Paint Your Wagon - with a roller!

[dugcati]

interestingly he did it over 4 days... is he using different stuff as 4 days in the Uk and the paint is still waaaaaaay too tacky to sand down?

[folkers]

interestingly he did it over 4 days... is he using different stuff as 4 days in the Uk and the paint is still waaaaaaay too tacky to sand down?

Ive been leaving mine a week!!

[Termite]

Did my first coat on the boot lid, rear valance and the sliding door track covers on an early bay today. Think I might have had the paint a tad too thick. I mixed approximately 400ml of rustoleum with 75ml white spirt in a paint mixing cup and gave it a good stir yesterday for 10 minutes. Stirred it a little today, but had real problems with air bubbles. Most of these did level out eventually. Reason why I think it was a bit thick is that the coverage on the panels was really good

I thought the first coat was a bit wishy-wash (for want of a better phrase), but this was pretty good. A couple of patches where I could see red oxide primer underneath and the odd insect landing on it and some airborne dust, but pretty pleased with the first crack at it.

Are people flatting back after every coat or giving it a couple of coats between flatting back?

Below is a pic of the bootlid after it was dry enough to touch. I'm going to try and take a pic of the same part after every coat/flatback so that I can compare the reflection of myself in it!

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[Termite]

Guess I made a right balls up of adding my first pic!

Second attempt...

[gaz f]

Termite, flatten between coats. It's the best way and will give the best results. Your finish looks similar to mine before flattening. Keep up the good work (nice colour too!)

[Termite]

Thanks for the reply gaz. Best to flat back even if it hasn't fully covered? I guess I was hoping to not have to rub down as much, but I guess if a job is worth doing properly...

[VEEDUB]

Started prepping the van today and ordered my paint, the original colour is a darkish red ?? so looking on the rustoleum chart Ive gone for RAL 3000 has anyone used this colour ?? .

[Termite]

I've not used a RAL paint, but asked Avenue to mix me up some Savannah Beige. They didn't know what the code for that was, so I went to Halfords and got a spray can mixed up, then sprayed an old tabacco in I found in the garage and then sent the sample in. I was expecting the mixed paint to be a shade lighter or darker than the sample, but they mixed it spot on.

I just hope the Halfords colour was correct, otherwise my van will be "the Halfords interpretation of VW Savannah Beige" in colour!

[The Bobdogs]

Roller a van....been there , done that.....
Try one of these beasties...did this today in about 3 hours..!


Thats 70ft of narrowboat that is....doing the sides this weekend...should be fun

[The Bobdogs]

And the weekends hard work out on the river....

[MarkyBoyT25]

Thats a lot of flatting back

good job mate

nice one

[The Bobdogs]

Flatting back be damned...
Used Masons paint,and cunningly painted the boat roof the same colour as our camper! It was 130 quid for 3.5 litres but worth the money.
Despite it being a warm day, I thinned to the usual 'disappointing custard' consistancy and went for it!! Very pleased when I went back to dry brush the area I had just painted to see it didn't really need it. Quite happy with the finish as it is. The roof will get walked all over, so no point in getting precious about it.
Sides get marked from overhanging trees and other 'sticky out' stuff, and lifes too short to be a boat polisher!
All in all , very happy with the results of a busy days labour.
Plus I gave Julie all the fiddly bits to do so I could just roller like a man posessed...

[New Kentish Campers]

Out of interest, is that a live-aboard boat?

I've always fancied doing that but the wife wont have any of it...

[fotherespie]

Great thread but I'm lost within it! I'm trying to find a stockiest that does the white Joker paint. My Dad is outside happily attaching my new bike rack and a fear there is some touching up coming...

[CovKid]

Narrow boats average £1k per foot (in length). If it were applied to a T25, we'd all be driving over £17k's worth. That might put you off

For real inspiration, watch this fella. I have spoken to him in the past.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3UCEbGZmz0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Then when you've been bowled over by that, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HNFX96CxDs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Absolutely nothing to do with rollering but a nice version all the same