Not sure if you guys remember my Multicolored car, But now its is all one color.
I painted it yesterday, in my backyard.
New Paint Job
danny325is
#4
Thanks.
The paint is automotive single stage ACRYLIC ENAMEL. I sprayed it using my HF compressor and HVLP gun. The color is called cool gray metallic.
I am not sure when you will see me on track racing. I might do the Grand Slam (3 tracks at pocono) HPDE event. but that is the limit unless things get a lot better real fast.
mxstyles
#5
looks great dan! when are you going to stop by the house with it? Pete and I live on quakerbridge road
danny325is
#6
Quakerbridge You say!!
That is about 10mins from here. Ill stop by anytime. I have lots of free time, don’t encourage me or you might end up trying to figure out how to get rid of me.
I now have a matching truck.
Ranger
#7
Looks great, wtg. What did you to do prevent the wind from blowing stuff on to the wet paint as it was drying?
danny325is
#8
Ranger wrote:
Thanks Scott.
I used Luck, paint on a hot windless day, but the bugs are the ones that still got in there.
It is a 10 foot paint job. The truck is 15 years old with 300,000 miles(diesel) there are lots of imperfections in the paint, but anything was better than what it was.
I didn’t really want this color on the truck. I started painting it with Duplicolor Paint Shop Silver, But that came out like brushed metal and the paint sprayed horrible. It also takes a ton of paint to get decent coverage. It took half a Quart just to do one coat on the roof of the truck. It looked like I have just chromed my roof, not the look I was going for, so I sanded that off. I will not use Duplicolor Paint Shop again.
The Acrylic enamel Grey/Blue covers very well and after painting the Car, the truck and a bunch of random things to practice on (I also have a matching wheelbarrow, lol) I still have half a gallon of the stuff left.
If anyone wants more photos http://picasaweb.google.com/dpereda/Truck?feat=directlink
Looks good!
I used a similiar acrylic enamel I got from CarQuest. Single stage paint plus reducer plus hardener. Got 1 gallon of paint, gallon of reducer, and a pint of hardener for less than $200. Sanding and a little body filler where needed then painted in the driveway. Piece of cake for a paint newb.
