DesertRatt-WO
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My '04 generic white Minnie was looking tired and sad with faded/checked swirlies. After MUCH consideration, noodling, browsing YouTubes, and other inspirational resources, I decided to paint it myself. Of course, my wife thought I'd gone mad.
Lacking a ranch in Idaho, there is no possible place for me to "spray paint" a huge vehicle like this, so I settled on rollers and brushes and the best house paint I could find - Behr Marquee. A day spent selecting colors and paint was followed by four days of peeling swirlies, scraping swirlies, sanding swirlies. I posted about the decal removal earlier. I had to give up on the stripes at the 9' high level, because me and ladders are NOT a good combo. Exerting the pressure required to remove decals 9' off the ground was ruled out. I left those skinny stripes and painted over them.
It took 10 days of painting in 110F weather. 3 colors, lots of trim, and everything needed 2 and even 3 coats. Countless trips to the Depot for more this, more that.
It took 3.5 gallons of paint - -about $200. About another $200 for all the rest of the tape, rollers, brushes, whatever. My designer wife created a way cool new "Minnie Winnie" logo with Native American motif, that we are having made into 48" decals for the sides. Won't have them from the printer till 10/13 or so.
I'm mostly happy with how it came out. I've painted "art cars" before, but nothing this big, and never with house paint. The roller parts came out best, as you would expect. The brush work is ok from 15-feet away! It's unique!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/RmnRfoEybEYWFhoS7
Lacking a ranch in Idaho, there is no possible place for me to "spray paint" a huge vehicle like this, so I settled on rollers and brushes and the best house paint I could find - Behr Marquee. A day spent selecting colors and paint was followed by four days of peeling swirlies, scraping swirlies, sanding swirlies. I posted about the decal removal earlier. I had to give up on the stripes at the 9' high level, because me and ladders are NOT a good combo. Exerting the pressure required to remove decals 9' off the ground was ruled out. I left those skinny stripes and painted over them.
It took 10 days of painting in 110F weather. 3 colors, lots of trim, and everything needed 2 and even 3 coats. Countless trips to the Depot for more this, more that.
It took 3.5 gallons of paint - -about $200. About another $200 for all the rest of the tape, rollers, brushes, whatever. My designer wife created a way cool new "Minnie Winnie" logo with Native American motif, that we are having made into 48" decals for the sides. Won't have them from the printer till 10/13 or so.
I'm mostly happy with how it came out. I've painted "art cars" before, but nothing this big, and never with house paint. The roller parts came out best, as you would expect. The brush work is ok from 15-feet away! It's unique!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/RmnRfoEybEYWFhoS7
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