We stirred the paint in its one litre can. We added
about a half a cup of water. The paint as it comes is
fairly viscous and we felt that with the wind as it was
it might other wise become too viscous, too quickly
while working it.
Once it was good and runny, we poured into two
roughly 400ml baked bean cans. We stirred in to them
about 40 drips of ‘cross linker’, a critical step in the
system for achieving Aquacote’s legendary hard yet
flexible finish.
When rolling with Aquacote, by the time you have
painted from the boat’s pointy end to the blunt end,
you will probably be okay to start with the next coat.
In warmer weather you can even sand within an hour
of coating, if that’s needed. This time of course it was
the pointy end to the pointy end, and we did not need
to sand between coats.
A good job, reliably and frequently spoiled by using
paint trays.
What to do, what to do?
Easy! Another StrayDog discovery.
We save up offcuts of ply around 300 x 200 or
something like that to make Aquacote palettes. We
pour from the can as required and roll our paint before
it flows off the edge of the palette.
Mostly.
I think it was David that got a bit slack and forgot it
was just a flat palette, without sides. He managed
to take home a nice white Aquacote sock, see pic.
below.When rolling with
Aquacote, by the time
you have painted from
the boat’s pointy end to
the blunt end, you will
probably be okay to
start with the next coat
Grant started rolling on one side, and David, using
a cheap brush pre-painted anywhere that was
inconvenient for the roller, such as the tight curves
of the plank land EGlue fillets, and the similar filleted
juncture between the keel (deadwood) and the
planking.
We did not use paint trays. Since Aquacote in wet
film form cures very quickly, splashes become film
become loose on the side of the tray, and become
VERY annoying, falling back into the mix, and then
onto the unsuspecting roller and then onto the job!
Note David’s smile of ‘OH NO!’ revelation! Palette MUST be held
more or less level, or else you will get paint, as David Hinves found
out, in your sock! First coat, note shadows. Subsequent thin coats
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