In preparation for its first foray into our roadtripping adventures with Easter in the Ozarks, the Civic is having a wardrobe change. It all started when Evan was bored:
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So we’re plastidipping the Wagovan. It’s a super cool vinyl paint that sets and lasts a long time, but can also be peeled off at anytime totally cleanly. He won’t tell me what color though. He’s keeping it a surprise for The Internet.
Oh I’m happy to help, and I’m even happier that this is happening to not my car.
Taylor. Though he would love to do this with the truck…
I was in Tulsa for CCDC over the weekend and after the competition ended, I spent part of Sunday afternoon helping Evan get it ready for painting. After many years in theatre, precision taping is one of my specialties.
Youki helped.
Oh good these are “Organic” vapor cartridges.
Evan. Getting his respirator ready.
Last time he did this was for the old Buggy back in 2014 when I lived in the garage apartment attached to this makeshift painting studio. I got royally high on paint fumes; it was deeply unpleasant. So we both put on our PPE to only modest effect, as it turns out.
Oh good. My coffee breath is going straight into my nose.
Taylor. Also it was about to get a whole lot worse.
And then we got to it. Or rather, Evan got to it, and I was on sprayer hose management duty:
Plasti Dip is a solvent paint so each layer dissolves and mixes in with the coat below it, producing a very nice, even coat after a few layers. Unfortunately, Evan got a little ahead of me and there was an incident with the hose…
Evan tried to blow it out, which caused the ripples to spread outward from the hose-impact. Then we tried painting over it and wiping it down, but because the the lower coats had been liquefied, we ended up being able to see all the way through to the door paint. We decided to let it cure as-is so Evan can either sand smooth or just peel off and start over on that panel. Thankfully peeling and re-painting is actually pretty easy because it’s pretty self-leveling as the paint is applied.
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Fast forward to Monday, while I was out with Kate at the climbing gym, Evan did a wet sand on Sunday’s little boop.
Remember that this is primer! The smoothing out of the error is flawless. It is smoother than the original paint that sprayed down, but another coat or two of the primer, and I seriously believe it won’t be noticeable at all.
I ended up having to leave Tulsa before Evan was able to finish this. He’d been keeping the color a secret, but he finally posted the results of our handiwork. Intense teal it is!
Boop repaired!
I think it looks great. He’s going to do more cleanup around the masking and trim parts before we head out.
Meanwhile, Xterra the Younger celebrated a birthday two ways this week. Can’t believe it’s been a year.
Twenty-thousand miles with me One year
