twoolley08

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Hey everyone thought I would make a new post instead of having a bunch of others in different locations. What have and been doing is, stripping all of the old paint of a shockwave, sand it all down, fill in the rough spots, sand more, prime, wet sand, now the white basecoat. Soon to come next will be the top part of the hull being a Sunset Orange Metallic. Same color as the hard to find SOM Pontiac Firehawk. Very nice color in my eyes. Let me know what you think of my progess.
This is also my very frist time doing a paint job with a spray gun other than rattle cans, not including the priming i did. Any tips to help me out would be cool too! Like how to set the boat up to paint top and bottom other than hanging it by string lol.

the very bad previous paint job

over spray everywhere


lots and lots of cracks

very rough bottom


overspray on the hardware




and the paint stripper, the really brown stuff was bad old stock that didnt work the light greenish color was fresh and worked great.





sanded down now





filled in with white putty






after sanding already primed



white basecoat down

hyper701

wow that old paint jod realy did suck lol lookin good now tho, keep us posted

Ron Olson

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I'm just hoping that you're going to replace the flex cable during the rebuild, that baby is shot!

twoolley08

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haha yeah i already bought a new one and some enforcer trim tabs

twoolley08

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yeah so i just noticed i didnt add any full pics of the boat....i only have one not all but here it is.....this is also my frist real repair and repaint job ever for a fiberglass boat, besides a hull that i tryed to make years ago (molded on the outside of an older plastic hull.....didnt turn out good)

rcguy1411

what did you use to strip the paint as im starting a repaint and repower right now

twoolley08

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this stuff called.....ready strip, I got it from sherwin williams. if you get some make sure its not brown like the first couple of pics, that crap was stale, it needs to be a light shade of green.

so what is a good way to hold the boat for painting other than hanging it from the stringers?

mmarionz

looking good

wave waker

awesome job[sm=thumbup.gif],,

xredge

Looks good. Ihave I just picked up that Ihave to redo as the the fuel was leaking and blistered the gel coat on the bottom and can see through in light now ( can see the cloth) but not all the way through that Ineed to fix. I'm going to redo the whole thing this winter as Ipicked up just a hull with hardware before getting this one. Trying to decide if I want to gelcoat the area or the whole bottom of the hull. But so far can only find gel coat in quarts for around 25 and not sure if it is worth it for just a small repair area.

twoolley08

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i was going to gel coat the whole boat but after lookin into it more the cost was going to be crazy. that and i would of needed to mix it with something else or they said it would stay tacky and i really didnt want to mess with all that.

xredge

That is what I was thinking. Iwas thinking of seeing if I could just sand down that one area and put some resin there, then sanding the rest of the hull enough for the paint to stick and do it that way so I'll still have most of the gelcoat there. I'm also going to fix the inside and put in some more resin and cloth in the tank and motor area. Good thing Ipicked up that Hull in Macomb (actually picked it up first)so Ican switch things over to take to Caseville this weekend. Plus I only see it running at the most a couple times a month if that during summer time.

twoolley08

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gettin all taped up ready for the sunset orange metallic!



mmmm the Sunset Orange Metallic!!! a few bugs landed on the paint and messed a few tiny spots up kinda pissed me off!!



a bug landed near the right side where the hatch opening starts messed it up. and you can see a spot in the center where a big hit and crawled till i pulled it out with tweezers


had a small run on the hatch


few little specs if you can see them maybe? this is where 2 bugs messed it up



getting ready to put the clear coat on!!!!



the clear is on now but its a little to dark, kinda maaaddddd about the clear, a lot of dust and dirt got in there some how




Hope you all enjoy my pics!!!! Next up is puttin her back together and thinkin of a name and some other scems to put down maybe some numbers? let me know what ya think!!!

twoolley08

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more pics to come soon!

rcguy1411

looks great the ready strip worked great for me have a few more hours of sanding left what kind of paint did you use i that was my boat i d through some numbers make it look like a 80'sff shore racer

twoolley08

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i used the crossfire automotive paint. i think i did a pretty damn good job if i say so myself for being a first complete paint job every lol. Now all i need to do is firgure out how to rub the clear to get it all nice an smooth like glass.

bigcam406

nice job! love the color.im a fan of just 1 color without the stripes,but thats just me.

twoolley08

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thank you! The aeromarine Sprintcat that im redoing is going to one color and it will be the same sunset orange metallic. I didnt want to have 2 boats the exact exact same lol.

srw1960

Dude you have done a VERY VERY nice job....And I hate it to when the only gnat for 10 miles flys all the way over just to land in the fresh paint..It ALLWAYS happens so I have a pair of sharp nosed tweezers about 10 inches long that keep in my back pocket when im painting to dig the SOB'S out...your dust and dirt in the clear can be wet sanded out with 1000 grit and then buffed with coarse compound then mild compound and finaly some good swirl remover and glaze and itll look 5 miles deep...and I LOVE that orange you put on it...Welcome to the world of air gun painting your off to a very good start......

xredge

Looks great!   I'm also not a fan of the bottom of the hull being white.  I'm actually glad I seen it this way as I thought about doing the hull somewhat similiar but probally going to strip the side just haven't decided color theme yet.  Thinking of some sort of darker metallic blue like on bass boats as the base.

twoolley08

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some more pics!!! Almost complete










what pipe should i use? the one with the blue is the stock pipe

rcguy1411

looks good i like what you did with the arch

twoolley08

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would a 3/16 stinger drive work good on these boats?

apache 1

Like I was saying on the other thread I'm going to try one on mine.

apache 1

I thought I invented that way to paint a boat. Great minds perhaps think alike after all.