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Title: camo job
Post by: 5 SHOTS on March 25, 2010, 07:49:42 AM
I decided to camo my pickup yesterday. I chose an earth tone, water soluble, easily applied type of camo. I just drove through then cleaned the windows enough so I could see. I do see a draw back to this type of camo job though. Being water soluble it will need to be reapplied after a good rain.













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Title: Re: camo job
Post by: pitw on March 25, 2010, 07:58:56 AM
Looks good.  I like the earthy tones and I wouldn't worry about rain to much where you live :nofgr:.
Title: Re: camo job
Post by: HaMeR on March 25, 2010, 08:21:56 AM
Dang nice jog you did there Art!!  I especially like the two tone along the bottom of the doors & they way you built it up there & feathered it out to a light spray toward the top. That's thinking outside the box man!!  :yoyo: :yoyo:

:nono: :nono:
Title: Re: camo job
Post by: 5 SHOTS on March 25, 2010, 08:25:30 AM
I walked out to make a quick stand and I'm sure glad i left it parked on the road.  :biggrin:
Title: Re: camo job
Post by: JohnP on March 25, 2010, 09:30:35 AM
Whoever did the work on that camo job sure knew their business.
Title: Re: camo job
Post by: Palegroe on March 25, 2010, 11:09:24 AM
I'm with Hamer I like the 3D affect under the doors and on the mirrors, a little something extra!   :yoyo:
Title: Re: camo job
Post by: slagmaker on March 25, 2010, 11:22:16 AM
Looks good! Only thing I see is you might try to get the headlights with a little more coverage. Them things can be seen from a long ways off if the sun hits them just right.
Title: Re: camo job
Post by: HaMeR on March 25, 2010, 12:11:23 PM
Quote from: slagmaker on March 25, 2010, 11:22:16 AM
Looks good! Only thing I see is you might try to get the headlights with a little more coverage. Them things can be seen from a long ways off if the sun hits them just right.

Yeah!! Cake the mud on em & clean a little square out in the middle WWII style!!  :yoyo: :yoyo:
Title: Re: camo job
Post by: Silencer on March 25, 2010, 02:19:35 PM
My boy and his friends seem to get theirs camo'ed up just like that  :yoyo:
Title: Re: camo job
Post by: Bopeye on March 25, 2010, 05:50:11 PM
I want my truck camo'd too. Pick me, Pick me.  :yoyo: :highclap:

That country sure looks familiar. Almost makes me want to take a little trip to see my kin.  :wink:
Title: Re: camo job
Post by: alscalls on March 25, 2010, 05:56:03 PM
We had one stuck BAD yesterday!   we had to pull it out and get the gen. so we could do some welding and drove it out.... :laf: :laf: I guess some fun costs $$   :eyebrownod:
Title: Re: camo job
Post by: Bopeye on March 25, 2010, 09:16:42 PM
Quote from: alscalls on March 25, 2010, 05:56:03 PM
We had one stuck BAD yesterday! 

Just out of curiousity, can you have one stuck GOOD?  :shrug:   Just wondering.  :laf:
Title: Re: camo job
Post by: HaMeR on March 25, 2010, 09:40:59 PM
If it's stuck good you'll get it out in one piece. If it's stuck BAD you're gonna need a mechanic.  :yoyo: :yoyo:
Title: Re: camo job
Post by: alscalls on March 26, 2010, 06:29:19 AM
Quote from: Bopeye on March 25, 2010, 09:16:42 PM
Quote from: alscalls on March 25, 2010, 05:56:03 PM
We had one stuck BAD yesterday! 

Just out of curiousity, can you have one stuck GOOD?  :shrug:   Just wondering.  :laf:


We had to lay on our backs in the mud and weld for about an hour....... Thats bad..... :laf: :laf:  I wish I had my camera as it took a FORD to pull out the jeep and Jimbo woulda loved that.... :eyebrownod:  even my eyes were caked with mud helping get it out..... when I got there ya couldnt see the head lights as they were that deep in the hole! just as we got him out of the hole the rear end twisted and the drive shaft broke....... the front end broke two holes earlier...... :laf: :laf:
But in the end the old ford over heated and my Dodge pulled both out to the flat bed....... :eyebrownod: :eyebrownod:  :laf:
Title: Re: camo job
Post by: Okanagan on March 26, 2010, 12:21:16 PM
Nice work on the camo, expertly done! 

I had what I figured was 150 pounds of mud on my Skuzzookee recently by the time I got back to pavement on a run I did from up in the Chilcotin down through the Gang Ranch in BC during an early spring breakup.  A measure of how a bad it was is that I stopped at Cache Creek and washed it off at a truck wash.  That astounded my wife, who doesn't think I ever wash it, and that I let the incessant rain here keep the mud coat manageable.  Trouble was that the wheel rims were packed with mud on the inside which I did not fully realize, and my wash job removed enough of it to make the tire balance WAAAAY out of whack.  I pulled off and crawled under it with a stick and pried enough mud off to even it out some.

Al, lying in the mud under a stuck vehicle, to repair it, is way down on the bad end of life experience.   Stuck Fords, Dodges etc....   seems like we pasted this song before but just in case.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDY6bWT5oTM&feature=related