Great looking image!

> Ed, I too asked your question, here is the answer I got.
> http://www.cyberis.net/~innercom/Canoe/quest13.html BTW be carefull/test
> of the compatibility of the paint and varnish. I did not have a local
> source for sign painters enamel, so I used testors model paint for a
> design on a paddle (as reccomended by a sign painter:). After I had sanded
> it lightly I varnished, one half I went over quickly and left alone, the
> other I went over one too many times, the varnish had dissolved the paint
> and it smeared. I sanded it off, repainted with a oil based paint and it
> was fine. If I had left it alone sooner it would have been fine and not
> smeared, and after the 1st coat of varnish, the model paint was fine. But
> better a small design on a paddle smear than a large one on the boat....

> Good luck, let us see how it turns out

> Bart