Painting - what colour etc.?? discuss it all in this thread!

[Luke]

we need to get a few things sorted with the paint

i'll admit this isnt my area of expertese i've done a few resprays over the years but nothing to the standard we need

i can have a word with a mate who works at a paint supplier see if we can get a good deal (but anyone else is welcome to do this too - be nice if we could get some donated free)- but what paint - 2k celly etc all stuff i dont know much about

it's going to be tight getting it done in time, ive spoke to a few painters and they agree its possable - we'll be spraying it saturday night building it back up sunday viewtopic.php?f=63&t=73887 we may need to come back to it to do the final work when its fully cured

we need volenteers to actually spray it - i'm told we'd proberbly need more than 1 man spraying at the same time

also we need to decide on a colour - i know from experiance white hides imperfections better - it would need to be perfect to be black but theres so many white vans a unique colour would be nice

discuss................................

[rover]

It will have to be 2K whatever the colour, we need it to shine straight out of the tin!

I'd like to see it in Focus ST orange personally, but then I'm not painting it

[mealic]

I thought that we had an offer of paint some time ago.Personally I would like to see it painted in a nce Flip-Flop,purple base maybe? But ,I`m not painting it either.Sure the guys out there will know and do their best to get something different.

[redcube]

I like Rover choice of Focus ST orange

[transitgeoff]

white id say unless you want it to look sh*t

[ake]

I reckon white would look pretty good as well

[rover]

white id say unless you want it to look sh*t

You are the man who knows about these things Geoff , us mere mortals are just dreamers when it comes to bodywork finishing If white is gona hide any imperfections then I think we have little choice

[GPM01]

white id say unless you want it to look sh*t

I agree The problem is we don't have the time to get the body perfect for a dark or trick colour

[Luke]

the other option is 2 tone - say do the lower half a different colour (that purple if snapon still has it) but i dont think we'd have time for that we'd have to mabe spray the lower on the sunday night

[transitgeoff]

2 tone with base and clear would be ok, but just remember the prep is everything... whatever the colour, and if you havent an oven you need plenty of drying time

[blue estate]

It will have to be 2K whatever the colour, we need it to shine straight out of the tin!

I'd like to see it in Focus ST orange personally, but then I'm not painting it

no focus rs lime green

[transitgeoff]

looks great on a brandnew frs

[MinorMatt]

If its not going to be white it needs to be a nice light colour - no way we can get it good enough for a mid - dark colour in the time avaliable.

I still think the 3rd axle idea is overly ambitious with regards to the bodywork, but i'm happy to run with it (now I have expressed my doubts).

[GPM01]

I still think the 3rd axle idea is overly ambitious with regards to the bodywork, but i'm happy to run with it (now I have expressed my doubts).[/quote]

It is ambitious I'll agree, but I reckon it's possible as long as we have a decent crew and work methodically. Plus, it's gonna look awesome

[Luke]

well thats 3 of us who think it's ambitious then

but it'll be worth it