Getting Ready to Durabak My Entire 80
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Rezarf
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can't wait to see it.
Shark Bait
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Holy Crayola, Batman! 
No going back now. 
No going back now. 
Nay
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Terrible lighting for the finished shot...
Electrical tape for prep is key around the trim and gaskets, you pull it and it cuts the Durabak in a line like a knife. Extra "blue" paint tape was a mess to remove, you'd just bury it if that's all you used.
I'll be painting my trimmed rear quarters - they are subject to the occasional bit of bumper abuse (despite my "hockey puck cut in half in an angle between the frame brace and reinforced cut panel that works like a charm design
) and rather than deal with potential Durabak peel spreading like a disease I'm just gonna paint 'em.
Pass the salsa
Electrical tape for prep is key around the trim and gaskets, you pull it and it cuts the Durabak in a line like a knife. Extra "blue" paint tape was a mess to remove, you'd just bury it if that's all you used.
I'll be painting my trimmed rear quarters - they are subject to the occasional bit of bumper abuse (despite my "hockey puck cut in half in an angle between the frame brace and reinforced cut panel that works like a charm design
) and rather than deal with potential Durabak peel spreading like a disease I'm just gonna paint 'em.Pass the salsa
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Jenny Cruiser
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Now all you need is a Forest Service decal on each door.
As the 80 series gets older, the vehicles no longer look all the same, do they?
Looks good!
Looks good!
RockRunner
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Where ever you go there will be chips and dip.
Looks pretty cool, would like to see it in person sometime.
Looks pretty cool, would like to see it in person sometime.
This is an incredible testament to self esteem and commitment; Wow!
Nay
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I've got a few different threads going on this project (MUD), and am trying to keep up basic info on each.
One interesting result is the sample chip for this color looking at it straight on really looks like an Avocado skin, it's a darker base with some lighter elements and a nice sheen - if you look at a section of the rig straight on it looks just like the sample. From a distance on the whole rig, though, the color is much lighter and "muddier" because you are seeing the color of the raised texture from an angle, and it becomes guacamole (or a carsick alligator depending on your preferred analogy
).
I was always concerned about the large scale result from a color perspective, which is actually why I chose this color over the red, blue, or dark green - it had a much better gloss and color depth on the sample than the others.
What you don't know until you commit is how it will look in 3D and in a large scale, and it is really very different. I like it in a "laugh out loud every time I see it" kind of way, but I was looking for a more sophisticated look.
I am doing a test strip on cardboard to see if I can "ripen" the Avocado by rolling black Rustoleum gloss on just the textured bits, retaining the darker green that is flat against the body.
Having said that, I love how easy it was to work with this stuff in a DIY roll on application and the functionality of the result. It is very uniform and the lines up against the window gaskets came out so clean because you are "laying" this stuff on rather than painting it, and it really spreads itself up against any trim. Use electrical tape as the base for your prep and it cuts the Durabak like you used an exacto knife.
If I end up tweaking the color I'll post up the results, and if not, pass the chips
One interesting result is the sample chip for this color looking at it straight on really looks like an Avocado skin, it's a darker base with some lighter elements and a nice sheen - if you look at a section of the rig straight on it looks just like the sample. From a distance on the whole rig, though, the color is much lighter and "muddier" because you are seeing the color of the raised texture from an angle, and it becomes guacamole (or a carsick alligator depending on your preferred analogy
).I was always concerned about the large scale result from a color perspective, which is actually why I chose this color over the red, blue, or dark green - it had a much better gloss and color depth on the sample than the others.
What you don't know until you commit is how it will look in 3D and in a large scale, and it is really very different. I like it in a "laugh out loud every time I see it" kind of way, but I was looking for a more sophisticated look.
I am doing a test strip on cardboard to see if I can "ripen" the Avocado by rolling black Rustoleum gloss on just the textured bits, retaining the darker green that is flat against the body.
Having said that, I love how easy it was to work with this stuff in a DIY roll on application and the functionality of the result. It is very uniform and the lines up against the window gaskets came out so clean because you are "laying" this stuff on rather than painting it, and it really spreads itself up against any trim. Use electrical tape as the base for your prep and it cuts the Durabak like you used an exacto knife.
If I end up tweaking the color I'll post up the results, and if not, pass the chips
Bikeman
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I want to see it in person! Good work.
farnhamstj
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What about once it gets muddy. Will the texture hold the mud and washing result in clean on the mountain tops and dirty in the valleys?
It'll be a good story in 20 years, "Hey, you remember that time you painted your truck with a roller and it came out looking like guacamole."
It'll be a good story in 20 years, "Hey, you remember that time you painted your truck with a roller and it came out looking like guacamole.
"
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What about once it gets muddy. Will the texture hold the mud and washing result in clean on the mountain tops and dirty in the valleys?
It'll be a good story in 20 years, "Hey, you remember that time you painted your truck with a roller and it came out looking like guacamole.
I hear the stuff cleans up nice with a pressure spray, but we'll see.
As for a good story...no doubt
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Here's a couple of pics of the finished look, it darkened as it cures, but I am finding my camera likes to overexpose the pics in full sun.
General public response has been, in the words of two firemen who came up to talk to me at the gas station yesterday, "that is just badass".
Not a good mod if you don't want public attention
General public response has been, in the words of two firemen who came up to talk to me at the gas station yesterday, "that is just badass
".Not a good mod if you don't want public attention
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That's sweet, Nay.. so you're essently pinstripe-proof now, eh?