Diegoboy's Stretch Renegade rigger

[CornelP]

One thing to improve the looks: thin line between colors will help a lot. Next time do not use standard masking tape, get some Tamiya tape, it will give you crisp lines.
A few ways to do the stripes: hand/brush (if you have steady hands), PAINT MARKER (if you do not have steady hands, just like me), two parallel lines with masking tape and paint marker in between (if your hands are all over the place...)
BUT the clear sure helps...

[Diegoboy]

One more pic

[Diegoboy]

With the bad time I had clearing another hull. I decided not to clear this one... YET

[Diegoboy]

Don't laugh...

[CornelP]

Sand it level, apply a coat of polyester sandable primer. This will seal everything underneath...
LET IT DRY for a good day, sand/paint/clear...

[Meniscus]

Diego, Let me know if you want me to pickup some other paint for you. Hopefully that motor will be in soon for you to try.

[Diegoboy]

This looked like croc skin, I used a paint stripper, which took off the blue, (and some yellow) then cleaned, sanded, and sprayed more primer. Primer immediately began to "crock skin" on me again. #$%^&*(
I don't think clear will fix this mess.

[sailr]

I can lay on what looks like a beautiful paint job til it dries. Haha. A good coat of clear normally perks it up though.

[HOTWATER]

I say that everytime I go to paint a new build (and when I go to work every day!) LOL!! J/K! There are some days that I wish I was not a Painting Contractor though...

-Kent

[Diegoboy]

It's sad to realize that I cannot paint worth a @#$%^&

[HOTWATER]

I'm sooooooooooo close to giving up.
Look for a freebie renegade in the near future, if I don't step on it first.

NOOO!...Don't do that!! You are the man right now and everybody is hoping to get some good feedback on this build!!!!

Let the paint cure for a couple of days and come back to it later and then start sanding it back down a bit. You will get there...you can't give up now!!

-Kent

[sailr]

Regular Krylon is strictly enamel based. "Fusion" has some solvents in it to get it to bond to plastic which are NOT compatible with regular Krylon. On the other hand, I just painted a boat where I started with Fusion and then used regular Krylon for the second color. No problem.

BUMMER!

FYI
Yellow krylon doesn't sit well when sprayed over with krylon "fusion" blue. I knew better, but Fusion was the only blue I had.
Gotta strip the blue and try again. I hope I don't have to strip the yellow too.

[Diegoboy]

I'm sooooooooooo close to giving up.
Look for a freebie renegade in the near future, if I don't step on it first.

[Diegoboy]

I despise painting.

[Diegoboy]

No problem guys!