old_
Reader
8/28/16 3:13 p.m.
You'll never need a woody driving that thing around...
I think you can get good automotive vinyl wrap in woodgrain look.
You might just put the wood on the lower cladding covering the silver/champagne between wheel to wheel. This will also hide rust if needed and or work like paint protection.
Considering the remaining champagne color bumpers, I might choose a light wood like birch.
A respray would make your $500 car a $2000 car. I like the blue, just add Contact Paper with pinstriping above and below..
I thought you were looking for a woody ...wagon. .
Sample of wood low on the body rather than center.
XLR99
Dork
8/28/16 4:13 p.m.
Around here, camo seems to be the new woodgrain.
I think it looks fine as-is, but I'm kind of curmudgeon-ish and boring. Maybe some bigger, less 90s-tastic wheels and a small drop to make a VIPish look, but not so low you lose load carrying ability.
This is so much less interesting than I was thinking it was going to be and I came in with pretty low expectations.
I'd just use that home/craft project technique where you put down 2-colors of brown & drag/wiggle a tool through the wet top coat to create the "grain".
Wall-e
MegaDork
8/28/16 6:17 p.m.
See how much extra auto type vinyl is. We did shelf liner on my friend's truck and it shrank and peeled in about three months. I trimmed it with wood grained foam molding from Home Depot attached with liquid nails and that held up pretty nicely.
Woody
MegaDork
8/28/16 7:44 p.m.
Skip the woodgrain. Wrap the silver part is dark blue plaid vinyl.
To quote an early novel by Len Deighton, "There was a moment while we were all alone with our thoughts."
Woody wrote:
Skip the woodgrain. Wrap the silver part is dark blue plaid vinyl.
I would have expected that out of flightservice
Woody
MegaDork
8/28/16 9:09 p.m.
I probably should have cropped that down. I really did just start off searching for patterns of dark blue plaid and tartan. I swear!
Woody wrote:
I probably should have cropped that down.
No ... no you shouldn't have.