Can it be done successfully? Spray paint? Acrylic? Whoever has done this and already made all the mistakes, please save me from that. Please. Thank you.
All the best.
futures does colored boxes…not sure about fcs but I haven’t seen any. If paint I’d think a waterbased acrylic would be best, maybe do pigmented lam resin painted on the top before you install them?.. then again I have never done this
good luck
just shoot it with a krylon spraypaint or any waterbased acrylic. No problems at all.
I’ve painted FCS Fusion with Krylon ‘Fusion’ spraypaint for plastics. Install post lam with a patch before hotcoating.
Works great. Boxes look cool too.
I’ll try to upload a pic later
~Brian
Brian, thx. Why post lam?
I used to paint futures with acrylic lacquer. (Spray bombs from Auto Zone). I am using FCS fusion now and don’t see why it wouldnt work on them. Have never used Krylon acrylic but I hear it’s good stuff.
Installing post lam will result in foamand wood shavings all over your tacky lam job and will stick to it. I have had success doing it after sanded hotcoat by sanding down to weave in that area, installing, glassing over, hotcoat, sand…done. I don’t like stuff stuck to my sticky lam job.
good luck
Montana Gold.
SO many colors.
Im not sure why you would do after the lam? I have done it several times as a normal install with no issues.
With a resin tinted or pigmented lam, fin boxes often installed afterward.
Whenever I do a pigment lamination (poly) I’ve always routed the holes right on the lamination and baste down patches over the boxes, logos too.
Never had any problems with debris sticking, just a blast with air hose or a second with the shop vac. Never handle a lamination with bare hands though
Yeah thats common practice, just nowhere up until this point has anyone mentioned a colored lam. So my question is why would you not do a normal install. I dont see how painting the boxes would require an after lam install.
agreed, foam install is the preferred method and the way it was designed to be, clean tight fit strongest, painted plugs or not. I think it was FoamEZ Brian who mentioned his method for post lam install, that’s all.
Yes, the board Greenlight Brian was referring to had a dark pigment swirl on the bottom. A pre-lam install would have defeated the purpose of painting the boxes.
Makes sense, there was just no clarity so it seemed as if he was recommending that painted boxes are better post lam…
Nice paint work on the boxes Acqua....the tail is built to fail...you know that
I would snap those things off kissing my wife good by before an early morning surf.............heck...she might even break off those little wing buggers just for fun...before I wake up.....
Thanks… As long as they make it out the door in 1 piece… I have done my job… J/k they are actually pretty well built when i am done. This is the 4th one with that tail in 6 months maybe??? As far as I know they are all still in tact.
Stingray, that was hilarious.
I’m just a backyard hack and not trying to be a dick, but unless I’m not understanding what I think I’m seeing, it looks like your blue painted boxes bled all over your lam near the boxes. Exactly what the OP was trying to avoid?
optical illusion maybe in the photo?
Ill try to get a better pic there is no bleeding. The wall right behind me is a shaping room blue and everything has a blue tinge in there.
No bleeding ive had some bleeding on certain paints way back in the day but not the Montana Gold cans.
the way I do it is paint.
Set the boxes apply footballs, brush resin on footballs only and about 1/4 inch around routed hole. I do this to kind of seal/encapsulate the painted boxes before lamming.
Lam as usual after the footballs set up.
Acrylic lacquer is compatable with epoxy in that if it’s sanded the epoxy will bond
nicely to it and the lacquer won’t run. I use the technique both on fins and on fishing lures.
No Worries, Rich