Hi there, 

I'm new to this so bear with me............

I have a brand new bonnet that I want to use as the template for making a carbon fibre one. The bonnet is in its black primer factory finish ready to be painted.

My question is what would be the best medium to coat it with now to be able to use is as a template. It will obviously need something that can be polished and then have the mould release agent applied to it. My reason for asking is so I know the best practice. 

I have time to let the product gas off, so I'm thinking along the lines of filler primer, sand back flat, then a 2k clear coat wet sand and polish?

I'll be going with a resin infusion part I think, so I'll make the mould from the Uni-mould system stuff.

Am I somewhere close?

Many thanks in advance, Byron.

That is correct as the 2k paints once fully baked off and cured have virtually zero solvent content and hence are very unlikely to cause sticking issues when making the mould.


Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant

Then...... Easy-lease followed by some wax as release agent as per the pattern making video?