I painted my truck one piece at a time

[12pilgrim]

Hey guys, I painted my truck and wanted to post a thread here with a bunch of pics (since no one else in the world cares). It's saying I can only post 5 pics, is there a way to add more (like 30?)? Thanks

 

[Jesus Freak]

Maybe do 5 at a time.

 

[Clb]

If you attach a file
Maybe

 

[The_Josh_Bear]

I painted my truck one piece at a time​

Anybody else get that Johnny Cash song immediately going in their head?

 

[Jesus Freak]

Just give us the 5 best. I'm dying over here of suspense!!!

 

[Jesus Freak]

Hey guys, I painted my truck and wanted to post a thread here with a bunch of pics (since no one else in the world cares).

I CARE!!! I want to give paint a body a shot one day and I need inspiration.

 

[rreegg]

@12pilgrim one idea for many uploads is posting them to an image hosting service, I’ve used imgur but some people use Google drive or whatnot. Then you can share as many urls as you want instead of being limited by the forum.

 

[ROCK HARVEY]

I’ve thought of doing the same thing, so I’m excited to see how yours turned out. Also let us know what equipment you used and what brand of paint!

 

[ROCK HARVEY]

Hey guys, I painted my truck and wanted to post a thread here with a bunch of pics (since no one else in the world cares). It's saying I can only post 5 pics, is there a way to add more (like 30?)? Thanks

Can you just do 6 posts with 5 pictures each?

 

[12pilgrim]

OK guys! Here's the before.. paint was flat. Down to primer and beyond on the hood.. not too bad really for an old farm truck with 77k miles

 

[12pilgrim]

Sanded rust out as well as possible, then: Transtar self etch primer 6193 over bare metal, Transtar epoxy primer 7341, Omni basecoat, Transtar 8041 clearcoat with 6894 activator

(I used to be a sales rep for Transtar, excellent stuff)

 

[12pilgrim]

Ideally, you'd spray a vehicle all at once and in a booth. I did mine over a year and outside.. just waited for calm evenings without many bugs and kept tweezers on hand when they decided to land in it.. lots of wet sanding and buffing (we'll get to that). Here's the door, skim coated a couple low spots/dents with bondo (Evercoat Everglass). Same Transtar primer 7341

 

[12pilgrim]

Massive amount of work masking the door jam area.. Keeping everything original added to the work, having to spray 2 different basecoat colors beneath the clearcoat. Spray the first color, let it dry enough to not rip it with masking tape (30min?) Then flip the masking to spray the other color.

 

[12pilgrim]

Doors were sagging a bit so I painted new hinges (replacing pins didnt solve it). Don't be an idiot like me and take off both hinges at the same time! Had to remove the fender in order to align them again I have some extra hinges if anybody wants them! Just pay for shipping from Nashville...

 

[12pilgrim]

Door jam on the passenger's side.. quicker, easier after having done the drivers already.

Spray guns: Iwata LPH80 is great for these smaller areas. It's a smaller detail type gun, less overspray.. for the big areas like Hood/Bedside I used LS400 for basecoat and WS400 for Clearcoat. Primer sprayed with Air Gunsa (1.6 nozzle I think) you definitely don't have to use crazy expensive guns like these.. I used to work for them also and had the hookup back in the day..