Spray paint on hot coat before gloss

General Discussion
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Any advise on painting a large area (rails) on the hotcoat before I gloss. My laps kicked before I was able to really get them wrapped and have done a bunch of ding repair. Now I would like to spray the rails a dark solid color add a pin line and gloss. What brand of spray paint do I use (home depot) and what needs to be done to the paint in terms of prep after it dries. Do I need to scuff it? Should I acetone it? Should I acetone the whole board before spraying the hotcoat? I need a little advise to cover up my lack of handy work on this one. Also…anyone know where I can get a pair of thoes FCS wooden keels?

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If you don’t have a touch-up spray gun or airbrush, and want to use spray paint, spray a tester on something and hotcoat it. Brush it out with a lot of pressure on the paint, that is, push down with the brush while applying the resin. If the paint doesn’t come off or bleed it before your resin kicks, it should work on your board. If you’ve got the airbrush, use acrylic paint, it has a higher chance of success without bleeding

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Dane,

I’ve had success painting the rails on the hotcoat for the same reasons you are wanting to do it: I needed to cover something up. Here are some points to help you do it successfully.

  1. Use Water Based acrylic paint. Flat, not gloss or semi-gloss. I use Liquitex, but there are other good quality paints out there.

  2. Sand rails parallel to the length of the board before painting. Use 180 or 220 grit.

3)Tape off the area you want to paint and be sure the tape is pressed down tight. Cover the areas you don’t want painted with newspaper or masking paper. Tape all the seams of the paper so paint won’t blow under the paper making ghost lines.

  1. Spray 3 to 4 LIGHT coats. Each coat makes a good base for the next, and you won’t get runs.

  2. After the paint drys, sand it lightly with 220 grit, being sure you knock down the edges where to tape was, which tend to get small ridges.

  3. Gloss as usual.

  4. BE CAREFUL when you sand and polish out the gloss. Sand-thru is easiest on the rails. Go easy, and only sand the absolute minimum to get the job done. Then polish it out.

Good luck. If done successfully, the rails will look bright and clean with intense color. Doug

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pigmented rails ?

with resin and surfacing agent

sand and then gloss?

some times the old way

can be advantagous.

…ambrose…

your call