Well I said to heck with it, I like that blue and white combo... so I've begun painting. Now, I know it's not a Toyota but I thought I'd share my progress on here because Cruz's FJ was my inspiration. Perhaps if I add my experience someone else might get the courage to paint their truck with Tremclad/Rustoleum!
So the details are (thus far), I'm using the same tremclad dark blue and white for the roof. I'm using a 60 gal compressor, a no-name HVLP gun, and in-line water separator. I've made sure to keep the garage well ventilated by having all doors and windows open and added extra insurance by breathing through a cheap cartridge style paint respirator. The gun was set at 37psi. I've never painted anything before. So far I've started with the interior sheet metal and here is what I've done:
- sand factory paint by hand with 120 grit using those foam sponge sand paper doo-dads.
- tape what I don't want to paint. I used some kinda thin vapour barrier plastic that you buy by the roll at home-depot.
- then using the hvlp, I shot un-thinned tremclad oil-based grey primer
- the next day I shot the blue through the hvlp. I thinned it 30% with mineral spirits.
The goal was to get the paint onto the interior sheet metal with as least amount of work as I could. For the exterior I will do more/lighter coats and wet sand between (4 coats?), not sure yet. So far I'm very pleased with the way things are going. I was scared before starting this because I'd never painted anything before. Now, I'm starting to think "hey this is kinda fun"!
What I'm starting with:
Primer:
First coat of blue:
I'll post a follow up once I'm done. Thanks to We-Cruz for posting up and inspiring me to do this!
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I can shoot a few more pics and post up if you like. I spent a bit of time designing/building the console and am quite happy how it turned out.
