Hello Painting is almost completed . We have the polishing and some other trim to paint but 98% done. I had a friend paint the bus but my wife and I did all the prep work. We added trim so the prep took us 6 weeks including trimming stripping and other tasks; the actual painting , masking and other required work took 48 hours or so with 3 people working full time.
The paint is R&M diamont basecoat clearcoat using their fleet chart for the color choices. the basecoat is their 902 white which is the most opaque and best covering white in this series. My friend the painter has a brother in law with a shop and advised us on all paint related matters. These guys use this stuff all the time and know the in and outs of why things happen. They are also very skilled in what they do. WE did have to devise a strategy to get the paint on without resorting to ladders which was unique but more on that later.. anyway a few pix of the results. The red barn in the background is at RJs place in Monroe NC who graciously threw out a cord and let us stay whilst visiting family .
The first pix was taken at Cass state park in WV and is the camping/ parking lot while visiting the Shay steam trains there. Ten bucks a night next to the Greenbrier river..
Regards and happy bussin mike
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Mike that really looks nice!
Congrats
Skip
Can't wait to see it up close! ;D Less than an hour from here. Very Classy!
I think it really looks great. Good job
Looking good!
A sweet looking coach with a cummin and 6 speed auto. Wow!
Sojourn for Christ, Gerald
Do you contract out? ;D Looks good, now the wife wants ours redone ???
Mike, you really ought to post some pix of your interior too...nice!
Enjoyed your visit! Wish we had more time.
I'd like to spend some more time visiting and looking at your engine install. Y'all are welcome any time!
JR
Looks great!
I also agree with JR, the inside is great too.
Hello thanks for the compliments . we will post pix when we can . I am contemplating a magazine article if the bus would be acceptable but have not had it finished enough to get that done.
regards mike
Quote from: mikelutestanski on June 27, 2009, 09:07:35 AM
I am contemplating a magazine article if the bus would be acceptable but have not had it finished enough to get that done.
regards mike
VERY acceptable and welcome! When you feel ready, drop an email to chad@busconversions.com .
Same goes for anyone that would be interested in doing an article on their bus. They don't have to be finished or perfect. Out of practicality, the cover and centerfold will give preference to finished or near buses (if one can every really declare a bus conversion as finished ;) ). But we are looking for feature articles on conversions in progress.
Well done Mike! Be careful or you won't have anything else to do! ::)
Write up a document in Word on your conversion, submit with photos to Chad. He'll make what you wrote look like you're an author!
They are always hungry looking for fill, and you have a nice coach to display.
Paul
Mike,
It looks really nice. Congrads.
Where exactly did you find a booth that would accept a bus for painting? Details?
Thanks and again....great job,
John
WOW! Makes me want to go out now and work on ours!
JAck
So tell us how you did this without a ladder? Details please ;D
I know Mike is on the road and don't know if he has internet access at the present time. Mike painted his bus inside his shop after setting up fans and screen doors for proper ventilation (screen doors in the overhead door opening with the overhead door resting on top of the screen doors). He used his forklift to keep the painter in the proper position. Having seen the paint job "up close and personal" as well as the beautiful interior that his his wife did (complete with stained glass cabinet doors), this is one beautiful coach. Jack
When we were working our way north from Jacks, we stopped in at mikes, he was still working on the engine replacement at that time, his attention to detail was absolute, if the paint job is anything like the results of that it's a great job. I still remember looking up and seeing a riding lawn mower up on a shelf near the ceiling of his shop and scratching my head, mike pointed to a fork lift over on the side lol. Mike and his lovely bride are coming thru this area in a bit, I'm anxious to see them again, all good people.