My Bus,,, My Bus,,, My Bus...

[luggs]

perfect coler dude.....if i would have painted my yota that flat green....i would have got my 7 point last noght

 

[slednecks1124]

I wasnt talking crap, your doing good work :awesomework: I think it would have giving it a more modern luxury bus look if it was a bit different color maybe 2 tone

Its all good though :beer:

X2.....Still is bad ass either way though

 

[dirtygoat]

I wasnt talking crap, your doing good work :awesomework: I think it would have giving it a more modern luxury bus look if it was a bit different color maybe 2 tone

Its all good though :beer:

No prob... I wasn't taking it that way...

It's gonna have a bit of a military look...

I've got a picture in my head I'm shooting for...

Same way I designed the Blazer when I built it...

I've seen some really nice luxury conversion builds, I just need a mobile command post up in the woods while I'm wheelin...

 

[dirtygoat]

perfect coler dude.....if i would have painted my yota that flat green....i would have got my 7 point last noght

It's actually an Italian Olive Satin... I used Krylon rattle cans on the Blazer and a buddy got the bus paint matched for me... Not completely flat so it wont suck in oils and such... Check out the Krylon at Walmart...

 

[dirtygoat]

I got the roof painted and another coat on the rest of it yesterday... The morning dew dried and doesn't seem to be an issue...:cheer:

I'm gonna let it cure today and probably mask and shoot the black tomorrow...

Thanks to Casey(skinny pedal) for hookin' a brutha up with some color... I used up all two gallons... Cut it close, but it did the whole thing...

 

[luggs]

:awesomework:moble comand nice...elbe assult! opperation busy wild...sweet bus...woodstove in a bus is a hard one to beat...put u right to sleep after a long cold day ...or night on the slushy trail:redneck:

 

[dirtygoat]

I've been thinking about a few names for it... Have the acronym on the front and back, then spelled out on the sides... Here's a few I've been considering...

MUCV(Multi-Purpose Utility Command Vehicle) or (Mobile Utility Command Vehicle)...

MMUV(Mobile Multi-Purpose Utility Vehicle)...

MOCV(Mobile Off-Road Command Vehicle)...


Any others you guys can think of???

 

[Ty.]

NUB -- Northern Utility Bus


I like the green.:awesomework:

 

[kaptain kraker]

this is cool , always wanted a bus conversion . this is really a good tech build ..

 

[maverick98]

Looks great. Went from the short bus to the prison bus. Should be a fun rig though.

Kevin

 

[dirtygoat]

Prison Bus...:haha:

After it got primed the neighbor kept asking me if I was gonna take the whole neighborhood to church...:redneck:

As far as tech goes, anyone that has painted with a single stage kit already knows what is involved... For those that haven't, it's not bad once you get all the right info...

I talked to several auto paint suppliers in the area and everyone of them can lick my sweaty ball sack... Worthless ****ers... If you don't know the right terminology or come off like a newb, they really don't want to help you... And god forbid you mention that your not painting an old school hotrod or race car, the mere mention of a bus was enough to have them push me out the door...

Casey hooked me up with an acrylic urethane enamel that had to be mixed with a catalyst... I picked up a couple cans of reducer and some clear mixing cups with the mix ratios on the side... Poured 7 parts paint, 1 part catalyst and 2 parts reducer... I'm very happy with the outcome... Of course I didn't prep the bus the way you would for a nice job on a car, but I couldn't spend a couple months getting it ready for paint... The primer I used was an epoxy sealer kit you had to mix and it orange pealed a bit...

Shot it with a borrowed Harbor Freight gravity feed HVLP air gun at around 10 psi... Yeah I know HF sucks, but hey that's how I roll...:fawkdancesmiley:

I learned a lot about auto paint with this project... A lot about what not to do...:redneck:

 

[Nyitro]

Nice, hoping i could find some else that was painting their bus so that i could see what and how they did it.

 

[dirtygoat]

Started cutting up some diamond plate for the windows and to cover the holes at the top... Thanks Shane for the plasma assist...:beer:

Then started getting some black on it... I still have the other side I'll do tomorrow and paint the diamond plate for the back windows...

 

[pokey]

Prison Bus...:haha:

After it got primed the neighbor kept asking me if I was gonna take the whole neighborhood to church...:redneck:

As far as tech goes, anyone that has painted with a single stage kit already knows what is involved... For those that haven't, it's not bad once you get all the right info...

I talked to several auto paint suppliers in the area and everyone of them can lick my sweaty ball sack... Worthless ****ers... If you don't know the right terminology or come off like a newb, they really don't want to help you... And god forbid you mention that your not painting an old school hotrod or race car, the mere mention of a bus was enough to have them push me out the door...

Casey hooked me up with an acrylic urethane enamel that had to be mixed with a catalyst... I picked up a couple cans of reducer and some clear mixing cups with the mix ratios on the side... Poured 7 parts paint, 1 part catalyst and 2 parts reducer... I'm very happy with the outcome... Of course I didn't prep the bus the way you would for a nice job on a car, but I couldn't spend a couple months getting it ready for paint... The primer I used was an epoxy sealer kit you had to mix and it orange pealed a bit...

Shot it with a borrowed Harbor Freight gravity feed HVLP air gun at around 10 psi... Yeah I know HF sucks, but hey that's how I roll...:fawkdancesmiley:

I learned a lot about auto paint with this project... A lot about what not to do...:redneck:

Hey its all one color (ok two) and thats all that really matters. You should have fixed that dent on the rear passenger corner though. Looking good :awesomework:

 

[zukkev]

Fawking Sweet!!! One thing you could do to hide the war-wound on the back corner is take some of the diamond plate, and cut/roll cab corners to cover it up...:awesomework:

 

[dirtygoat]

There's little dents in a few different places... I wasn't really concerned with the body work... I could have spent most of the winter doing body work to make it perfect... It's one of those things that you have to make a judgment call on and time was getting short with the small window left in the weather to get done before winter...

I wont notice it while drinking beer next to the fire in the woods...:redneck:

 

[zukkev]

yabut, you could take it wheelin' then, and not have to worry about the corners!!!:redneck::redneck:

 

[nowires]

I think it is lookin great :awesomework: nice job

 

[nick c]

Can I borrow it? Would be a sweet tail-gater for a duck game. :redneck: Paint a big yellow O on the flat panel where the lift was.

 

[dirtygoat]

Got the passenger side awning installed today... Had to make some small plates to bolt to on the inside... Still have to install the driver side awning...