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Post by The Kernel on May 2, 2024 18:36:35 GMT
Steve, Jeff , many thanks chaps. Nothing today cos I have run out of paint!!!!!!!! 😡😳😵
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Post by JEFF on May 2, 2024 20:29:20 GMT
I hate when that happens. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by The Kernel on May 2, 2024 21:14:44 GMT
I visited the LHS last Friday to buy paint, just didn't buy the colour I was short of. What a donkey🐎. There wasn't a donkey icon, so a pony will do😁.
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Post by Boots on May 2, 2024 21:33:33 GMT
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Post by Paul B on May 3, 2024 3:55:52 GMT
I visited the LHS last Friday to buy paint, just didn't buy the colour I was short of. What a donkey🐎. There wasn't a donkey icon, so a pony will do😁. LMFAO Bill ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/rofl.png)
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Post by The Kernel on May 3, 2024 18:30:42 GMT
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Post by Paul B on May 3, 2024 18:35:55 GMT
Bill I like the effects you have made there, but if you don't like it than that's understandable. Did you add pigments first and then paint over them? I have done that a couple of times on the exhausts of Cents, it came out quite well and I like that method.
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Post by The Kernel on May 3, 2024 18:51:29 GMT
My method is usually to prime either Halfords grey or terracotta, add a coat of Madame Foo Foo's hairspray, add a coat of colour, another shot of Foo Foo, and while wet add the pigments. Once dry another coat of top colour. Allow to dry and then scrub with a dry stiff brush. The pigment is hardened by Foo Foo and looks like dry rust once the colour is scrubbed off. On these doors I doused them in alcohol and rinsed with water after a few seconds. This works about 50% of the time. This time it went a little too far I feel.Joking about, Foo Foo doesn't exist it's really Tesco's cheapest😃😁🤭
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Post by Paul B on May 3, 2024 19:26:37 GMT
That is exactly what I meant Bill, but I just kept rather short ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) . My favorite Foo Foo is from drug store over here, it cost about 90 pence a couple of years ago ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/rofl.png)
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Post by The Kernel on May 3, 2024 20:23:46 GMT
I think Foo Foo is a thing, maybe I should register the name? ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) ?🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭
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Post by Boots on May 3, 2024 21:05:27 GMT
You can`t call it a Citreon FOO FOO ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/rofl.png)
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Post by Ian H. on May 4, 2024 12:22:25 GMT
I like the effects but do what you think is best!
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Post by The Kernel on May 4, 2024 20:24:45 GMT
Thanks Ian. I like the look but when offered up the body they are more extreme. I know that the real thing can weather in unpredictable ways but the doors look too severely corroded. I have over painted two of them and they look more like they belong now. 😃
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Post by Boots on May 5, 2024 14:01:33 GMT
Look forward to the revamp pics Bill ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by The Kernel on May 5, 2024 18:46:30 GMT
Forgot to take pics of the repainted doors🤭, but I do have a couple of pics showing a little progress elsewhere. The boot cover is just about done, hinges need a clean up, and this door is a trial. Attempting to recreate the torn/worn door card material. I don't know exactly what it was but it looks like a heavy cotton. Haven't had much time today, took hours to fix my spare bike , been stored in the loft for a year or two and there was more wrong than I remembered 😞 ![](https://i.ibb.co/rM6jP9q/IMG-20240505-193617-339.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/BBbtY8t/IMG-20240505-193540-278.jpg)
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Post by Boots on May 5, 2024 20:12:21 GMT
Holy moly that`s bloody good Bill ![](https://www.allsmileys.com/files/smiley-central-emotions/5187.gif)
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Post by The Kernel on May 5, 2024 20:40:21 GMT
Cheers mate, going to flatten the tears a bit and try use some pigments to mucky up the grey colour 😃
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Post by JEFF on May 5, 2024 21:09:59 GMT
I like that a lot,Bill. ![](http://www.allsmileys.com/files/kolobok/icq/18.gif)
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Post by Boots on May 5, 2024 21:24:20 GMT
Sounds like a good plan Bill ![](http://www.allsmileys.com/files/sweetim-communicate/6280.gif)
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Post by Paul B on May 6, 2024 3:59:44 GMT
You have certainly captured the look of that material Bill ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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