BIG install

LOL!

until you build them, whether it's motorized or not there all built in the same way out of same things.

nice coach....nice rats nest of wires....better you than me my friend, but with your talent, the kids should be alright lol haha!

looks like the pollution control on a Mazda haha

all that money in that ride and it stills rockin a small tube tv. i like your custom labels! Where is this things parked,i see alot of plants?

Look again at the pic just before the rats nest - thats a plasma tv with the camera reflection on it. As for the garage, thats his personnal garage at work. In the first pic, upper left corner is an LCD TV in the open stairwell leading up to the second floor.

As for the custom labels - hey, we all get old and forgetful sometime

I used to work for a place painting those things. We did it for a company that was trying to get into the custom motorcoach end of it. They are big in fifth wheel and travel trailers.

Those things were a pain to paint. And they had to be dang near perfect.

Ok, seein as you have actually painted one of these beasts I just gotta ask.... How much frickin paint does it take? Having walked on the roof of this one I realize some (most) are not painted but this thing has a LOT of surface area! Not to mention the fact that you must have been in a boom lift to get an even coat from top to bottom. When you say "pain to paint" I can certianly believe that!!!

It's been a while but we used three different colors. These are all unreduced #'s. 5 gallons of the main color 3 of each accent and like 9 gallons of clear. When we got done you could not feel the lines in the graphics, I know that's probably not a big deal on a mazda or other vehicle but when you have 50' of motorcoach and you've seen how many graphic lines there are in them. We blocked the sides out to take the waves out of the fiberglass, and we hand laid all the graphics out. We also wet sanded and buffed them to a mirror finish.

We were kinda of a small shop with a good reputation for our work, so it was kinda make shift setup at first. Had a small little scaffold to work on to get to the top. We also had to pull the airbag controls to get it to air it out to fit in the shop.

Wow - thats a lot of clear! Guess I never thought about the wet sanding issue. My daughter and I spend many an hour sanding her truck and we probably used just over a 1/2 gallon of clear (unreduced).

LOL - huskerdually, does that refer to your monster arms after sanding for a week straight. Still having a tough time imagining taking a gelcoat shell and making it "flat", especially when theres as many curves as an airport runway (none!)

Knowing how big the garage is that it's currently parked in I can image your dificulty in getting one of these in a normal shop.