Help with painting my heron

Hi all,

Edited by doomie22 - 05 May 11 at 4:48pm

Originally posted by tickler I have painted many boats. I use Hammerite Garage Door paint (smooth) apply it with  a brush and  roll it off with a short pile mini roller intended for gloss paint.

Pretty much any paint will work on a dinghy, but the specialist boat paints tend to be harder wearing and look pretty for longer. The paints suggested by Jimc will certainly work well. The info on the tins will explain how to go about things, drying times, how many coats and the like. I like putting paint on with a miniroller (using a Harris varnish miniroller bit on the end) but in the end use whatever you are comfortable with. You will certainly need 4 coats, 2 of primer/undercoat and 2 of topcoat. You may need more undercoat if when you sand back you are still not happy with the finish. Best to get it all nice and smooth at the undercoat stage.

see how it goes.  Count on 2. 2 will be better

I think you want the normal (non-epoxy) primer/undercoat

http://marinestore.co.uk/HA5141X.html

Originally posted by doomie22 With the "Brilliant Enamel", do you mean that I can just put that straight on with no undercoat?

No, its a combined undercoat and primer, so you still need an undercoat, but not a separate primer. I guess I'd probably put on two coats of the undercoat/primer and sand the first one back pretty heavily. Its handy because it means you can sand back heavily for a better finish without worrying about going back to wood on the high spots on the first coat.