Yea, im having hell right now with the paint on mine. Lets see, in its life it started as red with yellow hull. Then onto yellow with yellow. Than on to white with blue hull. And then white with THICK BLUE 'speckle effect' (haha). Now Im sanding all of it down with a 60 grit orbital sander. Its doing the job well. But the thick blue paint is just gunking up sand paper left and right. Im winning though