Re: Making new paint look old??
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Originally Posted by signsup
You'll end up melting your tires.
Most of my paint work has been with flat military green paint. What they called lusterless. I am sure you can work with flatening agents to get that flat, almost chaulky finish. And, if you wnt with a slightly lighter shade by adding some white to the color and painting the top surfaces with the lighter shade and blending it or feathering it down onto the sides, you would get a sun faded appearance IMO. You got nothing to loose, experiment until you are happy with the results. Primer first, play with the paint and lightly sand or scuff up through the top layer until you get to some primer and just play with it.
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Your method pretty much describes on the trucks that Good OL' Pete enlarged above. Lighter and flatter on the flat surfaces. The part about 'nothing to lose' has always been my mantra in this type of painting. Too shiney? Too dark? Just fog on another layer.
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