Chalkboard / Matt black Skoda estate!

[charliebob]

Just thought I'd show you how "surprisingly" well the painting of our car went the other day. It's a charity car taking part in the Mongol rally so we don't have to worry about reselling it but I think it has come out quite well. It took us a couple of afternoons some sanding paper, masking tape, a roller, a paint brush and a pot of blackboard paint, and is now what you see below!

This is only the first stage of our transformation, obviously we will be drawing on it with chalk but there is more to come and will post the results later.

Let us know what you think, I'm pretty happy with it and if I had another cheap car of my own I'd probably do it again!

Edited by charliebob on Monday 27th April 09:03

[khevolution]

first person to write "cock" in big capitals down the side wins!!!

its childish but oh so much fun!

[OllieWinchester]

Looks good, surely that is going to get seriously hot in the sun though isn't it?

[charliebob]

We are going to leave some chalk on the car and see how many cocks get drawn on it over night!

Yeah heat is probably going to screw us over, we did think of that but decided to go for style over function! (well I say style, it is still a felicia estate) Anyway the rally is meant to be difficult, don't want to make it easy by painting in white!

[arryb]

That actually looks really good - what is the finish like close up?

[clonmult]

arryb said:

That actually looks really good - what is the finish like close up?

I'm interested in the finish as well - in the pics it looks as good as those lovely black wraps seen on a variety of big/fast/expensive motors.

[charliebob]

I'll post some pictures of the finish soon so you can see for yourself. We could have taken more time over it and got better edges but generally the finish is pretty good with only two coats. Also we did it with blackboard paint so we could write on it, I'm sure a proper matt black paint would look better.

[Carpie]

I really fancy doing my E36 coupe out in Matt/Satin Black. I think it'd suit the lines of the car perfectly.

[Strike_J]

Seeing it just reminded me of nails being drawn across a black board. Horrible sound.

Car looks great though! Should ask some artsy fartsy students to do some drawings on it.

[charliebob]

Here are some close ups of the paint, not sure how well it really shows the finish. As you can see we went over a couple of times and didn't really finish it off the best we could of, it was a bit of a rush job to be honest

[PurelyRetro]

This reminds me when my brother spends many evenings getting the original paint off his Rover 214 and after about a week decided to spray it in matt black.

[Pow!]

Im sure a st load of noughts and crosses can be delt with on that

[pembo]

looks good mate, I did the same for my charity corsa because sticking newspaper to it wasn't working, have you tried writing on it and rubbing it off yet? The texture makes it a right pain and if you rub it down it comes out grey. I was impressed the other day when I came back to it on a street next to the uni and the students had found chalk to write all over it.

[ukshooter]

That looks pretty good. I had mine painted at the factory when new with airgun rather than roller but love the look of it. It is textured as well, much like the blackboard paint and that helps stop fingerprints showing.

Edited by ukshooter on Sunday 27th September 23:34