Nothing like a makeover to cheer you up :)

[Omaroo]

I love our 8" Newt. It's not the biggest, is out-done by our SCT by a country mile when it comes to light gathering - but it travels very well and is a great field scope. It was just that the travelling has taken its toll on the paintwork. The SkyWatcher blue wasn't a favourite colour of mine anyhow, so I decided to give it a new paint job. I went with an "Antique White" PlastiCote spray can. After disassembling the scope for the paint job and reassembling - collimation was spot-on again, as per usual. Just lucky there.....

Anyhoo - Before and after. A much cleaner look, no?

[toetoe]

Top job on the re paint, looks great and brand new again. Mean looking guard dog you have.;)

[Astroman]

Hey that looks like my 8" New now :) I agree they look better in whit than ugly blue. Now if only Meade had stuck with White :)

[rmcpb]

Does it ever stop??

As well as building the new scope and the mount now I have to repaint my trusty 8"!! Its looking really well used and that job is brilliant.

[Omaroo]

Thanks ToeToe :)

The dog is called "Chops" - and she ain't called that for nothing....... :P She's my telescope guard. Grrr.... !

[Omaroo]

thanks all :)

If you ever want to paint your scope, I can't recommend the paint I used highly enough. All I needed to do was to lightly buff the old paint with some steel wool and then I cleaned it off with metho. The paint went on super-smoothly from about 30cm in long sweeping strokes from end to end of the tube. The great thing about the PlastiCote is that you don't have to wait between coats. As I made my way around the tube it was nearly tack-dry when I got back to where I'd started. The whole thing took three coats in one continuous go and not one single drip or flow mark resulted. Sensational paint. Dry to touch in 30 minutes and ready to reassemble in two hours.

Bigger picture: http://www.omaroo.net/albums/album34/007_G.jpg

[matt]

Hey! That looks fantastic:eyepop:

Now I want you to sell it back to me:lol:

[ving]

what do they call that white? meade white? :)

nice job chris :)

[Omaroo]

No worries.... but it's your turn to come to Sydney!

LOL!:D

[astronut]

That's a great paint job Chris!!
You'll have to be the renno King of M.A.S.:lol: :lol:
I'm very partial to an all white tube, there's just nothing quite like it.:thumbsup:

[Omaroo]

Cheers John - I'll bring it along this evening.......along with its new Crayford focusser :)

[ving]

hey guys, the public night is on tonight at tha domes isnt it?
might pop in after work if its not too late :)

[Omaroo]

Yep :) We'll be there at 7:15 (going early so that we can find them).

Cheers
Chris

[Omaroo]

Takahashi White? :P

[Ric]

Hi Chris, great paint job, very professional looking.
Love the eyes on Chops or should I say the "Hound of the Baskervilles" :scared:

cheers

[Omaroo]

Thanks Ric :)

hehe.. Chops is really a robot dog. I'd just taken her off charge prior to that shot.:lol:

[Ric]

The robot dog from "Wallace & Grommit" :D

cheers

[GrahamL]

Do any of you find white a hassle with light reflecting off it ?
I'm thinking of painting the last foot of mine a flat black
while the backyard isn't exactly the best place to view from the odd bit of stray light that catches the white tube on occasion has a habbit of bouncing straight into my eye .

nice paint job btw :)

[ballaratdragons]

Now it looks . . . errr . . . Scientific!

[jjjnettie]

Great job, looks more professional now.

[Starkler]

Looks good!

I dont know about others but I really find Skywatcher blue to be a turn off.

[ballaratdragons]

I agree Geoff. It's like it's aneamic (sp?).

[matt]

I'm really not too partial to it myself. As Ken says, it looks a little washed out. Kinda powder-blue IYKWIM?

To be honest, I'm not a big fan of even the gold paint on their Pro Series scopes.

but that's just me:D

[Harb]

I still think they should be all white..................it kinda makes em look more scientific I recon !! ;)