Advice needed: Old school LB deck color panels, how best?

General Discussion
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I’ve been staring at an EPS blank I built a while back sitting on my rack.  Clark 95S rocker with a balsa and redwood Tband.  Decided to go for it.  I’m building another Pig.  I want to do old school primary color deck panels outlined in pinline like the old pictures.  I can do the pinlines. 

How would you do the color panels?  Pigmented resin/cloth inlays?  I will likely give in and try to polish it.  But I want the colors to pop.  Thinking airbrush on the deck will be too deep below the glass to show well.  But I really don’t know.  The deck panels will cover a large area.  I need even color.

thx in advance

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You can spray paint on EPS fairly well, but its not necessarily as even you might want, depending on how well you can finish up your blank.

How about resin panels done on the sanded hotcoat as Austin has done on some of his boards?

Here’s a deck that I sprayed a while back.  Acrylic on EPS.  Black rails don’t come out well when you try to lam epoxy over them … so you know.   :slight_smile:

fish paint

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Greg, I think you should do it the old way: tinted gloss panels, light sanding, clear gloss. Just like this one that Chacal recently made for me:

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Its either spray on the sanded hc/gloss over; or gloss resin color/gloss over; or catylized marine paint (Imron, Awlgrip), gloss over optional. 

There was a thread not long ago that drifted off into a discussion of gloss color panels. Back in the day it was like this: mix resin right to limits of pigmentation, fire it really hot, walk it out quick, pull the tape just before the resin gels, all preferably with a cigarette jammed in your teeth and beer/liquor in progress.

You can roller and tippet the marine paint, and you'll feel all yachty in the process :)

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wow.  I looked at Imron and it looks scary to use. Back to Epoxy, I guess.  I’m just not sure how it will do as a high build coat and pulling a tape off it.  Any experience anyone?  thx

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wow.  I looked at Imron and it looks scary to use.

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Where's your sense of adventure?

 

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OK, that was funny.

I’ll update my will, make peace with my maker, and heck give it a try.  What is the worst that can happen?

Oh, that.

 

 

 

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Dupont wouldn't make anything bad for you, would they?

Barnfield just painted a whole blowboat with it and he's still kickin'.

I'll let you get back to looking for someone who's done panels in epoxy.....

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I want to do old school primary color deck panels outlined in pinline like the old pictures. 

Airbrush.....

Plan your glass job to avoid frothing....Use E cloth. Don't overwork it. Do the pin lines on top of the sanded hot coat...

You have the skills....

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OK, Ray, I’m mustering the courage.  I can do this.  thx