1968 Campervan conversion

[joaonar]

once there, we wrapped it in some more paper 8) ....

 

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after leaving only the roof at sight, André applied a small straight line of mastic in the rain gutter.
After he cleaned all the roof area from any contaminant (like dust or grease)...

... and with everything ready ....

... and with the paint booth working at full speed :mrgreen: .....

... he started painting it:

 

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after some hours and after being baked at 60º for 30 min's, the roof was looking like this:

 

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Sunday morning, when I arrived to the paint shop, André had already isolated the roof and applied some mastic beneath the rain gutter:

 

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again, with all area cleaned from dust and other contaminants....

... andré was ready to paint it:

 

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after several years, paint again!

 

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the paint both working at full speed, again:

... and some more pictures of andré painting the bus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWnJJDxILDo

 

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[Grazy]

Nice mate , what colour are you painting the bus

 

[joaonar]

thanks Grazy.

The bus is now Savannah Beige. It's a color scheme you just don't see here... but I know it's more common in the UK.
People here tend to paint them with two bright and vivid color combos (well, like I did a couple of years ago). But now, I decided it deserves a more elegant and fancy color... and after seeing some examples here, I just fell in love with it

need to say that one of them is the gorgeous Davebug's bus and as someone said in another topic, that bus is just art...

 

[joaonar]

after painted, it was looking like this:

... and after leaving it inside the booth paint for 30 min's at 60º Celsiu...

... we waited a couple of hours and started removing all paper we used to protect the previously painted areas:

 

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... anda already outside:

Hugo showed up to see the end result:

and a couple hours later, almost ready to go home again:

 

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after 50 km's made in almost an hour :roll: :

( I don't know what happened, but he just isn't the same)

meanwhile, I stayed at home to clean some dirt that we did ...
I spent a few minutes but it was more than enough to catch them 15 km's ahead.
The driver was crazy... He was going at 140 km/h :shock:

... but it was better this way! :mrgreen:

And finally we got home!

 

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... from where it had left on the 12 of october of 2009 :mrgreen: :

 

[burns808]

Nice. I always say beige is best!!!

 

[mychatype3]

SUPER, looking very very nice, keep up the good work.

Kind regards from Holland, mycha

 

[joaonar]

thanks to you both

mycha: I have a lot to learn with your thread

 

[joaonar]

the bus is now waiting for the remaining parts that are still being painted at this time.
Now begins another stage :mrgreen:

(my garage begins to run out of space :roll: )

cheers to you all!
João

 

[easy]

Huzza home again! :mrgreen: