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[azrider]

what color is that paint!! It looks just like mine!!

Kelly Saad (www.landcruisergrilles.com) painted my LX450. Worth every penny!!

He did a complete repaint in Porsche Aventurine Green on my forest green LX450. Blacked out my chrome grille(which wasn't the easiest to do) and headlight trim. Every jamb, every crack, there's isn't a single place I see the original color. The price was upfront and definitely reasonable. He...

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[SFROMAN]

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[open country]

Looks great! Can I hire you to paint mine?

 

[jonahhady]

Looks great! Can I hire you to paint mine?

Seriously… wish I had the space and equipment for this.

 

[Perfected]

So after the first 3 coats of the Toyota sand color ( the Tacoma color on the newer ones) I had no choice but to sand down to 600 to get rid of a lot of imperfections that were caused by the base coat touching the Toyota primer.

That forces me to have to respray with etching primer and then build up primer. After this coat I painted the truck again to cover up the newly primered spots.

It was 2 in the morning when I got done with the final coat of the sand color.

I didn’t like it.

So I pivoted last second and went with plan B.

I had this paint sitting in my garage for another project so decided why not.

I sprayed the new color that same night.

Finally I sprayed 4 coats of clear.

I still have to color sand, cut and buff but that will be once I get all the stuff I need. View attachment 3266051View attachment 3266052

There is imperfections in the paint. I got a couple of sweat stains while clear coating and since I did the whole truck at once I had to sacrifice the wet finish on the roof so that the hood wouldn’t get overspray.
There are also some dust mites since I did paint it in my garage.

But the cool thing is that I should be able to sand most of that stuff when I color sand, cut and buff it.

This is EXACTLY what I want to do with mine. I just need to man up and finally do it. Ugh.