Saturday, August 11, 2012

Today... I started painting the Aloha.   I paper & taped her stripe off this morning... chose my colors and went to Ace to pick up some paint.   I chose a Semi-Gloss indoor/outdoor paint that works on aluminum siding.  I chose the color Autumn Reverie which is a salmonie pink.  
 When I came home I set my materials up and sponged on the paint on the bottom half of the trailer only.  I painted the lower half of the door and the storage door a solid Autumn Reverie.  I even Painted the lower half of the Propane tanks.

   After a while I began removing the tape and paper and was dissappointed... the Reverie goes good with the front of the trailer colors, but the pink under the stripe is too pink... the salmon pink looks off.
   So I chose a Flamingo-ie pink and headed back down to Ace.... it was just turnin 6 pm and they were closed.  Bummer.  I will head down there tomorrow morning to get more paint.   I came home and paper & taped off the trailer again and since I will be only sponging over the salmon paint I will create a two tone look.   I also decided to tape off the solid doors into stripes just for fun.  The Propane bottles will also be striped lower.  
   I hesitate to completely paint the the entire tank, I've heard that they won't fill the bottles if they are painted.  One has a couple of labels on it but the other, I think older bottle, doesn't.  I'm gonna check with Bleyhls this week.
    Here are some pics of the Work in Progress....

 I went to the Yakima Valley Jr. Fair in Grandview today... I heard there would be some "Sisters" there.  I didn't find the sisters, but I did find a Vintage Horse Trailer being used as a Food Booth.


I talked to the owner and she says they've been hauling their food appliances for quite a few years, unloading and loading at each function.  Then they decided to just arrange it and use the trailer as part of their booth.   Like so many Vintage Travel Trailer's being converted into food booths, I thought this was a great idea.  You basically don't have to gut it as there is no fixtures in it to begin with.

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