First, I taped off the actual seat, etc and then used a compound to roughen the surface and sprayed an adhesion promoter on the seat. Then, I base coated the toilet seat with black, then sprayed a House Of Kolor (www.HouseOfKolor.com) purple marbleizer and while that paint was still wet, I used bubble wrap and placed and pulled it off the toilet seat over and over again to give it a marble-looking effect. After doing so, I sprayed a bit of metal flake (also known as glitter for those ladies :-) on the top of the purple marblizer. The toilet seat was then clear coated and I wet-sanded it the next day (so the paint for the flames would stick) and laid out a flames design with 1/8'' blue fine line tape. After that, I then used 2'' masking tape and rolled a row at a time over the entire surface and cut out around where the flames were to be painted. I painted the flames a florescent orange and when that dried, I laid fiberglass tape-like material on the flames and lightly sprayed purple on top to give the flames a orange/purple checkered look. (you can see the tone change in the picture where the purple was sprayed lightly or heavily). Finally, I peeled all the tape off on the top of the toilet seat and cleared the whole thing. I put about 2 coats of clear on it and the next day I wet-sanded the whole top of the seat again and Wes helped (Well, Wes helped me with the process) me buff the toilet seat with 3M polishes and glazes (www.3M.com) and the Custom Painted Toilet Seat was done!
Well, chemical reactions was a slight problem I had with this toilet seat. After spraying the silver and then lightly spraying black to tip the flames, a small area about 2''x2'' starting "busting" which means it was cracking and half of the cracking was on the purple and half was on the silver. This "reaction" has something to do with the silver color...it is a weird color and can be tricky. I am still trying to find out what went wrong-probably just bad prep work. I had to wait until it dried before I could wet-sand the small spot and when I finished doing that, I had to put the fine line tape back on the small part of the flame and re-spray the silver and purple in that area, but I had to make sure the silver didn't get on the purple and vice-versa which was tough. The night before my "deadline", all of the following happened---in ONE night: Eventually, I got the toilet seat clear-coated until I ran into another problem that again was my fault...After leaving the toilet seat to dry in the laundry room, I went back to check on the toilet seat and saw a corner of newspaper was laying on the top left-hand corner of the toilet seat. Again, I was not a happy person at that time but something had to be done because this would be a toilet seat that I would have to sell! So I immediately pulled off the newspaper laying on the toilet seat but carefully to not totally ruin the whole paint job. I don't remember what I did to fix that exactly, but I think I either re-sprayed the purple in that bad spot or used a paint brush and brushed the purple on there. After the whole thing was dry, I wet-sanded the entire surface and then cleared the whole toilet seat for the last and final time. Thank God. The next day, the toilet seat was all ready for the "Custom Painted Toilet Seat Market" and sold for either $20 or $25, I'm can't remember, to my neighbor.
