The last pic is how my truck looks right now. My friends truck looks Old School patina, and he has no plans to change it, it really looks good. It took about 2 minutes to do, and cost about 25 cents to faux patina. This is a good idea for a "post your faux" thread. The piece in the pics is a glove box, from a 48 Ford truck. In fact, what your truck looks like now would probably help us say whether or not to go faux it for real. So, in that respect, I'm a big fan of faux.Ĭan't wait to see pics. But it's cheap to experiment with and you can always just start over. I think doing it WELL is probably as hard as a real paint job. And I LOVE the trucks they build and I do LOVE that truck too, just not the paint (or the copper grille they just did - but I need to see how it fades quickly, maybe I'll change my tune).īottom line - i think faux is ok/cool if done well. When RACE acquired the truck from Cape Town it already looked this way, so finishing off the exterior only required a few signature touches to be applied. Sometimes I look at it and think, kinda cool - other times, bleccchh. And yes, it’s real, not a wrap or faux patina finish. It doesn’t require a paint booth or a ton of equipment. Theirs looks like multi coats of paont that were sanded through. Generally, were panel beaters and spark makers, we find painting to be a chore, but we find that painting faux patina is one of the funnest painting processes we do with any regularity because it’s an art form it encourages experimentation and it’s pretty tough to mess it up. Even faux tina should at least look like some tina. I gotta say though, I am NOT a big fan of how the Trucks guys did their 48 chev (or whatever year it was). I'll admit, i prefer real patina because it looks so cool, BUT, your case is a good candidate for a shop truck approach (in my pea brain).
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