I painted my truck one piece at a time

[12pilgrim]

Dayum that sux.
My old school shop was a high volume local distributor to the dozen body shops in town.
Love that ****.
B.S. it failed and of all places on a hood.

I'd use it again! Just got a bad or old batch. A friend of mine who is an actual body man only uses Feather Fill. Sure sands easier than Everglass..

 

[The_Josh_Bear]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiice work! That's a sweet looking bull nose now man!

 

[12pilgrim]

Resprayed the hood. When I painted this the first time, I'd left a little of the original finish that was no good.. big mistake, should have stripped it. Anyways hopefully this is the last time!

You must be registered for see images attach

You must be registered for see images attach

You must be registered for see images attach

 

[IDIBOBS]

Resprayed the hood. When I painted this the first time, I'd left a little of the original finish that was no good.. big mistake, should have stripped it. Anyways hopefully this is the last time!

You must be registered for see images attach

You must be registered for see images attach

You must be registered for see images attach

Oh nice. I’ve been thinking it’s about time I address the paint on mine. It’s just so rough and it’s gets beat up every day I’m thinking bed lining. It will only be the cab since the bed is coming off for a flat bed.

 

[Clb]

Nice work.

 

[Jesus Freak]

I've actually started painting my wife's firebird (KITT). I'm doing rattle cans. It's a slow process, but I'm pleased. Maybe in a few years (like 10-15) I'll do it again with serious paint products, but I'm really not interested in adding another skill set to my list right now.

Your truck looks awesome though!

 

[onetonjohn]

That looks NICE. Same paint scheme as my brown truck. Yours looks better.

 

[ROCK HARVEY]

Do you remember how much material you bought to do it this way? I’d like to do this too, but I imagine I need to plan for more waste doing it in lots of little sections.

Looks amazing BTW!

 

[Old Goat]

Beautiful, nice work. To do it right is a ton of work.
Incredable job doing the two tone back to factory.
You have an eye for detail.
Would be interesting to see how the factory panted these with two tone, pin Stripping etc... all coming down the assembly line.

I have a 87 with the same color combo. Bought it a year ago this month for $2k. Paint is really bad on Hood and roof...well more rust than paint.
If I were to paint it, would be one color, and all the trim would be gone. That wide trim piece is plastic and held on with some type of stick em. Was curling on the ends anyway so off it came.
Even painting one color is a lot of work to do it right.
The only paint I have used is PPG Deltron single stage, no clear
coat. That was back in 90. Paints have changed a lot since then.

Now you need a set of these LED Lights.

Amber Bumper Switchback LED DRL Signal Lamp For 80-86 Ford Bronco F150 F250 F350 | eBay

Amber Bumper Switchback LED DRL Signal Lamp For 80-86 Ford Bronco F150 F250 F350.

www.ebay.com

1980-86 Ford Bronco F150 F250 F350 Front Side Fender Amber LED Marker Lights | W5W (168) | Black | 12V | 4300K | Right Side Marker Light Assembly | Sealed Assembly | Smooth

Front Side Fender Amber LED Marker Lights For 1980-86 Ford BRONCO F150 F250 F350.

www.ebay.com

I have them on my 86, love them.


Goat

 

[12pilgrim]

Do you remember how much material you bought to do it this way? I’d like to do this too, but I imagine I need to plan for more waste doing it in lots of little sections.

Looks amazing BTW!

Maybe 1 qt of the tan and 1qt of the brown basecoat (Omni) with equal parts medium reducer (just buy a gallon)? 3 to 4 coats of clearcoat total (maybe 3 kits of gallon clear?) Then wet sanded with 1500, finished with 2000 grit, then buffed. I did this piece by piece as time allowed, about 1.5yr total (never sprayed below 60deg so only half the yr to work on it). Maybe $600 total in materials?