Re: Dave B's Quad
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 9:22 pm
Hi All,
Another productive weekend over and the weather was hot and sunny, ideal for a spot of spraying. So now I have a quad in one colour although I still need to spray the rear roof, just waiting for the weather to improve again. What is it with the weather here, one minute its hot and sunny and the following day sunny but the temperature drops by 10degrees with a strong northerly wind.
Now for those all important little details like the horse shoe I made after asking a friend to find an old horse shoe that I photo copied, reduced to 1/6 and made a copy, now all I have to do is spray and weather it before attaching to the front bumper.
Also made my own decals, which are easy to distress (not all by desire). One thing to note that although they print onto transparent decal material which is backed on white paper, the white areas on the decals are in fact also transparent. I will need to mask areas on the quad and spray a slight off white before applying the decals. It was good to try them out on a test card first. I produced the test card to also allow me to test weathering techniques prior to going for broke on the actual quad.
I hope that you all stay safe and keep well in these difficult times
Best regards
Dave B
Another productive weekend over and the weather was hot and sunny, ideal for a spot of spraying. So now I have a quad in one colour although I still need to spray the rear roof, just waiting for the weather to improve again. What is it with the weather here, one minute its hot and sunny and the following day sunny but the temperature drops by 10degrees with a strong northerly wind.
Now for those all important little details like the horse shoe I made after asking a friend to find an old horse shoe that I photo copied, reduced to 1/6 and made a copy, now all I have to do is spray and weather it before attaching to the front bumper.
Also made my own decals, which are easy to distress (not all by desire). One thing to note that although they print onto transparent decal material which is backed on white paper, the white areas on the decals are in fact also transparent. I will need to mask areas on the quad and spray a slight off white before applying the decals. It was good to try them out on a test card first. I produced the test card to also allow me to test weathering techniques prior to going for broke on the actual quad.
I hope that you all stay safe and keep well in these difficult times
Best regards
Dave B