Painting Foils

I'm in the process of refurbishing my foils and I've got to the tricky bit - painting them and getting a good finish.

I painted the undercoat on with a roller then a brush to get rid of the 'orange-peal' effect left by the roller. I've always painted foils by hanging them up by the pivot hole but they swing around and it's a complete pain. Before I get to the final undercoat and the topcoat I'd like to come up with a better method.

I guess I could paint one side at a time on a flat surface but it'll take twice as long and I'm always worried the paint shrinking might make the foils warp.

Any ideas?

car primer spary paint from halfords is the best for foils, thin layers, build a few up, finish is reasonable, if you want it uber-smoothe then use turtlewax or similar afterwards, should look pretty slick after that. 

I've only ever used car primer on my foils

terraslazer :  did u ever get round to getting a design on you daggerboard?

For a really good job on a foil you're going to be sanding all the top surface off to get down to a burnished finish anyway, so I would have thought that the roller and brush would be plenty good enough.

For support I suggest you screw a wooden block to the end of the foil and clamp that in a workmate or whatever, and finish the end and screw holes separately.

I've almost always used two pot poly, but I know pros who use neat epoxy with or without white pigment in it.

Foil building the Cherub way