Paint Your Wagon - with a roller!

[gaz f]

Here finally is the finished article! (well the outside anyway )







The paintwork has been getting some very good comments with no one believing me when I say it was done with a 4" roller and a wee paint brush.

[CovKid]

Well....THATS going in the WIKI!

What was the RAL colour Gary?

[MarcJ123]

That looks great! Love the wheels!!

[gaz f]

CovKid... RAL 7035 Light Grey for the body.
RAL 9005 Jet Black for the roof and bumpers
RAL 3002 Carmine Red for the wheels. Rattle cans for them though.

I am honoured to be going in the WIKI. It's all your fault anyway...

Marc, Thats just standard wheels and tyres, painted red with JK whitewall flaps and JK 'baby moon' trims.

[sam_seed]

Found this...
http://mdmetric.com/tech/RALcolorchart.htm

Dunno if it's been posted before but thought it was handy to have names to the colours

Gary, van looks great. does the colour look like what you expected...? trying to pik a colour myself but can't make my damn mind up

[Cruz]

The colour on that chart looks nothing like my...............reseda green

[sam_seed]

Yeah...all the colour charts i've seen online have had different looking colours for codes. ye have to view them on a paper version to see them properly. For me it was more matching names to codes. I kept reading names of colours but could not match them up to any codes til I found this.

[CovKid]

You'll never get a match online unless you have a colour-corrected monitor. Only found CRT ones that can do that accurately enough. Thats mostly why I still run with one rather than modern flat screens. You can still buy them from a discount place in Wellingboro that clears computer equipment from corporates. Generally they'll have thousands of monitors but only usually two or three that are colour accrurate and those were well over £1k when new - £60 second hand, made for designers etc. Last three monitors I've had from them and very pleased with them. Therefore the colour chart matches my paint (5002) perfectly but for most people it will only be a vague indicator due to monitor deficiencies. However, putting names to RAL colours is very useful.

Proper colour charts are expensive - they were when I started my career in the print trade but with a colour accurate monitor you can get extremely close. Apart from that. ordering the basic chart from Rustoleum etc is the only solution unless you can get a good RAL chart from anywhere else. The best ones are those owned by professional paint spray shops. I've already put first dibs on a 28" CRT coming my way - heaven knows what it cost new - several thousand I imagine.

Also worth noting that photos of vans in specific RAL colours won't be accurate either since few digital cameras (unless high end) render colours spot on and you don't know what kind of post-processing has been used. For that reason, none of the photos in the WIKI or in this thread should be taken as gospel - they're a rough guide at best.

[sam_seed]

hey guys! Had a complete rethink(chicken out rather) and am now leaing towards white. Looked at the standard white but it looks a little too much like a transit for my liking. Thinking more of ral 9003 signal white. Only thing is when browsing the web shops all I see is the standard colours. Do I have to order in 9003 from somewhere special? Was kinda hoping to get painting this weekend. Prepping took a lot longer than I thought even on a van that had very little needing done to it.

Ta all!

I see the swear filter is at work on my ford model...

[CovKid]

Keep us posted on how you get on Sam.

[albertramsbottom]

Thanks Andy/CovKid It's working great just so long as it dunna rain on me!

Am moving onto the poptop now - once that's done I'll do the final flat and top coats on the cream/red lower parts

And dont forget those lovely Devon Stripes that I promised you and have just found. Im in the decal business now, so hopfully will be recreating all the old classic bus designs

Albert

PS they are in the post (well tomoz anyway)

[sam_seed]

ordering my paint tomorrow!!! some parts are going to have two different colours meeting (ala two tone) albeit over one of the vans many angles. Questions is tho how did other folks go about this? do you paint on with one colour then add the other over the top?? how do they look when they meet up? if it makes a difference colours are black and white

[CovKid]

run one paint slightly into the area that will be a different colour and feather it out with wet n dry paper (allow at least 3 weeks for any sanding after paint is appllied - ideally four) so its at least smooth then apply the other colour. If you use a ridge line (your choice which) it shouldn't show in terms of different thicknesses anyway. Use masking tape ofcourse.

[woodola]

well decided to repaint the van but this time to spray it with rustoleum i can honestly say the finish is no better in my opion than when rollered the only benefit being time

[MarkyBoyT25]

you got me!

I WILL MOST DEFO be doing just this

next door neighbours didnt think much of there snow flake affect paint job ha ha sorry