that's the thing about automotive laquer, but urethanes shrink some too, there are more solids in the DCC paint that we are using than almost any other. I have been told that DCC paint have the most solids and is one of the heaviest paints available. My paint store guy was surprised and impressed that we are even using DCC because of the weight issues... I think he told me the Omni line has less than half the pigment solids that DCC has.

So maybe the shrinkage issue is not so bad with DCC in a 2 - stage application. Plus you can help hide the weave with an extra coat of clear and wet sand it. Clear coat is designed to help hide surface defects and the stuff I use sands really well.

Mike will reply too, but if you can see just a very faint weave that is a good thing, that is what you want - as you know you sanded the plane well. and it's a very light paint job.