spdwaver
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This is what mine is going to look like within this month (top pic taken today, bottom is what it will look like); spray paint on the sides, spray bed liner on the flares:
Painting Land Cruiser Rustoleum
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That's a fine looking rig either way....
spdwaver
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That's a fine looking rig either way....
It's the sticker; it really brings out the ~off-white paint.
Im half way through my "canned" paint job. I have gotten really good with a rattle can. Paint looks so nice I wish I had spent more time making the body work look good from the bob. Probably line-x'ing the back half anyway. If not I may go back, sand it back down, and clean it up a bit and re-spray the back end. For $10 a panel I can afford it.
Haha sorry. Here's another picture:
I like the tires, but can't really say that shows the paint any better than the avatar...
I like the tri-tone white/grey/black - very subtle.
spdwaver
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Just enough contrast to clean it up a bit.
holy crap. i think im gonna do this just for kicks before i hand the rig over to a body shop...
Doing it right would NOT be something I would do for fun. Unless you have a week to spend in your garage inhaling a LOT of paint fumes and sanding dust. I did one panel this way on my old truck, and it looked good after about 7 days of paint/dry/sand/paint/dry/sand... doing a whole truck would be brutal.
Can't find any other photos at the moment.
I totally agree with you there it was a lot of work but you forgot removing parts (fenders, hood, door handles, flares, mirrors, glass, etc.), masking, and priming then assembly.
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I know this is an old thread but I just wanted to show how I did my FZJ80
I did my first truck, a 1978 Chevy K10 in rustoleum maroon. I deleted all of the crappy Scottsdale trim and took my time on the body work. Then used a few cases of rustoleum maroon and satin gloss. Turned out great after color sanding. Then it got lifted and things went downhill lol. Had custom trail pinstriping within a week of lifting it. I have also done a 91 Nissan Pathfinder OD Green and black using rattle cans in an HVLP. I put the cans upside down in the box and placed a chunk of board and a weight on top to get all the gas out of the can. Then used a bottle opener to pop a hole in the bottom and pour it into the HVLP and spray it. You lose far less paint in the HVLP transfer process than you do using a rattle can. That and you don't have to worry about getting those glossy spots from uneven distribution.
I painted my 72 Blazer with Rustoleum about 20 years ago using an electric sprayer. Wet sanded it first and thinned the paint down quite a bit. Sprayed several coats allowing it to tack between. I was able to get a real nice gloss by rubbing it out and waxing it after a few months of cure time. The sun out here has faded it real bad but if they still made the color I used back then I'd re-do it. I painted it in a small garage with two windows open. I put fans in the windows used them to evac some fumes and overspray along with a paint respirator (changed filters a lot).
DirtScaresMe
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I found some tractor paint I want to rock.
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John Deere Green?
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DirtScaresMe
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This stuff: https://www.amazon.com/Valspar-4432...&qid=1508281002&sr=8-2&keywords=tractor+paint
Basically something that's designed for outdoor abuse, protecting metal, and touch-ups on the regular. For me there's not much difference between how I'd want a tractor finished and my 80. There are different colors, I think I'm leaning towards the low gloss black.
Or the kubota orange if I'm just going totally crazy.
I highly recommend XO Rust for tractor type rough treatment paint. I bout a completely surface rusted horse trailer 5 years ago and powerwashed it then just painted over the rust. The rust is showing through the paint now but people still tell me it looks nice. It didnt peel or flake and it rained three hours after I painted it. One coat. Oil based like in a serious way.
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That is the good stuff, cant have it in CA?
DirtScaresMe
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Nah we can get it, I'm just lazy.
