please help - just purchased a shetland - how to go about gelcoating

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there's some good after built paints made for this - one I know of is called steel cote its a self flowing paint so you don't need sand out all the Orange peel you can spay it brush it roll it with fome rollers works great have use it bunch times theirs others too that are self flowing hence no need to spend time sanding it