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Thanks for the posts and encouragement, being that this is our first time with a lot of this stuff it's been slow at times.
The next thing I wanted to do was get some color on my FJ. As the first picture indicated Captain Kirks shirt looks rathe close to the color I wanted, original land cruiser mustard yellow (532 paint code).
I talked to a friend that has done some restores himself and he mentioned that i could get rid of a glossy finish if I had the paint company add in some flattener (Because this isn't a restore, and I expect the cruiser to get some love on the trail I don't want a gloss finish, shows up all imperfections, so I wanted a nice flat finish).
So what the color you see here is the right color with half flattener. Now because I've never painted anything like this I had a buddy who has done that come over and lay it down.
We had to take the hood off and strip it down, however the tub was already hit with Por15 so I wanted to get the hood as well. This is part of the first coat.
As you can see below thought, we had some contamination issues, some really bad fisheyes. We talked some some people about it, I haven't found other people to have this issue with por, although my experience is that it is really tempermental.
I also used marine clean and also metal ready before painting, we tried a few different variations and it was coming out of the paint with this fisheye, even when I tried to roll some on the replacement panel we had to hit.
I didn't want to strip this thing all the way down and then hit again though, so I had my same buddy come back and hit it with another coat (again after we marine cleaned and metal readies the surface again), as you can see the fisheyes are there, but at least covered up.
I made the decision to see how the tie coat primer concealed the fisheyes, so I hit it with a few coats and then wetsanded them very gently. You can't see the fisheyes at all, if you get really close you can make them out slightly though.
For what I'm going for, it worked for me.
As you can see this is the color, it took a few coats (because the flattener goes on thinner), but after all was said and done it was the look I was going for.
The hood worked, so I also had him do the tub as well, here is a picture of it after we hit the new paint on. You can also see the panel blends in really well after por, primer and paint.
Another picture of the tub.
Here is a close up of the color and also the
So before we tossed the new tub on we put the hood on and took it on a trial run, the rig held up well, with a couple minor trail fixes, but the hood I thought looked awesome, can't wait for the full tub. (we also hit some nice mud, more pics of that if I can get them later). One is with the mud, another is without.
The next thing I wanted to do was get some color on my FJ. As the first picture indicated Captain Kirks shirt looks rathe close to the color I wanted, original land cruiser mustard yellow (532 paint code).
I talked to a friend that has done some restores himself and he mentioned that i could get rid of a glossy finish if I had the paint company add in some flattener (Because this isn't a restore, and I expect the cruiser to get some love on the trail I don't want a gloss finish, shows up all imperfections, so I wanted a nice flat finish).
So what the color you see here is the right color with half flattener. Now because I've never painted anything like this I had a buddy who has done that come over and lay it down.
We had to take the hood off and strip it down, however the tub was already hit with Por15 so I wanted to get the hood as well. This is part of the first coat.
As you can see below thought, we had some contamination issues, some really bad fisheyes. We talked some some people about it, I haven't found other people to have this issue with por, although my experience is that it is really tempermental.
I also used marine clean and also metal ready before painting, we tried a few different variations and it was coming out of the paint with this fisheye, even when I tried to roll some on the replacement panel we had to hit.
I didn't want to strip this thing all the way down and then hit again though, so I had my same buddy come back and hit it with another coat (again after we marine cleaned and metal readies the surface again), as you can see the fisheyes are there, but at least covered up.
I made the decision to see how the tie coat primer concealed the fisheyes, so I hit it with a few coats and then wetsanded them very gently. You can't see the fisheyes at all, if you get really close you can make them out slightly though.
For what I'm going for, it worked for me.
As you can see this is the color, it took a few coats (because the flattener goes on thinner), but after all was said and done it was the look I was going for.
The hood worked, so I also had him do the tub as well, here is a picture of it after we hit the new paint on. You can also see the panel blends in really well after por, primer and paint.
Another picture of the tub.
Here is a close up of the color and also the
So before we tossed the new tub on we put the hood on and took it on a trial run, the rig held up well, with a couple minor trail fixes, but the hood I thought looked awesome, can't wait for the full tub. (we also hit some nice mud, more pics of that if I can get them later). One is with the mud, another is without.
