Hi, I am building my frist 1m radio control sail boat. I bought a kit from ProBoats, 1 meter Cup Yatch. The address on the instruction is from Sidney Austrailia. The hull, keel and rudder are made from ABS. I have despared all the parts of extra flashing. Now I would like to paint the hull, keel and rudder before I assemble the boat. I have lightly sanded all the parts with 400 git sand. I have epoxy the lead tear drop shape bulb to the keel and filled in the gaps with body contorl pudy. Should I sand the lead blub too? I would like to do a fancy paint job with a high gloss shine.
What type of paint should I use? Should I use acrlyic or enamal? What type of tricks have ya’ll used to achive a high gloss finsh? I am planing to use bright yellow as my base color and fire engine red as and accent color. I will make my own decals for the boat name. I am thinking about using blue painter tape to mask out area that I do not want to paint. Should I use a can of spary paint or an air brush? If used the air brush The hull might take a long time to paint with a tiny airbrush. Do ya’ll use and airbrush or a can of spray paint to paint the hull of your boats?
I thank ya’ll all in advance for any and all suggestion that would help me to paint this boat and achive my desire out come of a high polish finish and hopefully a sharp looking and kewl paint job. I might not have the fast boat on the lake but I would like to have the greatist looking boat.
Good Sail,
WindWarrior6682
Palm Beach County Florida