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Old 03-24-2017, 10:45 AM
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Leroy Gardner
 
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Originally Posted by Check6
Leroy,
Beautiful job on both. Love the first one!! Are you using single stage enamel with hardener or base coat clearcoat?
Thanks,
Fred
It's PPG's Omni base coat/clear coat on the cub, Spacewalker has Sherwin Williams 4th Dimension base/clear coat, both over natural non primed Solartex. All exposed wood is sealed, sanded and sealed again with nitrate dope, no need to primer it.

All aluminum is sanded and primed with self etching primer, fiberglass is primed with hi build Dupli-Color primer sanded and painted. There is a lot of paints and primers out there, one needs to know the compatibility of all the products he's going to use, Google Compatible paint charts and then do some tests. Knowledge will make you a good painter, without it you'll become a mess maker.

Leroy