Finished (?) painting the Riv

"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa) 04/17/2016 at 23:14 • Filed to: None

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Wow this is awful. Everything about this is awful. There’s orange peel, there’s more runs than there is consistent paint, the color is terrible (I was imagining several shades darker), the prep is/was terrible. Meh. Learning experience.

Dsscats > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/17/2016 at 23:17

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Get a fuck ton of sand paper. Have fun.

bob and john > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/17/2016 at 23:17

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‘prep’

what prep?

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Dsscats 04/17/2016 at 23:18

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FUUUUUCK THAAAAAAAAT

Birddog > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/17/2016 at 23:21

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Wait a second. You did all the prep right?

Single stage paint? Rub it out!

TheHondaBro > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/17/2016 at 23:24

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Now if you don’t put a Leaping Jaguar on the hood like right now, we’re no longer friends.

jkm7680 > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/17/2016 at 23:24

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Hey at least you had the balls to actually paint that shit yourself.

whoarder is tellurium > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/17/2016 at 23:26

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You must.

Sam > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/17/2016 at 23:26

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Well. It’s very green. So that part was a success.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Birddog 04/17/2016 at 23:28

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Well. My prep consisted of not sanding the flaking parts as much as I should have, not taking the entire hood and trunk down to bare metal because of how many deep scratches (that I couldn’t really see) were in the paint, and then roughing up all of the paint with some sandpaper.

Then shooting it.

I forgot to wipe off the car, too.

And it was 100% humidity and 65 degrees. Fun shit.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > TheHondaBro 04/17/2016 at 23:28

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hmmm...

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > jkm7680 04/17/2016 at 23:29

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Plastidip is easier. Plastidip is oh so much easier. The Miata is getting plastidip. This “painting” stuff is nonsense.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > whoarder is tellurium 04/17/2016 at 23:29

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That’s the color I was going for. It is not the color I got. Also, sure is John Deere up in this business.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Sam 04/17/2016 at 23:29

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Congrats car is greened.

Urambo Tauro > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/17/2016 at 23:32

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How about “Green Meanie”?

Birddog > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/17/2016 at 23:32

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Yeah. I’m loving this!

A hero!

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Birddog 04/17/2016 at 23:34

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You’re more enthusiastic than I am. I need to find some sort of livery I can turn this into that isn’t total bollocks. Maybe it’ll look passable after some buffing.

StoneCold > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/17/2016 at 23:36

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Birddog > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/17/2016 at 23:41

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I guess you are a bit limited. Sand and buff?

Or find a way to go over the top with it.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/17/2016 at 23:47

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Color of money though.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/17/2016 at 23:51

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Flavien Vidal > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/17/2016 at 23:54

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haha, it does look awful indeed, but it’s still pretty fucking cool :)

Maybe try to polish it as much as possible to give it some kind of a natural car-color feel, at least :)

gergey - Wishes vette was Datsun > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/18/2016 at 00:10

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Either add a gold racing stripe, a la Lotus, or just say fuckit, and paint the wheels bright yellow and add a ‘Deere’ decal

gmctavish needs more space > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 04/18/2016 at 01:41

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Now absolutely no one will have any idea wha your car is. But hey, I wouldn’t have even tried painting it myself, so good on you for just going in elbow deep

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > gergey - Wishes vette was Datsun 04/18/2016 at 08:59

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Green and gold is a fantastic color combination. I really wish it turned out more of a BRG.