To faux-tina or not to faux-tina...

[Wasted Income]

Guys who do fauxtina should have thieir arms lopped off at the elbow.

[JWheeler331]

Originally Posted by Wasted Income

Guys who do fauxtina should have thieir arms lopped off at the elbow.

Good thing about the Car/Truck Hobby is that there is a niche for everyone. If you like show trucks you will find plenty of guys who like those also. If you like rat rods there is a group of people for that. Faux-Tina, yep......a group of people who like those also.

Its your truck..... Just have fun with your truck.

[theastronaut]

Originally Posted by chevyrestoguy

I would study real, natural patina trucks for a long time before you decide to do this. To me, when a patina is faked, it looks 100% faked. Real patina is never consistent, and fake jobs always assume that every body line, edge and high spot automatically fade away. Untrue.

Exactly. My '64 VW still has it's original paint still and its starting to wear/fade through. It's not coming off evenly at all- once a spot hits primer it really starts to deteriorate from the primer out, not the paint down. So the same car can have spots that are evenly faded, and some patchy primer spots. There are other places where the paint is so thin that the primer shows through so it's a slightly different color. There are also two different colors of primer and it depends on how far its faded off as to what color shows.

Surface rust on original paint cars comes from underneath the paint, not on top!! You can't recreate that look. And it's usually rust stains, not really that much actual rust coming through the paint.

The biggest problem with recreating patina is that real faded patina keeps the orange peel of EVERY layer. The primer layer has orange peel, and the paint wears off the high spot of the peel, so the primer's orange peel shows through WHILE the paint still has orange peel on top of that. Can't reproduce that...

Originally Posted by Wasted Income

Guys who do fauxtina should have thieir arms lopped off at the elbow.

Can this post be a sticky??