Yo man sorry for late reply, Whoever mentioned embracing it's imperfections was right. It's becoming sort of worth the paint.
Although the wait for the paint was one of the worst parts, I don't think powder would take nearly as long as spray paint. Just google to find some local powder dudes numbers and call them up.
Also, they sort of charge per part, frame being most expensive "I think since it's first he mentioned"
Stay tuned for some sort of update, i'll link it here and pm you to let you know I responded if you were curious. Maybe i'll start filming over time and trow it all in a vid. Also some powder shots will be nice if I get to them.
I'm just going to powder less parts (cranks, hubs, stem) same color and rest of bike just buy raw/black/chrome parts. (combo of sexiness.)
Thanks for whoever mentioned the cear plastic stuff. I wouldn't think that would work.
Hmm, and whoever mentioned different kinds of base paints, guess an experiment couldn't hurt.
To sum it up, spray is worth it if you really want to play with colors and are broke at the moment. Probably would make you appreciate it more when you afford to powder.
Other notes, I saw a vid where powder is harder to sand blast of metal than anodize fwiw, and powder can look perdy/ shiny just cost a little more to get the effects...
Oh and lastly, don't spray aluminum parts! ! ! ! ! chips right off. You can tell it's aluminum "my seatpost was only alum. part" bc/ it's much lighter feeling than the other steel parts.
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