Painting Fiberglass Repair?

Question

Our RV has some small damage to the exterior fiberglass that we I repaired with a fiberglass repair kit. No leakake, but off color. I would like to paint a small design over the damaged area to give it a more professional look. Is there an appropriate way to paint over a fibeglass repair (it is a brown color and our RV is white).

Answer 1

Use epoxy or enamel paints. Depending on the materials used in your repair kit, there's a good chance that latex will not stick (at least, not for long). Also, sand the area to be painted first, to rough it up for good paint adhesion.

You could tape off the area outside the area to be painted in the shape (a circle?) of the area to be painted, sand the target area with some fine grit (you just want to rough it up well, not remove more than the finish), paint it with a background color (so all of the roughened area is protected) then apply the design you've come up with....