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hi all im gona be painting my van this weekend and am torn between what colour to use,im gona be doing a two tone paint job using mat black but im torn between the ral2000 orange and the ral6018 green combicolor paints,ive seen pics of the orange and like it a lot but i also like kawazaki green and dont know if the combicolor green is somthing near kawazaki green???
cheers james

Hey,

Is this the type of thing:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1982-VW-T25-CAMPE ... 2eb2acd417

I love the van in that link!

StuM wrote:Hey,

Is this the type of thing:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1982-VW-T25-CAMPE ... 2eb2acd417

I love the van in that link!

yes bud thats the colour im looking for but dont know if thats the combicolor ral6018,the colour chart seems to be all pastal colours?

Have you seen this:

http://www.promain.co.uk/product/RAL601 ... 47_clid123

Looks right to me..

StuM wrote:Have you seen this:

http://www.promain.co.uk/product/RAL601 ... 47_clid123

Looks right to me..

yeh looks about right will order it in the morning,cheers for that

Can't wait to see it, good combination of colours!

gaz f wrote:Can't wait to see it, good combination of colours!

hi folks just managed to get a bit of mat black on today before it got to dark,masked off the windows and spayed the rubbers as they were painted red and i couldnt get it off,got my green paint today ral 6018 combicolor so will be giving the van 1st coat tomorrow,got to spray the roof 1st thing in mat black then its on with the green cant wait to get it done now im fed up with driving around like this been getting some realy strange looks off people,they must think im a right nutter that dont care what he drives
i think the green and mat black are going to look the muts nuts,will put some pics on tomorrow
cheers james

double post.

Isn't it a bot too cold to be painting? I'm needing to do some very soon, can you let me know your drying times with the Combi Colour and how much you thin it please.

ninja.turtle007 wrote:Isn't it a bot too cold to be painting? I'm needing to do some very soon, can you let me know your drying times with the Combi Colour and how much you thin it please.

yeh was a bit cold today but i wasnt ready for the paint still had a fair bit of sanding to do,hopefuly will be a bit warmer tomorrow so might be lucky and get a bit on,will be using 20% thinner,will let you know drying times tomorrow,cheers james

Surely it's too cold and damo to be painting outside?

Cruz wrote:Surely it's too cold and damo to be painting outside?

will be using my mates paint shop nice and toasty if its not full of motors over the weekend,if not might have to wait till hes got some space in the evening,could be a late one