amazing what a bit of paint can do
‘Cause why should OzzyC and Greg have all the fun… ;-)
I’ve been putting in some serious sander time over the past couple of months and finally managed to get the hull to an acceptable state of fairness. On Friday, I managed to sneak away from the office to sand the “sealer coat” of epoxy I’d applied the previous weekend as well as prep the hull for priming. And yesterday I began spraying the VG23 in the hayloft with the first coat of System Three’s WR-155 primer.
After spraying the first cup I decided to try just rolling it on as I was having some spitting problems with the paint gun that I couldn’t solve. Having never used a spray gun before I was a little nervous about getting good results so I’d made sure to have rolling equipment on hand as a “backup”. In the end, I’m actually impressed with how the primer rolls out and plan to finish priming with a roller. Though I’d like to figure out the problems I was having with the gun too - rolling may work for the primer but I’m not sure about the top coat yet…
For some reason a few pigeons have chosen the last couple of weeks to begin overnighting in the hayloft, leaving a bit of mess on the hull for me to clean up before working. Before heading back to the city last night I pulled a tarp over the hull to keep the new paint from being damaged (you can see it lying to the left of the hull in the photo above). The primer was no longer tacky by the time the tarp was pulled over the hull but of course it was still pretty soft. I had a nightmare last night of the tarp becoming glued to the hull. Fingers crossed.
I’ve added a few more photos to the photoviewer too.
