I sanded this ply box and tried to stain it with a grey and a black and it looks like trash. This is a box my little kids will ride in on the front of a cargo bike.

So since a stain won’t work, I figure I’ll primer it in a few days once the stain dries. Then I thinking a white lacquer through an older 2 stage capspray hvlp. I could just thin down gloss ultra pure white behr latex.

what would be a could white to use? Latex? Lacquer? Something else?

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