“My job was as a painter for Ortomarine, preping and painting new electric narrow boats, now semi retired but keeping my hand in where I can. I have now painted 2 fibreglass bodied cars with amazing results. 2 ltrs of epiphanes (trade name) enamel paint and 1ltr of thinners, some mixing cups and one top of the range paint brush (2″ purdy brush) all bought from ebay. Without going into to much detail: Start by removing the original paint with 150mm orbital sander 240 grit and 400 grit until smooth. Apply 2 coats of primer, apply 2 coats of undercoat (mixed gloss & primer) apply 1 coat of gloss and the flatten paint, apply finish coat of gloss. For this car, I sanded off the original silver / grey paint, not back to the fibreglass though, as the layers of paint will base as undercoats. Having removed the top coat and flattened the original paint, I then painted 2 coats of primer, aloud to dry until the next day where upon I painted two coats of primer mixed with the gloss paint I intended to use as the final colour, the mix was aproxx 50/50 then aloud to dry until the next day where I painted the gloss colour mixed with thinners, this was to be my sacrificial coat, aloud to dry and then using the orbital sander with a 400 grit paper the paint was flatted back to a nice even state, this would then be the base for my finish gloss coat.Enamel paint is thick and is hard wearing once dry is super shiney, dries very quickly. 2lts of Epifanes yacht enamel paint (light blue) (around £62) 1ltr of epifanes brush thinners. 1ltr standard tin of grey primer. 2″ brush made by purdey. Tack cloths & masking tape. 1ltr yellow for the bib. Total cost of around £200.
Graham Maggs”.