LF - just seen your comment! 😆

Unfortunately not, as it's quite big and not central.

On one of my other builds I do have a small defect in the deck planking and I am going to put a deck fitting there.

Blimey LazyFerret that is unfortunate and a right rigmarole to get right.

That's one problem I haven't had, issues between paint and varnish, though at any intersection I do the paint first and then the varnish so that I'm not painting over varnish.

Where I do get varnish onto the paint I haven't had any reaction. Perhaps because as well as using International paints I mainly use varnish by them as well?

Can't you put "feature" over the blemish like spot lights, or life belt etc?

Looks like I'm not the only one suffering grief from painting then. Some folks can get beautiful hand-painted finishes. I suppose that unless you go to the lengths that some do, like enclosures with air extraction, it's always going to be a bit of a lottery.

I put another coat on the Faun roof and after leaving overnight contemplated putting more on, but thought no, I'm wasting my time. Trouble is the "defect" is in the middle of the roof and the eye is easily drawn to it. As I said before the base for the enamel or gloss has to be as good and uniform as you can get it.

So I've just rubbed it down and applied the first coat of primer-undercoat. No real rush to do it but I was keen to get the mahogany strips to the sides put on.

Pity really, as apart from the defect and what I think are inclusions (don't remember having such problems before), the finish was lovely and glossy with very few brush marks. I've found that you have to get the consistency just right for this, almost too runny.

International Paints are lovely to put on (when things go right!) and once cured give a lovely and durable finish. They should be good given the price!

I ended up with a pretty good finish on my River Cruiser though I did have some grief with the blue on the cabin sides/coamings. There needs to some blue on the hull - I'll do it one day!

I've never had any luck with a paintbrush, other than painting window frames and skirting boards in the various houses I've lived in.

For my model boats, I use acrylic paint in spray cans, preferably outside and on a calm, warm day. One or two of my current builds will hopefully be ready by the spring, so I can spray them outside.

I hand painted my fast patrol launch in matt paints - following a tip from another modeller who used to sell paint .

He told me that painting with a matt paint would give a much better finish that was a lot easier to achieve........and he was right!

Now I need to varnish it, but I still prefer to hand paint my Classic Model Power Boats with an oil based paint - maybe one day I will get it right - but for now - I still hate painting!

Bob.

The paint on my RAF Crash Tender reacted by forming a cracked finish in places. This is the reason there have been no updates, I put it on the shelf until I can motivate myself to stripping it and starting again.

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I was having problems where varnish meets paint on the hull, as the varnish does not like paint over it, & the paint won't dry with varnish over it. Basically after 2 coats of varnish and 2 coats of paint done over a week, I had a perfect finish which I was very happy with, but about 3 days after the final coat it started to react... after a lot of research, I found I had to paint the bottom of the hull, leave it 6 weeks, then varnish down to the paint, then wait another 6 weeks to put a thin stripe along the join to cover any imperfections.

Happy now, but there was a lot of grumping when I had to strip it all back for the second time.

I did think of painting in the bathroom with the extract fan on, but for some reason this didn't go down well with my wife! 🤔 😀

Wow, I read this & thought I must have typed it without knowing. I feel your pain. I have a boat built by my dad many years ago, & I am renovating it from years of sitting in top of a cabinet. Its a Billings kit & unfortunately the wood had dried out so much, there are lots of splits in the hull. So after methodically rubbing it back to bare wood, sorting it out, I am going through the exact problems with painting. Thank you for making me no longer feel alone in this issue.