Re: paint question.. please help =)
A few thing's i can share about Bright Sides, it will produce result's that extrodinary, but in painting your boat think of it as painting a glass mirror any imperfections on the glass will show greatly.
Fisrt id wash down the boat with comet first,secondly a good dish soap followed by a very liberal wipe using laquer thinner. It is very important to eliminate any wax, oil, etc, residue from the boat.
Sanding down the old outer coat can be done with 80 grit, pay very close attetion to any small ding's id also do it by hand, using 80 it will not take that much longer.
After cutiing off the top of the old gel, get yourself some interlux fairing putty to smooth out any little imperfection's use it in very small amounts,that stuff really sets up fast so know ahead of time what you going to fair
Putting a base coat's is in my opinion nessecary, you might very well end up doing 2-4 base coat's, again lightly hand sand using 220 grit, What your looking for is almost a semi glass like look from your primer after sanding it will take on a almost light purple hue. The primer is very light paint dont let it distress you if you sand though it hence the 2-4 coat's
I cannot stress how important it is to due the above prep step's it's actually 90% of the job
As to the final painting i had 80 degree weather with little humidity, I thinned down the paint using Interlux 333,what worked the best in that case was 4 oz of 333 to 16 oz of paint or about 20%. The first coat was very light surfaced dried in about 1 hour, its not gonna look that great but dont let that worry you. This time i used 440 grit and again lightly sanded the next day and repainted,
On the area's that i had prepped properly (flat and smooth as glass) the result's were to me were stunning, No one could have told me a amature could produce a paint job that looked that great. Unfortunatley it was so good i had to go back and take out all of the imperfections that i had negelected to do the first time
The actual painting only take's a very small amout of time...........had i spent more time on the prep i could post some very nice results............. here's a shot that was done correctly
