I'm making this for Christine's mini:
1: mask up the area with several layers of masking tape. You might find that using a degreaser on plastic areas is needed, especially if any plastic shine products have been used:
2: Before you get mixing any resin, cut your fibreglass sheets to size and test fit them.
3: Mix your resin. Only mix as much as you can use before it will start to cure. You need to be very careful to use the correct measurements. Too much hardener will prevent it from curing, to little the same.
4: Pour some of the resin on the sheet and use a very cheap paintbrush to stipple the resin. Don't try brushing, you will just pull all of the glass mat apart. For curves just put a bit more resin on and keep stippling, it will eventually conform shape.
5: When you put new layers of mat over previous bits, keep stippling until it looks like it is part of the rest and not an individual sheet.
As you can see in this picture, even though there are several layers, it all looks as one:
It currently has about 3 layers, 4 round the edges. Some guides say you should have 5, I don't think that will be needed, since this one will be ported.
That's it for now, since the resin is currently curing and further updates will be weather dependant (and lazy dependant
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