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

From: Bobby Joe Pendleton (bjpendleton@charter.net)
Date: Sun Feb 29 2004 - 07:30:07 PST


I use a scotch-brite pad on mine

BjP
----- Original Message -----
From: "m35products" <m35prod@optonline.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, 29 February, 2004 10:22
Subject: Re: [MV] Making paint look faded...how?

> 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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