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Hats off to you for sticking with this 3 year project. It looks incredible.
2022 Ford F550 - DIY - Adventure Expedition Vehicle Build Thread
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Thanks Blowby!
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Three long years and still counting
🤯............🤣.Thanks Fly fisherman; more to come.
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LINEX - Exterior of Truck & Camper - Complete
I snapped some quick pics. The lighting is not the greatest and we were in a hurry to beat an incoming rain storm (2 hour drive from the LINEX shop to the interior paint shop). Rigging the camper and transporting the steel-camper-stand around on a car trailer is getting old, but you just gotta get it done.
Here are the door jambs, color matched and the cut line from LINEX to paint.
LINE-X of Clatsop County
Address: 781 Avenue A, Seaside, OR 97138
Phone: (503) 739-7556
CeeCee is the owner and she ROCKS!
I snapped some quick pics. The lighting is not the greatest and we were in a hurry to beat an incoming rain storm (2 hour drive from the LINEX shop to the interior paint shop). Rigging the camper and transporting the steel-camper-stand around on a car trailer is getting old, but you just gotta get it done.
Here are the door jambs, color matched and the cut line from LINEX to paint.
LINE-X of Clatsop County
Address: 781 Avenue A, Seaside, OR 97138
Phone: (503) 739-7556
CeeCee is the owner and she ROCKS!
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Interior Paint - Carbon Fiber Composite Camper
Straight from rigging the camper at the LINEX shop and into the paint booth for the interior paint.
When I first visited their site, they had a huge yacht in the booth. It's hilarious to see my dinky little camper and a small ski boat in there 😆.
Did I mention that rigging the camper and trailering that stand around is getting old? 🤪.
I won't go into much detail, as I've already expressed the point of how hard it was to find and lock down a shop for the exterior coating, but know that the process to find a shop to paint the interior of the camper was even more of a pain. Maybe a PITA x 4, as opposed to a PITA x 2.
I ended up going with a paint shop in the marine industry, one that paints boats/yachts. No, it's not because I'm loaded and just love to spend more money on things than I need to. They are one of the few shops that met the 1. Capable, 2. Confident and 3. Wanted to criteria, as previously discussed. In the end, they were actually cheaper than other shops in other industries.
Many of the automotive, commercial, semi truck, trailer, etc. shops wanted nothing to do with the project (in general and/or because it was composite). The few that were (somewhat) willing to take the project on wanted way too much money. The "we normally don't do projects like this, but we're willing to give it a shot", combined with the high price tag, was not comforting.
I'm not saying this will always be the case if you have a composite camper/interior, but I wished I would have listened to Wild's advice earlier on in the process, to just stick with finding a shop in the marine industry for painting the interior. This would have saved me so much time.
The other benefits beyond the chosen shop being: capable, confident, wanting to and more reasonably priced is, the primer/paint will also be super durable, epoxy based and what they use as a top coat on boat/yachts. Between LINEX on the outside and a marine top coat paint on the inside, I don't know how I can get any more of a rugged and refined set up.
Just don't ask me how much all of this is costing 🙄............, because I won't tell you. It'a good thing I don't have a wife or kids yet. If I did, I would be in BIG trouble!!!!
Straight from rigging the camper at the LINEX shop and into the paint booth for the interior paint.
When I first visited their site, they had a huge yacht in the booth. It's hilarious to see my dinky little camper and a small ski boat in there 😆.
Did I mention that rigging the camper and trailering that stand around is getting old? 🤪.
I won't go into much detail, as I've already expressed the point of how hard it was to find and lock down a shop for the exterior coating, but know that the process to find a shop to paint the interior of the camper was even more of a pain. Maybe a PITA x 4, as opposed to a PITA x 2.
I ended up going with a paint shop in the marine industry, one that paints boats/yachts. No, it's not because I'm loaded and just love to spend more money on things than I need to. They are one of the few shops that met the 1. Capable, 2. Confident and 3. Wanted to criteria, as previously discussed. In the end, they were actually cheaper than other shops in other industries.
Many of the automotive, commercial, semi truck, trailer, etc. shops wanted nothing to do with the project (in general and/or because it was composite). The few that were (somewhat) willing to take the project on wanted way too much money. The "we normally don't do projects like this, but we're willing to give it a shot", combined with the high price tag, was not comforting.
I'm not saying this will always be the case if you have a composite camper/interior, but I wished I would have listened to Wild's advice earlier on in the process, to just stick with finding a shop in the marine industry for painting the interior. This would have saved me so much time.
The other benefits beyond the chosen shop being: capable, confident, wanting to and more reasonably priced is, the primer/paint will also be super durable, epoxy based and what they use as a top coat on boat/yachts. Between LINEX on the outside and a marine top coat paint on the inside, I don't know how I can get any more of a rugged and refined set up.
Just don't ask me how much all of this is costing 🙄............, because I won't tell you
. It'a good thing I don't have a wife or kids yet. If I did, I would be in BIG trouble!!!!
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