Rocker panel front/rear valence paint question (stock), "Dull Black" according to manual... Texture? Options

[chmillman]

Have now removed the rocker panels and the front/rear valences to have them repainted. Currently the paint on all of those parts has what I would call a "medium texture" - the texture and gloss levels vary bit because I think the various parts may have been repainted at different times by different people.

The manual just states "dull black". Doesn't say anything about texture (or degree of "dull"-ness for that matter). The roof is textured of course, I think that may have actually done in the fiberglass originally. But it does not say anything about texture on the lower parts. The manual also includes the non-chrome bumpers on '73+ Euro models in the "dull black" description.

So, texture or no texture? Texture is often put on to hide imperfections. I remember "back in the day" when as an ID modelmaker I used to paint parts with 2K polyurethane paint (Polane, highly toxic) to get that "IBM typwriter" texture popular back then. IBM painted their metal Selectric typwriter frames with a thick, coarse-textured coating of the stuff to hide all the imperfections from their metal fab.

[DennisV]

So, texture or no texture?

Lot's of existing threads on rockers and valance coating / paint. Depends on how much effort you want to get to make it original. I think this is the most comprehensive originality thread. There are others...