New paint and stripes

[joek]

I finally got my trailer painted, after over two years of camping in bare aluminum. I love the colors, and I decided to go with a painted stripe, because I didn't want to deal with maintaining a polished aluminum stripe.

But I think they messed the stripes up. The layout on the sides looks way off to me, and the stripe width is only 1-1/2" wide, whereas I it believe should be 2". Is anybody else seeing what I see here?

[kevschofield]

I think your trailer looks fantastic..
Only the sharpest camper fans would even realize the stripe isn't 100% perfect.
They have it very close to original, but you are right about the width being slightly too narrow..
and the stripe should be slightly slanted down as it goes back from the front window..



But again, yours looks great and I wouldn't even give a second thought to the stripe..

[Hamlet]

Woah! Gorgeous, joek!

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Even looking a second or third time, I can't for sure say that I see what I thought was a minor slip in measuring....so there isn't anything that you should change...unless there is something that bothers YOU that much. LOVE the paint job, colors are great, stripe looks great...Nice Job!

[hellonwheels]

I think you're being too critical; it looks fantastic.

[tiajannet]

Dang that looks good!!!!!!!!
I sure like that style siding mine was redone with a real different deep scalp stuff i can't imagine how to paint it. yours is beautiful

[joek]

I appreciate the positive comments. I guess I am pretty critical, that's how I got it to the point it was before paint. I agree it does look very good, but I want it to look right. I have always felt that the stripes on the Shasta were very well proportioned, and break up the crease lines properly. I have seen quite a few Shasta's with different paint configurations, and plenty of them look great. But I think I should either depart from stock, or get it right. As Crw2620 pointed out, you have to look at it a couple times before you're sure it's not right. And I think that is my personal threshold, I don't want to look at it and think "that looks great, but... something seems a little off". That was my thought when I first saw it at the paint shop.

All that said, happily the paint shop owner agrees with me. He is going to repaint it. He only needs to paint it from the seem down, and the prep will be an easy quick sand, not all of the stripping and etching primer. So it will be a much easier the second time.

[skinnybumplip]

Wow the paint looks great we are thinking of doing our's ourself
Any suggestions. Yes the stripe dose look a little weird I would be upset if I paid someone
And they did that. Unless of coarse you taped it where you wanted the line then I guess
You have to bite the bullet on this one.

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[captaindemo17]

what color is that blue? very nice !

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jeok, Did you use tinted glass for the side dinette windows, was it Plexi? I like it.

[universalexports]

more pics, how about another pic like your very 1st one but without the front cut off, would make a great background for my computer.