This has been gone over many, many times, and very fruitfully. You want to learn how to use search. So, do the following (the first of which, unfortunately, takes you off of this posting):
- Click on the link to the Stunthanger forum that is just above this post on the left. It says "stunthanger.com".
- In the upper right corner of your screen, there's a search bar -- see the picture
- Type +dope +thinner in the search bar -- this looks for all posts that have BOTH "dope" and "thinner" in them
- Click the "search" button
- Read. And read, and read, and read -- there's lots of good stuff
If it comes to painting, I always listen to Randy Powell. Randy tells me that I should always listen to Mark Scarborough and do whatever he says. Mark tells me that Billy Byles knows way more than he does about painting airplanes. So, listen to me, and if Billy says something, he's right.
Sparky, if you're out there, I know that this forum runs on software you didn't write, but if it were possible to have links to searches it would be very helpful for questions like this one.