Plugging along

[Cuda]

I started redoing this Formula 20 SC over two years ago. It's just hard to find time to work on it. Like today, it was a perfect day for boating, but I decided to start on the paint.

Understand, before today, I'd never held a paint gun in my hand.

Taped and papered, ready to shoot the primer.

[Cuda]

I had to install a dryer inline for my compressor. That required three trips to Home Depot.

[Cuda]

The compressor also required some modifications. Seems the genuises that designed it put the handle right where the dryer needed to be. A four inch angle cut grinder with a diamond wheel cured that. I don't need no stinkin' handle.

[Cuda]

That was a lot of grunt work for twenty minutes of fun! It actually came out better than I thought it would. No runs, no drips, and no errors. I'll sand it in the morning and shoot the paint.

[Cuda]

Shot the yellow today.

[Cuda]

Debbie checking my handiwork.

[JimG205]

Joe-Looks great-the trick to a great paint job is the prep.What paint did you shoot it with?Looks like there's some clear mixed in?? How's the minx? Regards,Jim

[MOP]

Cuda that is quite an achievement I know you have to be feeling pretty damn good! It rates a big Bravo!

Phil

[Brad Lyon]

Very nice! Great color as well, love that yellow.

Brad

[Cuda]

Thanks guys. The paint is Interlux Brightsides that you buy at Boater's World and the like. I've had some people tell me I may have trouble with it "lifting" or the stripes "biting" using this paint because it doesn't have a catalyst mixed in it. Well, I don't even know what that means, so I'll just trudge blindly on and do the best I can.

What I'm trying to do is make it look like my 302. I want matching Formulas. ;)

[Cuda]

I hope I'm better with a paint gun than I am with the paint program. :)