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Originally Posted by deuce_roadster
I have painted a lot of cars and to me, fake patina looks just that, fake. Low gloss is easy to achieve with either a flattening agent in the color or a coat of matte luster clear. I have a 33 phaeton with the original top and a repaint from the 40s and I just leave it alone. Pictures in an album.
Good luck.
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But Mike, my goal has never been to take a truck with decent matching paint and make it look worse just to have 'patina'. Sure, some have, and I have seen some gawdawful attempts. Sometimes we don't want to spend what it costs today for a GOOD paint job (and prep) but our project is from different vehicles. When I built this truck it started with a utility trailer for sale beside the road in Spokane, Pristine 9' express box with Mercury tailgate, titled and licensed. Couldn't pass it up. Then I needed a truck to put it on so found a Meadow Green '59 f350 stakebed near home. Frame had all the factory drilled holes to mount my new box, but it's the wrong color. Mixed a batch of rustoleum flat white and flat black together. Fold in some Hunter Green and add cornstarch to suit. Test, change,add a bit of yellow. re-test.... I have some pics of it more completed, not perfect, but it looked way better than the metallic light blue.