Winter camper respray.

as long as they don't use the shed they'll be ok, or they stop laying......

 

Unmasking this morning


Put the battery on charge and get the drivers seat back in then I can move it in and out to paint the doors and poptop.

 

Is it real gold

 

Wowzers! You have it nailed, looking great. You're almost there.

 

looking good.
both finished soon so you'll have 1 each....

 

you made a lovely job of that hats of

 

All day to prep the poptop

Those vents were silicone sealed , scraped it off , rubbed it down, scrubbed it with thinners, changed the water, chucked the paper, rubbed down some more with fresh w&d, panel wiped it, primered it.
Fish eyes everywhere
Let it dry did it all again, still got a couple of small ones but managed to get it right in the end,

I can topcoat it in the morning now

 

They are actually the same colour
Just the cab doors to do now then its rebuild time

 

Just one more door to do

 

all looks strangely familiar!! well done!!

 

Just been asked to do wife's colleagues wedding on the 4th March with the camper should make me get my finger out !

 

oh I hope your shed is nice and dry! I started getting blooming problems after a couple of rainy days in the summer... was fairly humid though

 

Simple, just tell them it may not be complete in time and they'll make other arrangements.

 

I've said I'll know better in a fortnight how it's going, looking like I've got myself a new workshop 3 times the size which will help

 

Lucky bugger

Id give my right bollock to have somewhere dry to work on the bus

 

Well I'm not doing the wedding
Moved workshops now so back on it, albeit with little miss sunshine to split my time!

Roof painted.


Doors back on

Inside of slider painted.
Just got the track covers and front grill to paint now.
Grill body colour or white?

 

I'm not criticising, but wondering why your paint looks so matt.
You have to put cellulose paint on quite wet as you go, same for mix-up rattle cans, then it comes out shiney.
If you 2-pack, it stay wet for long enough to add some more to dry bits, but cellulose flashes off very quickly.
Bit late now I know... have fun polishing it up, it won't be hard.
I learned this after rattle canning a whole bus apart from one panel (i ran out of paint) It looked matt but did polish up. After i moved to the workshop I was talking to a painter who suggested the above so I laid it on thicker on the last panel and it came out glossy.

 

Yes you're right, some bits are shineyer than others,the whole thing has a good coating of dust on at the moment but it will polish up oK.
It was a bitch spraying in the old place, hard to heat and not enough room, things can only get better

 

The one I rattle canned was on the drive in the winter under a Jewsons tarp, heating up the panels a bit with a paint stripper gun and spraying between gusts. That probably didn't help and the last panel that came out shiney was done indoors so yes it all adds up. I did spot some shiney bits on yours which is what prompted me to post.

 

My fav bus to pass through the garage was same colour as yours, very slightly ratty and deliberately painted satin/matt like faded paint. It looked really really good IMO and very like yours in this pic. Maybe leave it.