Darin's UL1 Race Prep

[Capt. Crash]

Looks good to me!

I stuffed a piece of balsa in my fins....works good...as I found out last week!

[AndyKunz]

Was the red bleeding through chemically? Or was it just not covering red? Red is known for being hard to paint over (or remove from skin, or from clothing) - something about the color.

Andy

[Darin Jordan]

Was the red bleeding through chemically? Or was it just not covering red? Red is known for being hard to paint over (or remove from skin, or from clothing) - something about the color.

Andy

Andy... The best way to describe it was that is would just cause the white to look pinkish-red... evenly across the whole surface... almost like the red was mixing with the white...

I used a gray primer under the silver paint, and while it still did it, it was not nearly as bad or noticable...

The ProBoat I converted previously did the same thing, but only where the decals had been...

[Flying Scotsman]

Darin, I would presume a paint that is not compatible wirh the original paint. Did you apply a primer after wet sanding the original surface. Did that primer flash and bond well with no apparent bleed. Ditto for top coats? Have you tried to apply a tape and pull with no damage to the newly painted surface.

Douggie

[Darin Jordan]

Darin, I would presume a paint that is not compatible wirh the original paint. Did you apply a primer after wet sanding the original surface. Did that primer flash and bond well with no apparent bleed. Ditto for top coats? Have you tried to apply a tape and pull with no damage to the newly painted surface.

Douggie

YES... YES and NO... YES and NO... Yes and it's fine...

Maybe nextime I'll try an enamel instead of a lacquer-based paint...

[Flying Scotsman]

HMMM. You had some bleed on the primer coat?

[Darin Jordan]

HMMM. You had some bleed on the primer coat?

Doug... it could be best characterized as color "mixing"... The white primer actually turned pink... Coat after coat after coat... It NEVER stayed just white... Then the white paint coats did the same thing...

Like I just edited in my previous post... maybe next time, I'll try some enamel based paint instead of lacquer...

[Flying Scotsman]

Darin, I prefer grey as a primer but some top coats really show their true colours with white as a primer. As an aside I love Tamiya TS paints as they are compatible with many other paints and surfaces.

Douggie

[AndyKunz]

Another trick is to use Bulls Eye shellac before the primer. It very effectively seals the under paint.

Andy

[detox]

I prefer standerd Krylon paint. What brand of primer and paint did you use? I am guessing Duplicolor.

[egneg]

This is why I ordered a white boat ... so I could paint it.

[detox]

Krylon's White primer is semi tranparent so I bet it would not hide the Red verywell either. I bet light gray primer would work best at covering up the Red and preventing the pink color.

[Darin Jordan]

Krylon's White primer is semi tranparent so I bet it would not hide the Red verywell either. I bet light gray primer would work best at covering up the Red and preventing the pink color.

I used Krylon's light gray primer where I painted the silver portions and it only too two coats to get full coverage... so you may be right...

[Darin Jordan]

I'm just about there... Need to apply some clear, and I have one more change I'd like to make, which is to put some brass tubing in for the water inlet and outlet. I prefer that over just running the lines through the hull. Should be a simple update.

By the way... does anyone know what is backing up the motor-mount to hull screws in the hull?? Is it aluminum or a piece of wood... or nothing? I'm thinking I'd like to replace those screws (which appear to be small sheet-metal or wood screws) with some threaded 4-40 inserts or something like that...

[detox]

Grimracer did comment about this...I think it is wood. Search post by Grimracer