dashboard painting

Hey, there was a post a while ago, I've quoted the first post at the bottom, it states a primer mix can be used on dashes, could a regular spray-can primer work to the same purpose? What kinds would be reccomended? and help would be greatly appreciated, thanks all!

Craig McKee

Quote follows:

"I have done some searching and have found alot of people fiberglass their dashboards just to have a shiny look, and not actually manipulate it in any way. I have found one way to get the same result as FG without the hassles is to take a little dupont urethane primer, mix it with a little flex additive and spray liberally once the surface is prepped properly. This mixture provides a high build filler, taking out the texture in most dashes, and can be wet sanded and before final paint application to look like glass. I have found this is alot less time consuming than the fg application and wont give you the cheesy result of just painting the stock pieces. Hope this helps some of you."

Ok found it. Its for model cars and other plastics. It's called Tamiya. You can probely find it at a near by hobby shop.

well, I couldn't find that specific primer, so I bought a can of scratch filler/primer at Canadian Tire, and took a small piece of the dash to try this out. evidently it'll need about 5 billion coats before it's any semblance of smooth, although I may be going about it using the wrong method [get the piece, clean it, prime, wait to dry, prime again, do that a few times, lightly sand, prime and dry, etc]   I've decided to bondo the dash, if I have read enough, the following process should work, if anyone sees something wrong, please let me know

sand with 120 grit to get a bit of roguhness, and then go nuts with a heavy grit to scratch the heck out of it, dust to get rid of, well, dust, then bondo, sand, bondo, sand, primer, sand, repeate untill done. I'm assuming I should use Bondo-Glas, although someones opinio of using regular Bond body filler would be appreciated. As well to see if I have the right idea for bondoing the dash.

Thanks for any and all help!

Craig McKee