanging the guitar from a washing line and/or bracket, spraying and bringing straight back inside where I hang it from a clothes drying rack in the utility room.
I sanded off a brushed on sanding sealer that didn't look very even, and redid with a couple of coats of spray sealer. Did some sanding back between coats of sealer to manage the occasional run or dust speck.
Did a couple of coats of (white) primer and 4 or 5 coats of nitro gloss in vintage white. Did some very light sanding back between colour coats as well.
I'm now two days and six coats into the clear coats. Have just finished the first can and will probably do another three coats tomorrow before deciding whether it needs any more or if I should do a first wet-sand, before the final couple of coats of clear and putting it away for a few weeks.
Lessons learned so far: Spraying outside isn't ideal. It was way too windy when I did the primer and colour coat which made it difficult to manage how much paint was getting onto the guitar. I think I tried to compensate for the fact that the wind was whipping the spray away by getting too close and ended up with pronounced stripes in the primer which were then hard to cover up with the colour.
Again, with the colour coats, I think spraying outside in a breeze meant that I was losing way more paint than was getting onto the guitar meaning I ran out of colour before I got the level of saturation that I wanted.
Other than that, it's looking ok! I'm not too worried about the odd imperfection and I quite like a relic vibe anyway and as this is my first project, i'm treating it very much as a practice piece.