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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Piers[/i] [br]Hi all. I'm (still) working on my engine bay. Some may recall that it was once covered in thick black paint. I'm at a stage where I've given a good once-over with heavy-grit paper to remove all the black paint that was on there before, and I've achieved a very smooth result in one experimental patch with some wetted fine-grit paper. However, the bay is scratched and dented enough taht I'll have to do some repairs/filling, and after the sanding there are certain areas where bare fibreglass is showing. So it looks like I'll have to sand throughly, and then paint the engine bay. How then to achieve a good finish? I'm entirely new to this so feel free to speak in basic terms. Need one sand right down to bare fibreglass across the whole engine bay, or simply achieve a roughly uniform key? Would you sand in between multiple coats? And varnish after? Thanks for any tips. [img]http://www.normanboats.net/snitz_forum/upload/Piers/202192213648_Engine-bay.jpg[/img] [/quote]   Click here to attach a photo to your post   Check here to include your profile signature.