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by **Transit-Tricky** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:37 pm

Well, even without Sam around today, I did get some more paint on the bus.

Main body colour: Deep purple (headbanger)

Some colour coding going on here...

I've marked out where the colours are to go in pencil:

The top band of the rainbow is violet:

That's all for now. If the weather stays good, I may get 2/3 more colours on tomorrow. Thanks for looking... TT

by **transitgeoff** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:45 pm

madmark wrote::shock: well sam is very hand there maybe fred could take a leaf out of her book!
its comeing on a treat!

yeh maybe she will hang up the brush and put down the dulux :lol:

by **stevo** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:21 pm

Thats looks the dogs mate, id be tempted to do it all in purple after seing how nice that purple looks.

by **djswampy** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:12 pm

What is it you are doing to the plastic to help the paint stick?

by **snap-on** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:20 pm

Plastic primer :wink:

by **djswampy** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:22 pm

Just spray over the plastic primer with normal paint?

by **snap-on** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:23 pm

How I done it was plastic primer white primer then top coat

by **djswampy** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:27 pm

Cheers. I did wonder how it was done.

Tricky, when is your plan for its finishing date?

by **dangeeeeerousss** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:37 pm

i only use the white primer if its a bright colour im going to put on and i want its full colour like yellow colours like that as ive noticed the grey primer doesnt show off the colour to its full potential
dont forget to go over the bumpers with wet and dry before applying the plastic primer

sorry for butting in there
looks like your getting on better than me at the minute doing a top job! :wink:

by **snap-on** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:01 pm

Grey primers I tend to use with the darker colours Black, Blues, Greens, etc. I sprayed Gold on my bumper end caps using plastic primer then white primer then gold and laquer.

by **dangeeeeerousss** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:16 pm

nice one snap on think we shed a bit of light on that one unless youve experimented alot of people wont know this i know quite a lot of people who thought primer only comes in grey
but if you know nothing about it and your just starting out the info is handy to know

i think we need more pics of merlin its my turn to hound for pics :lol:

by **djswampy** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:25 pm

certainly useful to me. I've seen others do it on here and am keen to try it out. I think body colour mirrors and bumpers look better than standard grey or black.
Tricky's colour scheme has also inspired me. hmmm...

by **Transit-Tricky** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:41 am

djswampy wrote:Tricky's colour scheme has also inspired me. hmmm...

Oh No! Not another nutter from Essex :lol:

By the way, what's been said here about the bumpers is spot on.
1. Plastic Primer
2. White celly primer
3. Celly topcoats

The back bumper will be red of course.

Wasn't sure about the purple, but when it went on, the whole family said "I REALLY like that colour"

TT

by **djswampy** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:21 am

Yup, another Essex boy here. I really want to get into spraying. I would love to respray my van something different and eye catching. I am going to have to think hard about a design though.
Keep up the good work and are you going to the London and eastern area meet in Hatfield Peveral on the 15th of July? At the rate your going the van should be finished painting and it would be great to see it.
Well done.