Painting faux windows January 26, 2017, 05:36:39 pm We finally have some sunshine here in Southern California. The rains were pretty brutal here but we so needed them. My husband is preparing the LD for paint. Any last minute suggestions?
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #2 – January 26, 2017, 06:02:13 pm You have probably already read the recent and detailed thread on this subject. I would just add to be sure to mask everything! Everything! 1 Likes
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #3 – January 26, 2017, 06:14:20 pm " Any last minute suggestions?"Keep 911 on speed dial 😱Ed 1 Likes
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #4 – January 26, 2017, 06:19:54 pm I put a shipping blanket on the hood in case I dropped anything heavy or sharp enough. Most paints have a minimum temperature and maximum humidity. A hot, dry Santana with no wind is preferable. RonB 1 Likes
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #5 – January 26, 2017, 07:45:56 pm Quote from: Marciebp - January 26, 2017, 05:36:39 pmWe finally have some sunshine here in Southern California. The rains were pretty brutal here but we so needed them. My husband is preparing the LD for paint. I hope you'll post pictures of the results along with lessons learned, type of paint, and method of painting. Best of luck with this very interesting project. 2 Likes
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #6 – January 26, 2017, 10:02:17 pm Quote from: Ed D. - January 26, 2017, 06:14:20 pm" Any last minute suggestions?"Keep 911 on speed dial 😱EdGood one, Ed!Chris 2 Likes
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #7 – January 27, 2017, 07:22:17 pm Traxless,This wasn't a bad project- squeezing the painting in between the windy gusts was a little tricky. But, I think my husband did a great job. Cleaning, sanding, priming and then painting and voila! Hope it lasts for awhile but it looks a heck of a lot better now. Looks as if I may have to start a new link in order to post the photos. Forgive me if this isn't the proper way to do it. 1 Likes
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #9 – January 27, 2017, 08:11:13 pm Quote from: Marciebp - January 27, 2017, 07:39:55 pmA few pixLooks nicely done.Jim 1 Likes
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #10 – January 27, 2017, 08:16:43 pm Marcie,Looks cleanly done. Good job folks.Here's a question to the group at large. Knowing that the faux Windows paint fades, flakes and shows age after time has anyone just gone with white paint to match the coach?From the photos, it appears that the faux Windows are raised above the rest of the nose section. Later year LD's have raised sections as well but have been left unpainted by the Mothership. Matching paint to the LD White might be difficult but the white raised sections on later models don't look too out of the ordinary. Just wondering?Kent
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #11 – January 27, 2017, 08:28:25 pm Kent, wouldn't that just look like a bread truck? (Whatever that is) 1 Likes
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #12 – January 27, 2017, 08:48:52 pm Paul,That's always been a bit of a debate. But, with a bit of "special effects detailing" and "shadowing" I think it would be possible to pull of a convincing look if the surface is indeed not raised like later year models.Here's a shot of mine...but mine are raised.Looks ok to me, but then I do like a good loaf of sprouted wheat bread in my rigs fridge. Lol...Kent 1 Likes
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #13 – January 27, 2017, 09:39:51 pm Kent and Paul,We actually discussed painting the windows white. Vince at the factory believed that it could be done but the black paint would eventually show through. And then due to the age of the rig, the white would be hard to match due to fading. Next time we might have to try the white.
