Re: [MV] Making paint look faded...how?

From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Sun Feb 29 2004 - 07:22:47 PST


Leave it at the ocean beach for a few months.

Leave it in the parking lot of a sulphur plant.

Take it to a low-rent district and invite the neighborhood kids to "polish"
it with Brillo.

Pour Coca-Cola all over it.

Spray it with artists' matte medium, the way we weather our model trains.

A P Bloom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bjorn Brandstedt" <super_deuce@hotmail.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 9:40 AM
Subject: [MV] Making paint look faded...how?

> Good morning,
> Is there a good way to make a freshly painted vehicle look like it was
> painted years ago? A method to cut the "crispness" of the new paint.
> Especially as applied to multiple camo colors where the edges between the
> different colors need to flow together better. Spraying works ok, but it
> doesn't have that continous look of the original, faded finish.
> As always, thanks for any information.
> Bjorn
> MVPA 19212
> Meadows of Dan, Virginia
>
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