Brushing paint

Has anyone any experience/advice/do's/don'ts on using brushing paint, such as Re-Paint onto glass-fibre? Wouldn't it give a good finish if it were flatted with 1200 W&D?

Reply to
Jeff Salisbury
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Re-Paint is truly awful stuff - don't use it. It's nothing more than highly priced very bog standard coach enamel and drips and runs all over the place. What's more, the coverage is terrible and the red I used dries with a horrible milky finish rather than a deep lustrous colour. The best result I ever had with a brush was with agricultural enamel from International Paints. There were amazingly no brush marks! That was years ago and now there are loads of enamels, some of which will brush OK. Find a decent local supplier and ask for advice. But I do mean decent - some of them won't be very knowledgeable. You can flat and polish some enamels. I recently sprayed Lechler 29150 but got lots of blemishes. After 3 months of air drying over the last very hot summer I flatted with 1200 and then polished, but it's impractical by hand (I have the tennis elbow to prove it). I bought a cheap electric polisher and the finish is the envy of my friends. The best polishing compounds I found were Farecla G3 and G10. Having said all this, I would prefer to spray using a fast drying acrylic lacquer. If you are forced to flat and polish, it will be easier after a mediocre spray job than after most brushing jobs, and if you use lacquer you won't have to wait 3 months. Halfway decent spray equipment is affordable these days.

Reply to
Les Rose

You can buy brushing enamel paint for cars gives a good finish without the 1200.

Reply to
ops

Dunno, never used "Re-Paint". I have used two-pack brushing paints on glassfibre boats. It's a specialised technique that needs two people, one applying the paint the other "laying-off". However it produces astonishing results, deep lustrous paint with a finish free of brush marks.

It may be worthwhile looking at the Awlgrip and International paint catalogues for advice on technique and types of paint. Their products aren't cheap, but the paint finish lasts 10-12 years in salt water.

Reply to
Steve Firth

Check out

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for hand painting cars.

Reply to
Phill Dodds

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