well good morning youtube hope you guys are doing well you look behind me you can
see some plans to do something crazy here with the rv we're gonna do something crazy today
hey guys thanks for joining me here on the nomadic fanatic channel i'm eric jack's the cat is inside
the rv you'll see him in a little bit kind of windy and chilly so i'm wearing a hoodie to
start the day but i got a project here and i'll be uploading this video with some nomad internet
link below if you need some mobile unlimited internet here and take a take a look i got
some painters tape all over the side of my rv and you may also remember from my april fools video
i had removed my round custom nomadic fanatic logo on the rv oh my gosh it's nomadic fanatic
also the one on top of the windshield there that said nomadic fanatic this will be the first time i
really addressed this because uh for the last six years of my life on youtube i've been really into
advertising the channel i've been pushing that uh you can reach up to a thousand people a day
on the interstates at advertising your channel i even put one on here last year on the smart car
to advertise the channel and um i moving forward things are changing um i i reach a good enough
audience i have a good base i have i have some really good subscribers out there i'm comfortable
with the channel's growth and for that reason i have decided to go back to a little more stealth
look and you can't just take off the round decal and leave it open because it looked really weird
so i am redoing my decals yeah so in order to understand what that means these are all vinyl
decals i do not have painted on decals except for on the bottom here this whole section from here
is paint but all of the decals from coachmen that are not even in very good condition
they are just stickers and some of them have not fared as well in the sun and the weather
and everything so i have actually been carefully planning this out for quite some time as you can
see i've got my tape lines in in many cases these tape lines are where the old decals were
in in other ways they are completely brand new by design since i have nomatic fanatic and text
up there that's why there's that extra little leg right there that's going to cover some of the text
i know i'm not going to be able to completely disguise the old logo on here because of the
fact that two years of sun and fade you'll you'll always kind of see it but what we'll be able to
do is with these new graphics you'll be able to trick your eye into no longer seeing the the faint
decal behind it now if you're worried that i'm not going to be able to pull this off what if i told
you i already did this one right here yeah that's right this whole decal right here this brown one
i did myself uh-huh used to be red in fact same thing on the front you guys probably remember
since i've had this rv this stripe right here has always been red and now it's brown because
i didn't like the red on both sides over here on this side too and actually yeah now you can really
see it in the sunlight it really turned out well um i used a a matte color because i'm going to
wax the whole rv anyway we're going to get that shine back that we've almost kind of lost in some
places it's been a couple years so i'm going to eventually put that wax back on and then
this brown will be glossy again and then again over here on the passenger side i kind of taped it
off and marked where everything's going to go can you kind of faintly see some of the old logo there
yeah again we got some stuff coming down to cover the text of the logo and i got
this good tape that doesn't bleed so and i've got really crisp lines so i know it sounds terrifying
painting your own rv with decals but like i said it did work the first time and i'm really happy
with that brown although i still need to uh touch up where you can kind of see the old red in there
uh-huh so let me get a couple things prepared here and i will show you what products i'm gonna use
and uh how i'm gonna go about doing this today thanks for joining me guys okay so i got my
rolling pins i got a roller outside with these little three inch smaller rollers i went with bear
ultra stain blocking this is paint and primer it's exterior satin enamel did all this at lowe's
i picked out the colors from a sheet i don't have the sheet with me but i brought a sheet out
to the exterior of the rv and picked my three earth tones so here is the gray that i picked
here's the brown that you've already seen and then also a uh a black that matches the existing black
on some of the sticker decals out there so i got three quarts of paint and uh yeah that's how we're
gonna do it outside on the other two decals that i did that's that's two coats so you have to put
a coat on then you have to wait two hours before applying a second coat well two to four hours
let's probably wait four hours it'll probably be better since we're getting a start here at
about 11 a.m but there's always prep work and prep work is always the part that takes a lot longer
than actually painting so and then so because i'm choosing to simply paint over some of the existing
decals in some places not everywhere but i do have to paint over some in some places these are
impossible to take off i've tried it just chips it doesn't matter how much you heat it up and they're
there they do not come off nicely so in order to get the paint to really adhere to this
i'm using some of this this scotch stuff and and basically i'm just going through and i'm really
scuffing it all up and that that takes a little bit of process but i just go through and then
i'll hop on the ladder and get the ones on the top and we're just gonna scuff all this
and then after i get done doing that i'm gonna wash all the surfaces with some really good
uh chemical i forgot what i'm using but anyway yeah gotta get that done so i'll go ahead and
do this to all my decals and then get back to you all right and while i'm waiting for the alcohol to
dry on all the decals now it's probably a good time to say don't do what i do blah blah blah
consult your professional blah blah blah i know there's 200 million of you in the
comments telling me i did everything wrong and you're a professional and so much better than
me blah blah give those guys a cookie i'm just showing you how i'm doing it also i'm not just
throwing this together last minute i've actually got blueprints there's actually a plan here
i'm only using three colors but i've got the driver's side with all the decals
laid out like they are on the back there jeez it is just incredibly windy today
but i've got brown gray marked gray black so i kind of looked at it and decided
how i'm gonna mix the colors together to make them more realistic because from the factory you
know they went gray gray gray black red and it's just all over the place so i'm going a little more
like planning out my my neutral colors over here and the way i'm gonna do this is i'm gonna start
with one color i'm gonna fill my pan and i'm gonna go through and i'm gonna do all the browns at one
time start from this end go to the other side by the time i get done i'm gonna be able to wrap up
