John H
Kansas City Mo.
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Hey Rip, I was just ribbing you. A friend of mine once though about purchasing a machine that cut these sticky back, multi color plastic decals that run down the sides of dressed up cars & custom vans several years ago, & rv's. Your imagination was the limit as to what you could come up with on this computer driven machine.What ever you pick to do, incorporate the color of the sides as a back ground, large or small area. Making it apparent that the white was there on purpose to illustrate what ever you chose. A wide kind of front, side framing color, on the front comes to mind. Using the color banding running from the sides running to the front, & turning 90 at the front, running towards the top & also bottom. Using the sides color as a base/background color in a band width say oh, 5" wide. Side color raw edges paint covered by one of the sides color, stripes color. Thus it would look as though you had framed, in side color, what ever you chose to do in white.
One more thing; It the body/RV/car painting world today it is a snap to match colors using a machine. The trick in your case is the spraying of that paint.
John H
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i'mforgiven
Texas
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You did a great job! I hope that mine will turn out as good as yours and Memory Roads did. I will be looking forward to ses how the trim will look like, it make alot of sense to make something that will cover the seam better. I don't have enough knowledge about fiberglass to try that.
God Bless, Dan
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Ripsnort
Lake Tapps, WA USA
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i'mforgiven wrote:You did a great job! I hope that mine will turn out as good as yours and Memory Roads did. I will be looking forward to ses how the trim will look like, it make alot of sense to make something that will cover the seam better. I don't have enough knowledge about fiberglass to try that.
God Bless, Dan
Neither do I dan, neither do I. Memoryroads gave me the confidence to work with fiberglass and I managed to salvage the uppermost piece of filon by trying it. I can't express enough to do test sections of whatever you're glassing. This allows you to trial and error learn, and build your confidence.
The radius corners may be the ultimate challenge, as I have corregated side walls that need to match up with the roofline (thus, multiple joggles to glass over and bondo) but time and patience should prevail.
I am still looking for an optional trim that is not like the original aluminum, that has at least 1" overlap, is cost effective... but that search has been futile so far.
Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly,Love truly,Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you smile.
Rip's Garage!
1990 Fleetwood Jamboree 27 ft E350
Cabover Rebuild Project
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dieseleagle
Cape Coral, Florida
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Very impressed with the quality of the work. Congratulations. Its clear that you thought through each phase of the project and didn't just jump in. As I was reading through I wondered how you were going to handle the tight radius curve of the nose. Your dad's solution was terrific.
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