Having used Tru Oil as a top coat on all of my builds I wanted to start another thread showing how it ages and can transform the look over time. On my 1st & 2nd builds I used Dingo Tone MkI for the base colour stain and intensifier but could not get the DT top coat to behave and switched to TO instead.

After many, many coats and wet sanding sessions both Explorers came up looking nice and shiny. What you are about see is basically before and after shots representing photos submitted in GOTM when build was completed plus photos taken today to try and highlight the differences over time.

EX-5: Completed 29 Feb 2016

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Photography skills were not so good back then as these were taken in bright sunlight.