{"id":12147,"date":"2016-10-17T15:56:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12147"},"modified":"2016-10-18T08:49:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T07:49:54","slug":"lovely-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/lovely-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovely job!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or at least, it will be. I drove across to Brico Depot at Trelissac to find something to coat or paint the Weedhopper’s prop with. I decided in the end to do a proper job by rubbing it all down as I did 56NE’s, but without stripping the old coating off this time, to get a totally uniform finish.<\/p>\n

After searching around I came across a small area hidden away among all the ‘environmentally friendly’, water-based varnishes that quite frankly are really only good for lightly used indoor surfaces, containing a range of proper white spirit based products branded Xylophene Color. These looked promising and up on the top shelf I spotted ‘Vernis Ext\u00e9rieur Marin’, a very high resistance, uncoloured, high gloss marine varnish. <\/p>\n

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It’s described as having ‘reinforced impermeability’ and protection against UV bleaching so I thought it was worth buying and giving it a go. And after just the first coat, I’m not at all disappointed.<\/p>\n

First I gave the whole prop a rub over with an abrasive sponge to give it a uniform unglossy surface and after making sure that I’d cleaned all of the dust off, applied the first coat of this varnish. The result is stunning! It’s given a fantastic, high gloss finish with absolutely no brush marks, so in most respects, it resembles what was the prop’s original finish. And that I’m extremely delighted with.<\/p>\n

I’m going to give it a second coat before masking off the tips for painting, as I did with 56NE’s prop, and then I’ll probably apply two more so the prop will end up with a thick, highly protective, high gloss finish.<\/p>\n

The only problem is that you have to leave 12 hours between coats and a further 24 hours for it to be fully cured, so the whole job is going to take two or three days. But I think that the final result will be well worth waiting for \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or at least, it will be. I drove across to Brico Depot at Trelissac to find something to coat or paint the Weedhopper’s prop with. I decided in the end to do a proper job by rubbing it all down as I did 56NE’s, but without stripping the old coating off this time, to get … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12147"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12171,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12147\/revisions\/12171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}