Glassing and Painting techniques

[kork]

well, you guys caught me at the right time, I am ready to final sand and fill. I have no problems trying the joint compound. Are you using just regular premixed USG or a powder 20 minute?

 

[Jetpainter]

well, you guys caught me at the right time, I am ready to final sand and fill. I have no problems trying the joint compound. Are you using just regular premixed USG or a powder 20 minute?

I used premixed lightweight joint compound.

 

[Jetpainter]

 

[Terryscustom]

Yup, I did not use the lightweight just because I had regular on hand from some mold making, but the P-mix is awesome and you will sand off 99% of it anyway. I'll be back to work on my hatch later this week, so I'll post more pics when I get caught up on "work" work.

 

[Dooinit]

I'll be interested to see what the others say but I hate red filler with a passion! As Tyler said, it's a one part filler so not very hard, and it clogs sandpaper really really bad, unless you have very small patches. Covering an entire panel or hatch...

YA, that stuff is laquor based, and it tends to shrink quite a bit. It's is only useful for pinholes.

 

[Dooinit]

And, I don't think primer adds as much weight as we would maybe think. I mean, we are sanding most of it off anyway. With my thunderbolt, I pretty much sanded the whole thing until I could just start to break through to the glass with 220, then I put one more nice coat of primer on it a little over reduced so it spayed smoother, and scuffed that with 600 wet. There can't be much build there

 

[yakken]

Could you guys add how to tint a canopy.thanks

 

[IMAC FANATIC]

Glad to see this....lots to learn!

Freaking love the new avatar !!!
Subd' great subject. Thanks again for pooling resources into one thread. Very cool.

 

[edgewise]

The Red filler is BAD stuff, STAY AWAY, FAR FAR AWAY. The only guarantee it has- is to cause future problems!

Sounds like you've used that stuff before...Lol

 

[Wacobipe]

This thread is gonna help me big time when it comes time to paint the Raven!