C30 dually project goes patina

[Orange67]

You are doing a great job on your truck, and giving me ideas for mine too! Keep it up.

[fishnixon]

Awesome build! Look forward to watching this one! Love the glass packs… Sisu!

[flatbed67]

Thank you Orange67, for the nice words. Good to hear that someone likes my way of tackling this project. It's also fun to see that someone is actually taking a look at this thread
Good to see that you know the Finnish sisu, fishnixon! I hope I have some of it in me.

Today I was going to get help to tackle the task of straightening the front bumper on the truck. I looked pretty hopeless. Some sturdy material it is made from too, and it looked beat up. It had taken a hit on the right hand side, and somenone had probably backed out of a tight place, almost leaving the drivers side end of the bumper behind at some point.



I took the bumper to Kim's body shop, he had promised to try and take a look at it, and man, did he persuade it into submission!
Using first a sledge hammer, then two smaller, but still big hammers to fine tune it, and a shrinker to help with getting it straightened out.
It got dark before I had a chance to take a pic of the truck with the bumper back on, but I'll post a pic as soon as I can.
Like a teaser, huh?

[flatbed67]

The sun got up, and I was able to take a pic of the front of the truck.
It looks much better now. Not perfect, but it fits the rough look nicely



This pic was shot today, the previous one when the truck arived, that's why the gray paint is still there.

[Martino patina]

I love the look of your truck comming along nicely, I'm doing a gmc 3500 patina truck. I personally think patina with a few very nice elements on the truck makes it more interesting to veiw and gets peoples attention at car shows. In my opinion your truck would look great with some nice new or very nice old lettering on the hood.

[flatbed67]

Thank you, Martino patina, for that.
Regarding the letters on the hood: If you read my thread from the beginning, you might have noticed that the text on this truck was hidden under a layer of paint. Only thing I added was some repair work on a one of the doors, where I had been sanding away the text almost completely by mistake. After sanding off the gray paint, I just squirted on some flat clear.
So depending how you see it, it's not fake patina, I just had to get the paint covering the patina off.
The hood is very rusty, so any lettering that would have been there wouldn't show anymore. To put any text there, I would have to media blast it, epoxy, sand, seal, paint, sand, text, sand angain and whatnot, to get it to look like it belongs.... Nah, too big a risk that it wouldn't look right.
I might have followed your suggestion if it all were a new faux patina paint job, because the idea isn't bad at all