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Marq,
Thanks for the great info. Can you be more specific on the Brightside primer? I looked on the net and found some marine stuff by Interlux. Is that what you had in mind? The red rust primer from Rustoleum is quite heavy. I posted a picture of the passenger door that I did with that.





Yes... the Brightside primer is made by Interlux... and you can buy it in light gray or a darker blue gray. I have no problem with the Rustoleum primer though...

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I want it to be as close to its original color so I am going with Rustoleum Hunter Green. That is the color that I have on the shell top. I completely stripped the hood and have one coat of rustoleum primer on it.





One nice thing about the Hunter Green is that you can add black to it to get it even darker if you wish. You would have to refer back to our previous discussions here on creating a color sample palette to do a little sample color mixing to figure out what ratio of Hunter Green to black you might need to add to get the 'perfect' matching color...


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I wet sanded it this afternoon and it is looking ok. I covered the bare spots with rattle can primer to protect it for the night. After reading your post, I think I will put another coat of primer on it tomorrow.





The one thing that leaves me a bit leery about the spray on aerosol primers is that I often wonder just how well they penetrate the subsurface and build up an even layer on the surface. Have you ever seen those aerosol can of 'artificial snow' that you spray on windows to give your house that 'Christmas' look of frost in the windows. Some folks also use that artificial canned snow directly on their Christmas tree. Well... I look on aerosol primer as being just like that crap. Half of the 'product' ends up in the air. Lots of the stuff loses its adhesion while being propelled through the air. And even when it lands on the target, it sometimes doesn't gain enough adhesion and just 'sticks' on the surface of the target ( and easily blown off by simply blowing at it or rubbing it with your hand or when the dog walks by and brushes against it.

The canned primer that you roll on goes on 100% with no loss into the air or on to the driveway. And as the added bonus you can cut it with the paint you are planning to use to help you get a head start on laying down the real color.

Since you are heading towards a hunter green... and you are using the Rustoleum 'brownish red' primer.... I would think that a nice black rustoleum paint mixed with the red oxide primer would provide a good color base to build the subsequent Hunter Green paint layers.

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