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me again, i almost forgot the best news of the year so far....i have a friend of a friend who i did some tv work for last year....ran into him today, got to talking about the boat, well, to get to point, he has been painting cars as a hobby for the last 8 years now....and offered to shoot the boat for free....whatever i want !
i just have to buy the paint and supplies...i think i want to go base/top.....5 coats base...10 coats clear...sound about right ?...has anyone repainted their checkmate, happy with results?...was it a pain ?....any suggestions ?
thanx, Bruce
 
me again, i almost forgot the best news of the year so far....i have a friend of a friend who i did some tv work for last year....ran into him today, got to talking about the boat, well, to get to point, he has been painting cars as a hobby for the last 8 years now....and offered to shoot the boat for free....whatever i want !
i just have to buy the paint and supplies...i think i want to go base/top.....5 coats base...10 coats clear...sound about right ?...has anyone repainted their checkmate, happy with results?...was it a pain ?....any suggestions ?
thanx, Bruce
 
Depending on the paint look to spend between $1200 on up to--well lets just say way up there.
On my little 16' trimate I am looking at about $1300 in just material.
 
i have worked in auto body shops for years do not use a base coat clear coat on a boat the clear will lift in a season or two shoot it with a single stage paint like utec. utec will hold up i painted my other boat seven years ago and it still looks new. im painting my enchanter next week with utec i will send pictures. well for now its miller time
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I've owned a bodyshop for 26 years. I do alot of custom paintjobs on the Liberator and Checkmate boats I sell. I always use basecoat clearcoat and NEVER have a failure. Use only three coats of a high-solids clear. That will be plenty thick. You can check out some of my boat paint work on my websight. Click on "CUSTOM PAINT JOBS" when you get to it. It's http://liberatorfl.tripod.com
 
wow nice work i will have to pick your brain as to what ive done wrong in the past with base coat clear coat im painting my enchanter this weekend im going to use omni for this one. again nice work!
 
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