So here it goes. I've seen a few trucks lined head to toe, and after seeing Ardentyota's thread and Nay's thread, and playing with some liner samples from Al's Liner, I'm getting ready to do it.
I'm going with a smooth-ish texture in some shade of gray - as much as tan makes the most sense in matching the dirt around here, I can't do tan on blue with a dark gray interior...I mean I could, but I'm not. So some version of gray it is...smoke maybe, or battleship...
If you look very closely at the tan swatch there's a vertical scratch in the center, from a blade of scissors dragged sideways with significant pressure. This stuff is durable. Also all 4 of these swatches spent yesterday buried in the dirt, in the sun, and I merely brushed them off for the pics.
Tan smooth, Gray smooth, Dark Gray rough, Black fine rough (rubber crumb I think). First pic is in the shade, 2nd is in the sun. And yes, my flare gaskets are toast.
The order arrived this morning from RE Paint Supply. When Fed Ex arrived I was actually out in the driveway with a heat gun, a scraper, a can of 3M Adhesive Remover, and a respirator working on scraping off the gummy leftover adhesive from the roof rack removal - a miserable task. The delivery included Al's 6" nylon brush, and since I'm not worried about protecting my paint finish, I figured I'd try it out. The angle grinder might be spinning a bit faster than the recommended max of 6500 rpm, but it made very quick work of removing the 14 year old adhesive.
I'm dumping the black tint bundled with the kit and going with gray. Between achieving a smooth-ish texture and finding a decent gray I have some experimenting to do still. Here are the tints from RE Paint - Case Gray on the left, Smoke Metallic on the right. The photo below shows neat (unmixed) tints, so it's hard to judge the final result, but I can start to get the idea. At least the metallic is a fine particulate and not a cheesy metal flake. We'll see how it looks in the liner, but it's looking pretty silvery here:
I'll update as this project progresses, but I'm pretty excited about this.
Clark
I'm going with a smooth-ish texture in some shade of gray - as much as tan makes the most sense in matching the dirt around here, I can't do tan on blue with a dark gray interior...I mean I could, but I'm not. So some version of gray it is...smoke maybe, or battleship...
If you look very closely at the tan swatch there's a vertical scratch in the center, from a blade of scissors dragged sideways with significant pressure. This stuff is durable. Also all 4 of these swatches spent yesterday buried in the dirt, in the sun, and I merely brushed them off for the pics.
Tan smooth, Gray smooth, Dark Gray rough, Black fine rough (rubber crumb I think). First pic is in the shade, 2nd is in the sun. And yes, my flare gaskets are toast.
The order arrived this morning from RE Paint Supply. When Fed Ex arrived I was actually out in the driveway with a heat gun, a scraper, a can of 3M Adhesive Remover, and a respirator working on scraping off the gummy leftover adhesive from the roof rack removal - a miserable task. The delivery included Al's 6" nylon brush, and since I'm not worried about protecting my paint finish, I figured I'd try it out. The angle grinder might be spinning a bit faster than the recommended max of 6500 rpm, but it made very quick work of removing the 14 year old adhesive.
I'm dumping the black tint bundled with the kit and going with gray. Between achieving a smooth-ish texture and finding a decent gray I have some experimenting to do still. Here are the tints from RE Paint - Case Gray on the left, Smoke Metallic on the right. The photo below shows neat (unmixed) tints, so it's hard to judge the final result, but I can start to get the idea. At least the metallic is a fine particulate and not a cheesy metal flake. We'll see how it looks in the liner, but it's looking pretty silvery here:
I'll update as this project progresses, but I'm pretty excited about this.
Clark
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