Gel Coat Prep

You're unbelievable. I bet you'll be running around in it 4th of July.

sanity wrote: skinaut wrote: The yuk yel is going to look great. I am glad you stuck with it. At this rate you will be done in time for the regatta! Wouldn't that be great? One more circle to run in. That's a wonderful idea with the period suits and all. I don't know if everyone would appreciate that or not? I know the antique boat "people" would. First regatta meeting is Thursday. Here we go. Chelle'

if they don't get it then to bad for them, everyone that does would get a kick out of it.
I can see us after a couple adult beverages and the drivers safety meeting in the morning.
Blinky would announce (white skippers cap on and a pipe clinched between his teeth) "Say Buffy, let's take the kids for a ski!"

WOW...

I can't imagine having to sell that.

My mustang is a softer tannish/yellow. Can't think of another way to describe the color. "Yuckytan" Really, I love it now.

Riley wrote: This site does something to your mind. Some of these colors I used to hate. Couldn't figure out why anyone would do that to a boat. Now I like them all.

Bruce,
That is sooo funny. I really disliked the yuckytan. You could ask anyone on the site and/or anyone that knows me and they would agree. "That" was the worst color that mustang could have been! Then I started removing the paint. Still hated it. It wasn't till it was almost all yuckytan. It began feeling like a "warm" and inviting color.
Love it now!

The seafoam is a nice color. I always liked it.

If you think about it, alot of the cc boat colors were the colors popular in homes too during that period.

CC didn't have any bright colors then did they? Seems like they were all the warmer, faded colors.

OK Bruce, I just edited that post because that was not a very good reference.
True...but not a good reference.
Chelle'

Bruce,

In the 70's, my parents living room was dark green carpet and gold furniture.

skinaut wrote: I can see us after a couple adult beverages and the drivers safety meeting in the morning.

LOL...that was a funny meeting. Speaking of meetings, they rescheduled the regatta meeting for next Thursday. Too cold?! Kids have tomorrow off from school too.

sanity wrote: Bruce, In the 70's, my parents living room was dark green carpet and gold furniture.

We had green & orange.

Steve,

That looks like a few of my threads....decisions, decisions, decisions...

Michelle

hmmm...I suppose I will worry about what color to make the barracuda ...later

that looks like a basecoat clearcoat formula, who is mixing it into the Gel? Im not familier with mixing color into gels. i was just curious if they mixed basecoat into the gel for color. what will a gallon end up costing you?

if it was base i wish i wouldve known, we just switched paint company's from Akzo Noble to Dupont, and sent back our mix station with all the tints to make base, we mixed about 10 different colors before they took the system back, i actually mixed a gallon of silver to paint tranny's, a gallon of base has to be 200.00 300.00, i would think if not more

eric lavine wrote: that looks like a basecoat clearcoat formula, who is mixing it into the Gel? Im not familier with mixing color into gels. i was just curious if they mixed basecoat into the gel for color.

Eric,
You missed what Michelle is doing. She had a friend match the color with paint because it's easier. She's then going to sent a painted panel to one of the gel manufacturers to match it. This way, she also doesn't need to cut a section of her deck with the existing color gel on it to send to them. It's was a great idea to come up with the painted match!!!

Good Sunday Steeler Morning, LOL. We made it to Youngstown yesterday and turned around because of the weather. So, no boat show to talk about.

Eric, thank you. That was very kind. Pete is correct, I "painted" a piece that is being sent for a gel match.

I'm not sure what the tints are that they use in gel, although I know they have a clear based gel (transparent) and a white gel. Of course I will ask those questions and pass on what I find out.

The base formula in paint is to give them an idea of the colors required to match. The tints I've seen in gel look to be brighter - basic colors than the many paints on the shelf at the body shop. I'm sure they have a secret stash that we can't see.

We now have the yuckytan codes for auto paint and I might just paint the powder room yuckytan, so we'll have the codes for latex. I hope minicraft passes the code on for the gel. I will be calling them tomorrow and sending out the "painted" piece.

Any idea where or if I can rent a mask? Would the masks from the fire department work? I have a few connections there.....

A few more weeks before gel coat goes on. I want to make sure everything is perfectly wet sanded smooth and the few minor repairs are made. Plus, I have to wait on the gel coat and have the masks here for us. Tyvex suits are already on the shelf and a huge roll of plastic is ready for the walls. My instructor is loving this as much as I am. I'm just the grasshopper, but I think I'm doing pretty well. I even had a job offer. My favorite things to do with the resto so far are fiberglass; making repairs and glassing the stringers in - love it! And I like wet sanding till everything is smooth.... enjoyed mixing the colors in the little lab to come up with the yuckytan. Who would have thought there was blue in there? And I love to paint.

Chelle'