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #14 – January 27, 2017, 11:50:45 pm Quote from: Marciebp - January 27, 2017, 07:22:17 pmTraxless,This wasn't a bad project- squeezing the painting in between the windy gusts was a little tricky. But, I think my husband did a great job. Cleaning, sanding, priming and then painting and voila! Hope it lasts for awhile but it looks a heck of a lot better now. Looks as if I may have to start a new link in order to post the photos. Forgive me if this isn't the proper way to do it."Looks as if I may have to start a new link in order to post the photos. Forgive me if this isn't the proper way to do it."Marcie, I merged the two topics so all comments and photos are in one thread.Chris
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #16 – January 28, 2017, 03:52:37 am To fill in some back story for Paul's comment about 'bread trucks'; The older coaches that had actual glass windows, of course the windows were tinted dark. When Lazy Daze went to a Fiberglas front molded nose cone, they made raised flat panels in the shape of windows to strengthen the structure, prevent it from flexing in the breeze. They painted the raised areas black to maintain the look of previous year models. When I asked Ed Newton why they didn't just leave it white (I'm sure a lot of people asked the same question) He said it was to keep it from looking like a Bread truck. Like Paul I'm not quite sure what a bread truck looked like, but I assume they went the way of milk delivery-to-your-door trucks, and had flat white cab over fronts. When Lazy Daze went to an even more swept back nose cone, the stiffening panel 'windows' weren't shaped so much like windows, and Steve Newton just left them the factory white paint. Hopefully the constant sand blasting of the front cap won't be as noticeable on the surface. The front marker lights were made rectangular and recessed more in to the surface. The rear cap was also redone and those marker lights changed and recessed, along with LED tail, and reverse lights.RonB 2 Likes
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #17 – January 28, 2017, 08:53:53 am I remember bread trucks (and milk trucks, and a lot of other delivery and "panel trucks"!) quite well. Every few days, the Weber's bread truck pulled into the alley behind the little grocery store in the central coast of CA town where I grew up; delivered Weber's bread in the blue and white checkered wrapping. Calisphere: Weber's Bread trucksI asked the same "Why paint the raised areas black"? question of Ed when I ordered my 2003; he gave the same "bread truck" answer that I'm sure he'd done many times before!Joan 1 Likes
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #18 – January 28, 2017, 09:01:32 am Good job on those black rectangles! I like the look, especially as a way of identifying LDs coming at us on the road. Will need to do ours one day, so I am taking inspiration. 3 Likes
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #19 – January 28, 2017, 12:00:57 pm I thought there might have been an inside joke about the "bread truck" references. Thanks for the clarification.
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #20 – January 28, 2017, 03:29:37 pm "...to keep it from looking like a Bread truck."Excellent narration there Ron on those nasty bread trucks! But to my recollection 'ole Ed' sometimes used a more emphatic and colorful vocabulary and what I heard was; "... looking like a Damned Bread Truck". 1 Likes
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #21 – January 28, 2017, 05:23:34 pm Adding my own tangential two cents to the bread "narration," our local newspaper editor was doing some research on something a few years back & discovered that Chillicothe is the first place that bread was ever commercially sliced. Our historical society has the second machine made by the inventor on loan from the Smithsonian's attic. For anyone's reading enjoyment or to fix it in your memory for the next rousing game of Trivial Pursuit: LynneFor some reason, my inept fingers aren't making the link work (It looks right when I type & use the icon, but it just shows up as a question mark in a blue box on my screen), so here's my copy & paste.Sliced bread - WikipediaThat's weird...the copy & paste shows up as a link... Oh, well, enjoy. 2 Likes
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #22 – January 28, 2017, 07:35:48 pm Many years ago, on a different RV list, one member referred to motorhomes as "bread trucks with windows". --Al in Scappoose (currently in Jojoba Hills) --2002 MB
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #23 – January 28, 2017, 10:16:39 pm Hi Steve S., I wasn't going to be too harsh, but speaking of bread, both Paul and Ed were really 'Crusty' characters. Ed behaved himself with my wife present, uh mostly. RonB 1 Likes
Re: Painting faux windows Reply #24 – January 29, 2017, 12:24:11 am I'd have to agree with that "Crusty Character" description...Back in '04 when the wife and I were visiting the Mothership and while sitting in a 30'IB (our ultimate choice) Mr. Ed came by and said; "The 30' is too big for you."Now that the wife has passed over I still find the 30' quite comfortable. 1 Likes
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