Here´s my first ever creation based entirely on Swaylockian advice. It´s been a complete solo flight so far but I´ve now reached a stage where I need some guidance.
I´m working on a 5.9 quad. Everything had gone pretty smoothly until I had my first run in with Epoxy. I´d never had any contact with laminating anything before and was caught out by my inexperience. My batch of epoxy started to kick really quick the day I did the bottom lam. In my inexperience (and slight panic as the epoxy started to get alarmingly hot in the container) I ended up with some pretty hefty excess lumps of dried resin, which I then attacked with the sander. As you cans see from the photo this has left me with some serious marking.
My question is how can I keep my project from going off the rails, aesthetically speaking? I had thought about painting the worst areas? Hot coating with pigmented resin? Setting down another laayer of glass? I´m really not sure what would be best.
Thanks for the advice guys. I´ve learnt my lesson with pouring on all the resin. The deck came out much better. Hicksy by tinting my gloss coat do you think I´ll be able to cover up most of thos scratches?
Just to give you guys some feedback. I hotcoated the board the way she was with some pigment mixed in and it turned out quite well, for a newbie anyway.
All the scrathches have diappeared! Hurrah!
Then I did the worst pinline ever! And a pretty shocking leash loop too.
Hotcoated the deck…
Managed to go over the fins with some resin! Hopefully that will sand off. So just got some serious sanding and polishing to go now and number 1 is done. I´ve learned a lot through trial and error and it´s been a really steep learning curve but a lot of fun too. Thanks swaylocks for providing the initial stimulus. I owe you a beer.