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Baby has new paint

Started by Kwajdiver, June 03, 2007, 08:48:24 AM

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Kwajdiver

June 03, 2007, 08:48:24 AM
It's been a long road, but it's painted.  Will have to do a little touch up, here and there.  But, it looks great from 20 feet away and I did it all myself.  My first time painting anything.

Trying to post before and after photos.

Bill
Auburndale, Florida
MCI-9
V-6-92 Detroit, Allison 5 spd auto
Kwajalein Atoll, RMI

Busted Knuckle

#1
June 03, 2007, 08:54:12 AM
Looks purty good from what I see! BK  ;D
Busted Knuckle aka Bryce Gaston
KY Lakeside Travel's Busted Knuckle Garage
Huntingdon, TN 12 minutes N of I-40 @ exit 108
www.kylakesidetravel.net
;D Keep SMILING it makes people wonder what yer up to! ;D (at least thats what momma always told me! ;D)

skipn

#2
June 03, 2007, 08:55:22 AM
Bill,

   Congrats! Nice color :) and lines. Now if you can figure out how to keep the
bugs, dirt and sunlight off, the paint job should last forever  ;)

Skip

Kwajdiver

#3
June 03, 2007, 08:57:42 AM
NO, ,,,,, the dark blue is the OLD color.  I never did like the stripes....
Auburndale, Florida
MCI-9
V-6-92 Detroit, Allison 5 spd auto
Kwajalein Atoll, RMI

Kwajdiver

#4
June 03, 2007, 09:12:09 AM
Thinking about putting a big wave on the side.  Only a thought, presently.....

Bill
Boomdocking at Lake Pleasant, Az. for the night.
Auburndale, Florida
MCI-9
V-6-92 Detroit, Allison 5 spd auto
Kwajalein Atoll, RMI

Busted Knuckle

#5
June 03, 2007, 09:13:12 AM
My Bad, but I still liked the stripes! But hey the new paint looks good too! BK  ;D
Busted Knuckle aka Bryce Gaston
KY Lakeside Travel's Busted Knuckle Garage
Huntingdon, TN 12 minutes N of I-40 @ exit 108
www.kylakesidetravel.net
;D Keep SMILING it makes people wonder what yer up to! ;D (at least thats what momma always told me! ;D)

Kwajdiver

#6
June 03, 2007, 09:18:13 AM
BK,

Not sure which way I will go, but I know I will break up all the blue with graphs of some kind.
The present thoughts are a huge wave breaking, perhaps a Pirate ship also.

Of course this line of thinking changes every couple of weeks.

Open for suggestions.

Bill
Auburndale, Florida
MCI-9
V-6-92 Detroit, Allison 5 spd auto
Kwajalein Atoll, RMI

Busted Knuckle

#7
June 03, 2007, 09:24:04 AM
"a huge wave breaking, perhaps a Pirate ship also"

That'd be cool! BK  ;D
Busted Knuckle aka Bryce Gaston
KY Lakeside Travel's Busted Knuckle Garage
Huntingdon, TN 12 minutes N of I-40 @ exit 108
www.kylakesidetravel.net
;D Keep SMILING it makes people wonder what yer up to! ;D (at least thats what momma always told me! ;D)

skipn

#8
June 03, 2007, 10:45:34 AM

Oops! I was confused. Though to be honest both Blues are nice. Ok so I like Blue.

You could do sweeping lines like mine with a curl at the end for waves. Maybe
a little modernistic for your tastes. The graphics would be fairly easy to have made
  and installed.

  Just a thought I am sure you will be stylen in no time.

    Skip

wvanative

#9
June 03, 2007, 11:20:37 AM
I know some don't like graphics such as lines, zig zags, and so on, but have you thought about an ocean scene with a suffer on a wave with dolphins jumping, and a great white shark ripping a suffers leg off, and swimming away with it in his mouth. Oh and don't forget the killer whale eating a seal. Or you could go with just plain old solid blue. What ever you decide works for me LOL.

WVaNative   
Dean Hamilton Villa Grove, IL East Central IL. Near Champaign
Still Dreaming and planning

skipn

#10
June 03, 2007, 11:45:30 AM
   Along that vain. There is a bus in the Tacoma/Seattle area that an artist used the bus for ocean
murals of fish waves etc. One of the murals was of a mermaid that they basically had to keep covered
up for the male drivers would almost wreck mesmerized. As told to me by DandaBusman. I saw the bus
when I picked up mine and the Artist was/is very good!

  Moral (darn) maybe could be: "Too great of artistic beauty is too distracting to view while driving! "

Skip

Dreamscape

#11
June 03, 2007, 04:18:02 PM
Hello Bill,

Glad to see you DID IT! I'm sure you change other ideas you have many times before you add to your paint job.
I'm in Vancourver WA. for two weeks, new job and training. Might see you in Phoenix if I make it that way before you leave.

Paul

Dreamscape

Ace

#12
June 03, 2007, 08:03:20 PM
OK I was going to surprise everyone at Arcadia this year with my new paint graphics but since they are not done yet and hopefully if everything goes as planned they will be before then, Here is what I have planned!
Since my bus is already goldish, I will be doing something similar to this one only instead of black, I will be using a copperish/brownish color AND I am checking on maybe updating the front end with newer lights as well!
Gee I hope I win the lottery soon and I hope Susan doesn't get mad when I change the bus!  ::)  Oh well, it's all good!

Ace
Ace Rossi
Lakeland, Fl. 33810
Prevost H3-40

Kwajdiver

#13
June 03, 2007, 10:17:47 PM
Paul,

I should be in Phoenix until mid July.  Then I hope to go to Gulfport, Miss.  but that is uncertain.

Bill
Auburndale, Florida
MCI-9
V-6-92 Detroit, Allison 5 spd auto
Kwajalein Atoll, RMI

Dreamscape

#14
June 04, 2007, 02:50:58 AM
Bill,

Either way, stop by on your way through.

Paul
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