I've had a rather frustrating couple of days painting the hull of my Dean's Medea steam yacht. The bottom is Halford's red primer which is fine. The green boot topping is Tamiya acrylic which is OK as it goes on top of most things. The white topsides is Wilkinson's spray satin white which goes on quite well and gives a decent subdued sheen. The plan of action was to mask off the topsides and spray the bottom with red primer, then mask off the bottom and apply the white before finally painting the boot topping by hand. Of course the whole shebang went off the rails when I managed to get overspray followed by paint bleed (even using Tamiya masking tape) which meant lots of touching up and re touching up and of course the Tamiya acrylic doesn't like being overpainted etc. etc. :-\. Still, it now looks halfway decent as long as I don't get too close but I'm now wondering just how hard the white spray "enamel" will get and how long it will take. It's very similar to Plasticote but quite a bit cheaper (maybe not a good idea!). Also, should I wait for it all to dry properly and then apply Ronseal satin polyurethane varnish which I'm not too enthusiastic about as I don't want to risk a reaction with the existing finish and the varnish is likely to make the white topsides look a bit yellowish.
I am preparing some test pieces but any comments/advice would be welcome.