the brown and then i'm gonna switch to black and then i'm gonna do gray and by the time we get
done with gray it'll be at least over two hours i'll be able to start back over with the second
coat of the brown and start the whole process back over in between i'll probably start doing my my
cut ins along those those tricky areas with the brush also but um let's roll on some paint y'all
i've actually decided to start with black since that's what's on the
bottom we're going to start with black here and uh gosh the wind is ridiculous
i tried to come over here to the side of the building where there's no wind and it's just
ridiculous i'm not going to try to attempt to film this whole thing because it's just
too crazy windy and it's really going to slow me down but i will at least give you a little
shot here of how well this works on the first coat this is also why i'm not spray painting
because it never stops being windy in illinois
where you going uh where you going hello i needed that yeah i guess i got to keep everything inside
when i'm not using it we'll open this uh black up and get her get her stirred up here
i also kept this paint up in the dashboard of the rv there in the sunlight
so that it didn't get too cold so it's it should be ready to go here
all right and then we'll get started here with some paint in here
and we'll go take this over there and i'll show you some of my first lines here
all right last chance again don't do what i do
there we go the first layer of paint it's just a tack on like i said you can you can even see
through it in some places but uh let that dry keep working around and then i will show you
i will show you after i get done with all my colors come back with a second coat on this
what this looks like a second time because again there it is up close so we shall see
all right guess what first coat is done with all three colors remember this brown right here this
this is two coats okay so don't don't judge me by the fact that you can see through some of the
blacks and grays and browns on here but i'm gonna stand back so we can take a look and if you just
kind of judge it with the front it fits although it does need to be glossy so right now it's satin
later on it's going to be glossy with some high gloss the wind almost knocked me off the ladder
it's ridiculously windy but this is the only day i had to do this really because the rain's coming
and i already had all the tape and everything so i'm going to go ahead and take a quick little
break um i did cut in around the gray around the window with the gray but i forgot to do it
uh with the black and the brown i forgot to cut in so before i do my second coat rolled on i do need
to bring those two brushes out and fix those two but you know it is coming along right now it looks
weird because you got the crisp edges of the old decals and you're looking at the green tape and
it just doesn't look good but the most satisfying thing is going to be later on pulling off all this
tape and getting those crisp lines passenger side same thing you can see through the brown in a few
places but uh we've got some really crisp lines in here when i pull this tape off and it's gonna look
amazing all right well my rolling arm is a little tired we're done guys two coats decals all cut in
the paint is not even dry yet it is time for the most satisfying part of all and that is
pulling that tape and seeing those awesome lines i can't wait let's take a closer look because i
do want to remind my viewers i'm not going for perfection i am not a professional however i'm
doing it my way and this is going to be art really let's just call it art okay that's what it is uh
it's killing me i want to take this tape off all right everybody say it with me pull that tape
i am so happy with how this turned out and just putting a little bit of brown back into the old
part right here that i didn't really change i didn't change anything on this particular slide
except change that red to brown and now that brown theme continues on into the back i'm gonna show
you the touch up i gotta do nothing's perfect i wasn't going for perfect but from a distance it
looks amazing again realize that it is just a matte finish right now it still needs to
be glossy like the bottom down here and that's coming soon we got some issues here where see
how the gray came down even though i got the good tape still gonna have to use my nail right now and
pretty much see how easy that was i'll have to fix that a few times some paint got over the
edge right there but it's still i can still get it off with my nail once i set the camera down
but uh yeah came out really nice again we'll step back here you can see the front how it goes all
the way through to the back you can still kind of see my old logo see if you look carefully you
can see my round nomadic kinetic logo barely but with the new decals are taking control of
your eyes that's what you're seeing now i think it came out great i'm really really happy with this
project spend about an hour more kind of cleaning up everything i'm gonna get a little razor knife
and some alcohol some goof off and make it look all purty you know i could have used your help
out there today jax i could have i was up on my seal doing all the hard work he's while you were
and you're sleeping and now you're biting me and i don't know why i was good and i fed you little
putts i'm not calling you that anymore that's right so let me look at my schedule for the next
couple days and and and check the forecast and things like that and see if see if i can fit in
four or five coats of zep polish on the outside of the rv and that that'll also kind of help conceal
it and kind of protect the paint because for the next couple months it's still going to be a little
little vulnerable around the edges you know but if i get that glossy wax coat surface on there it's
kind of just encased in there but that also means that i got to do a whole deep clean of the orbee
and i don't know if i'm up for that i should be i should just do it right now while i got it but
been talking with robert who is in the area he may be coming over i would love to have him
fix my manifold exhaust leak one more time a fifth time now uh we got we got a new plan this time
because we do believe that something is warped in there it doesn't matter how many times you fix it
it's always going to come back but yeah let me let me check my schedule and see what's going on
even though i'm staying here at the shop at modified auto i'm gonna have to take the car
over to base camp tonight and do a couple things because we are expecting a freeze
yeah supposed to freeze tonight i thought we were done with freezing temperatures okay other than
that the other really cool thing is that here in alton i'm in east alton right now but in alt in
the town over they just opened a brand new theater during a pandemic i know that sounds crazy right
and i forgot the name of it something like rnc theaters or something like that but there's a new
theater that that's open so uh shawn and jill and i are gonna go check that out and see what it's
like uh anyway i'll get back to you here in two days guys have a good one thanks for watching bye
you