Painting artwork onto a Coaster Bus ... anyone done it before ????

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Cheers Axle.

Yes - We painted our bus which we drove around Australia - We did not do real fancy work but my ex wife was a good artist. We used off the shelf automotive paints and after we finished used a clear coat.

It all went well, but I guess you will have to try a patch to see if you get a bad reaction or not :-)

Cheers Tony

Hi Joe n Mel n Kids. Why not ask Dave in Broken Hill If he can find out what the Late Pro Hart painted his Rolls Royce with. Brian

The suggestion of automotive paint is the way to go. One of our girls touched up the fading/peeling paintings which were on our caravan when we purchased it. She also painted on the 40 for UHF channel, and the boat stickers were peeling off. Her then partner has a panel and paint business, so she had ready access to the right sort of paint. I'm pretty sure she didn't use any primer.

Motherhen

G'day Joe, yes Muzbury is right, I was involved with the coach Pioneer had painted up by some of the artists here.
After a long discussion amongst the artists, it was decided to use Solver household enamel.
The vehicle was etch primed first, and then the enamel was put on, firstly, a base coat of a background colour was sprayed on, then the artist painted their images on.
They thought that the enamel gave them a better flexibility to mix the colours and apply the paint rather than a fairly quick drying auto paint.
The artist were quite happy using that paint, and it lasted very well.
The vehicle did many hundreds of thousands of kilometres and was washed every day.
Just the washing in the bus wash every day would sort out some of the paints I would imagine.
The vehicle ran around Australia for about 5 years before it went back to the original Pioneer colour scheme, so it lasted very well.
Pro Hart painted the back of the coach, and as far as I know, he also used the same type of paint on his Roller. He did the Rolls Royce about 1996 I think.
Hope this helps.
cheers
Dave

Ask a spray painter but I think you should wash it, clean the paint with Prepsol, use household paint (manufacturers say their water-based paints better than oil-based these days... unless you want a super high gloss finish then enamels still get the nod) as playing with automotive paints a lot more difficult, then cover it in a clear coat, either properly by a spray painter if you want it to last a long time, or DIY with spray cans. Much easier to get earthy colours in household paint too.

I had an emu painted on the side of my Patrol in 2005. The car has lived in the sun, wind and rain ever since and the emu still looks good.

The surface preperation was a quick rub with the heel of the artists hand. The emu was painted using artists oils. Like what Rembrandt used. I then had it covered with an auto acrylic which was applied by a very good spray painter.

It cost more than the emu.

Like I said earlier, it still looks good. Credit to Peter Brown.

Duncs

Our OKA is signwriters enamel on appropriately prepared fibreglass (except for the ants which are vinyl cut from 3M vinyl.
http://www.oka4wd.com/xt196.htm



It has survived remarkably well.

Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 Motorhome