270Handiman's 1649 Custom Flat Project

[270Handiman]

Now on to actual PAINT!

Applied an OD Green base coat using Krylon spray cans. If I were applying a glossy topcoat, I would have used my air gun, but for a dead flat OD green finish, the rattle cans worked great.

Outside painted, inside still in various other stages: (Also notice the 2 pad eyes on the top rails. These were removed and smoothed.)

Contrast between paint and primer: (also in this pic you can see the last remaining bits of bedliner on the two handrails. It is gone now, thank goodness. I hate that mess!)

 

[270Handiman]

Now the fun starts.

I have a Mossy Oak Shadow Grass stencil kit from Styx River. I plan to paint the entire boat inside and out. The only part that will not be painted is the bottom of the hull (I hiding from ducks, not fish!) I went into this knowing it would take some time, so I work on it when I have time and never get in a hurry. Luckily, this boat doesn’t need to be ready in the spring to fish, but rather in the fall for hunting season. The stencil kit is pretty straight forward. You start with the brown base pattern, add the black “break up” pattern, then you finish it off with the light colored grass pattern. There is really not much other commentary I can add to the process; so I’m just gonna post a bunch of pictures.

First I made a couple sample boards to see which way I wanted to go with it (tip I got from a buddy - Thanks Gary!). I went with the one on the left.

Thanks for looking!

 

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Now it's starting to look good!

 

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You will notice that there are some areas in the boat that are either not complete, or that haven’t been started yet. Some of this is because I had wiring or fuel lines in the way at the time. The area around the rear bench is not complete because of a bunch of brackets and stuff that the previous owner added are still there and are in the process of being cut off. And still more of it (i.e. – front deck and top of rear bench seat) is going to have Hydra-turf on it and doesn’t need to be done really. Also, the aluminum floor that will go in soon will cover all of the existing floor.

 

[RBuffordTJ]

WOW! =D>

That looks great man! What a great job!

Bufford in Orlando

 

[russ010]

GREAT job!!!

that may be the best camo paint job I have ever seen... wow

 

[270Handiman]

After working around the motor and cables this whole time, and struggling to make it all work with the motor in the way, ……….

I now have a reason to remove the motor and all the wiring harness.

It’s gonna be a nice addition to this project, but dang I could have saved myself some headache just taking the motor off in the first place. Now I have to do all of this kind of stuff…….

 

[270Handiman]

Here are some before and after pics of some of the miscellaneous brackets I had to remove from the interior before I could finish the interior painting…..

 

[ober51]

That looks professional - great freaking job =D>

 

[Waterwings]

Nice work! 8)

 

[perchin]

This paint job leaves me in awe.... =D> =D> =D>

 

[Mojo]

Great Job! That looks totally awesome.

 

[sturdi87]

Amazing job on the paint, very impressive. Thanks for the pics!

 

[Brine]

Ditto the comments on the paint. Has to be one of the best I've seen. =D>

 

[switchback]

Man, I was loving the paint before the last step then seen the last one. Great job!!