Velda's makeover is coming along, but
as these things go, she's looking a lot rougher now than she did
originally. Since we're still working on her exterior, we're racing
against the changing seasons. The forecast only provides us a few
hours of temperatures over 50 degrees in the next week, and with
showers forecast for that “hot” period tomorrow, we need to
finish cleaning her this morning so we can prime this afternoon –
and hopefully get a first coat of paint on!
After five test colors (four of which
appear below), we decided to go with a midnight blue. Velda is so big
that any bright color would make her visible from space by the naked
eye, so we decided that a very dark blue would help her disappear
into shadows (and at least not be overly-intrusive at night).
The paint guy at Fleet Farm helped us
determine that Bunker Hill's Old 55 Tractor & Implement paint was
the most appropriate paint they had: and having visited both Benjamin
Moore (who sent us back to Fleet Farm) and Sherwin-Williams stores
and been informed that they didn't have any remotely appropriate
paint, we didn't see much of an option. In much greater detail than
was necessary, and with repetition that was reminiscent of watching
paint dry, he described how to mix their darkest blue with a little
black to obtain the color we wanted. More and more customers began
milling around the paint station, waiting their turn to be
assisted...and on and on he went, describing once again how to
gradually mix the paints. We finally escaped his verbose and
hospitable customer service; paint, thinner, mixing bucket, and
sprayer joining the new generator in the back of the truck.
The sun is rising, and starting to melt
last night's frost on the lawn, so we're off to clean, tape, prime,
mix paint, and (fingers crossed) paint.
Be safe and have fun out there!
Ben
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