Painted the work truck. 56k warning

[TazDevil07]

WOW! That does look great Tony!

 

[surewhynot]

Tony,

Did you use lacquer or enamel (I'am guessing enamel), and was it a single stage, 2-stage or tri-stage system?

Also do you have a booth or did you just use your garage?

Enamel, base/clear. It's actually a cheaper paint than I normally use. Dimension, from Sherwin Williams. I normally use their Ultra 7000 base/clear on my own stuff.

The white was leftover from a fleet job I did. (painted 4 trucks). The blue was actually touch up paint I had mixed up to match the storefront at the local water treatment plant. I had to repair one of their entrance doors and needed paint. It was a steel door, so auto paint came to mind.

When I decided to paint the truck, I figured instead of letting my leftovers go to waste, might as well use them up. I had a little over 3 quarts of white, which was plenty to do that part, but a little less than a quart of the blue. That would have been cutting it real close, so I mixed in some silver and lightened it up a bit.

I sprayed the blue on first, because it was a smaller area to tape off than it would be if I would have sprayed the white first.


I did that inside the garage. Had both of the overhead doors open though and a little dust got in it, but heck, it's a work truck.


Chris, I have a chrome grille for it. I'm just waiting to run across the chrome headlight bezels and I'll throw it in. I might even shim the bumper up and make it happy faced again.

 

[lil_dq]

Looks real good bud!

 

[KdPate]

Looks very good man.

 

[m78]

That blue turned out as a nice color.

If you would have taken the hub caps off, you wouldn't have had to collapse them in to get it through the garage door.

 

[lil_dq]

Oh and I love the watch pig! LOL

 

[surewhynot]

Hahaha. I was wondering if anybody was gonna notice her.

 

[5.0Flareside]

man. dude tony will you paint my truck too..... UGH I WANT A PAINT JOB!!!!

 

[Blade]

i remember the pic u sent me on the phone. but hot dayum Tony! my jaw hit the floor when i seen this pic! great job man!!!!

 

[countryboytn]

i remember the pic u sent me on the phone. but hot dayum Tony! my jaw hit the floor when i seen this pic! great job man!!!!

He sent it to me to

 

[Skandocious]

Man... All I got was a lousy naked picture of him. As usual.

 

[5.0Flareside]

Man... All I got was a lousy naked picture of him. As usual.

PUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Skandocious]

Don't be jealous

 

[Fordzilla80]

Man,I can't believe I missed the thread.

It looks great Tony.Blue and white is one of my favorite color combos on these trucks.Too bad you couldn't mix in a little metallic for the blue,cause then it would be perfect.lol.

 

[flareside_thunder]

Chris, I got the bubblegum shot ok...I don't wanna hear it. Shaun...the silver was mixed in with the blue and it is a little metallic.

 

[Fordzilla80]

the silver was mixed in with the blue and it is a little metallic.

That's the problem.I like more than a little metallic.lol.

 

[5.0Flareside]

Don't be jealous

trust me i wont be.

 

[fordman76367]

the aint looks great.....while your at it go ahead n paint my 84 and then put sum blue stripes on the 94 i bought

 

[O'Rattlecan]

One of these days I'm going to burn some serious vacation and limp my poor truck down to Florida with some paint.

Ryan

 

[LEB Ben]

One of these days I'm going to burn some serious vacation and limp my poor truck down to Florida with some paint.

Ryan

I'm with you there...he does good work doesn't he. I may have to arrange something when I head down to visit the grandparents. Tony isn't too far from them.


Tony you figure you can handle a tutone scheme like Ranger429 has on his Bronco...but in red and white?