"After" and "Before" shots of the front half of ETAK as seen from the first spreaders. Not showing is the gray primer that is under the first coat of the white primer. It was hot working on that gray in the sun! It also kicked off the white quite quickly giving me precious little time to even the coat out. In the picture above, you can see it is a first coat where the roller has not had a second pass over it. The gray shows through quite well through this thin first coat. Subsequent coats will even out the white so it is uniform. This Z-Spar two part epoxy primer is excellent to work with (except for the fumes), and sands nicely once fully cured. The gray was actually the same paint; I just added some black tint to it. That dye is worse than Never-Sieze! If you just look at it, it gets on your hands, tools, clothing. Because I was not concerned about a match with the gray, each batch had a slightly different amount added to it, so the gray varied in darkness. We really looked like a botched Navy pain job!
What a lift it gave us both to see some paint on the old gal. All those weeks of sanding, filling, sanding, and more filling were getting to us. So putting a bit of color on to hide the body work sure did lift our spirits. Here are some other photos taken during the painting spree:
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Nice job! You can really see the difference.
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