to stripe or not to stripe when painting

[oldcarbuff]

I am in the process of laying out the paint pattern on the camper. '64 1500. I am planing on white over turquoise and then the 2" stripe. I like the idea of the polished aluminum but have no idea what the maintenance issues are. Can someone help me out with a little advice.

If the stripe is polished does one top coat with clear to protect? If not how often does it require to re-polish and is that not a mess on the surrounding paint. If one does not re-polish will it naturally patina?

How about silver or gray paint. What have others used?

I greatly appreciate some advice and assistance.

Mark

[Nana B]

I like the sliver idea. That I believe is the original. Good luck & show us your finished product ok.

[boandsusan]

It will naturally patina with out a protective coat or continuous polishing. Polishing does cause a little mess on the surrounding paint but wipes off with a clean rag. We use sharkhide on our boat after polishing the aluminum it protects it for several years. I intend using it on the Shasta once everything is polished. We used 2 inch blue pin-striping on our Shasta. I found it online, they also had silver. I like the pin-striping as it gives a super clean line between the 2 paint colors. Hope this helps.

[oldcarbuff]

boandsusan, do you mean the tape put down to cover the polished area before you paint? You then take it off to reveal the shiny stripe between the painted halves?

[Hamlet]

We had the stripe painted silver. When we reskinned him, the new aluminum came with a base coat, and it would have cost a fortune to have it removed for painting. I found a color that came really close to the color of polished aluminum.

[boandsusan]

Apr 18, 2013 7:28:43 GMT -5 oldcarbuff said:

boandsusan, do you mean the tape put down to cover the polished area before you paint? You then take it off to reveal the shiny stripe between the painted halves?

Not to use to tape off, we used auto quality pin-striping for our z stripe. It was $32 inc shipping. Its real simple to apply and looks just like paint and it follows the contours in the skin, giving a nice crisp, clean line. I`ve painted stripes and the ridges in the skin made it nearly impossible to get a really sharp line when masking/taping off.

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[Gone Kayaking]

I so far have left the aluminum bare where the stripe is. That is the original at least on the 56, though I modified teh original paint design to be more in keepign with the later 50's early 60's with the wider and lower stripe vs the thin higher stripe on the 56 and 57's

[universalexports]

I would like to do the stripe in the original aluminum highly polished, then coat it with sharkhide.