Getting ready for painting in the spring. Want to paint my 76 f-250 with stock colors, not necessarily the original stock color. Was originally "Hatteras Green Mettallic." Am thing about doing a two tone scheme. Question is what brands of paint do you fellas use to get the factory colors. Base/clear or single stage. Suggestions welcome.

 

I used single-stage Nason (by DuPont)... would rather have gone BC/CC for a more durable finish.

 

You can get stock colors with about any brand of paint. Base/clear is probably the best route and will last longer. Nothing wrong with a single stage paint, but single stage metallics can be a pain to spray. If you want a metallic paint, go with base/clear. Tcpglobal website is a good place to start. You can find your stock colors and decide what you want, single stage enamel, urethane or base/clear. You can even get old school laquer. They have PPG and their restoration shop brand. Dupont is good and the Napa paint brand which is what sherwin williams is/was isn't bad. I am going with just a single stage enamel on my 75 supercab, but I am not expecting anything spectacular, just something to look ok and cover my bodywork. If I was more experienced, I would have gone base/clear and a better paint, but an expensive paint is only as good as the sprayer too. Plus I don't have the best environment to spray.

 

I like Sikkens paint. High quality!

 

I chose House of Kolor for Pop's Truck.

 

Ive had a lot of luck with PPG Base Coat Clear Coat. Its not cheap but its durable... The thing you have to remember about Single Stage is its easy to burn through it when your color sanding and buffing... Base Coat Clear coat is much more forgiving as long as you put enough clear coat on, at least 3 good coats... As long as you have the year and the color code any Auto Paint Store should be able to match the original color for you... Good Luck with you project..

JRB65

 

Thanks for all the replies. Sounds like it will be BC/CC.

 

I painted my cab inside matalic Jade green base coat clear coat by Matrix system.

 

Maul, did you use BC/CC on your truck. If so, how many coats of each.

 

Yes, the painter did. I don't know how many coats of Orion Silver went on before the Apple red, but the truck was painted completely silver first and the red was added on top. It has a few layers of clear on top of those, but I couldn't tell you how many. Sorry I can't be of more help. That is the ONE thing that my buddy and I couldn't do ourselves.

 

Thanks for the info. Your paint looks great.

 

Thank you very much. I wish I could be of more help.

 

I've done both SS and BC\CC to my truck about 5 times over the last 30 years. I had bad luck with PPG products back in the day so I went with Dupont. I used Duponts "old" best (veriprime primer to Imron paint) Nasons (mid-lower level system) to their now best BC/CC (Chroma base\clear) system on my truck. I think I liked the Nason single stage with 3 coats of clear the best. I recommend using a high efficiency paint gun, not a high end HVLP gun. I'll get beat up for that comment I know. Most HVLP guns leave enough orange peel to match a factory paint job for the panel work most body shops perform. I like the SMOOTH flat shiney surface of a custom paint job that the old paint guns like the Binks model 7 and the new high efficiency guns give. Then again, one can add a couple of extra coats of clear to most paint, sand it down, rub it out and make it shiney.

Rustoleum aint gonna look as good or last as long as BC/CC Chromas Base, for example. But, for a tenth of the price, who cares.

Ps: Just for the uninformed greenies out there..I understand the inefficiencies of the older paint guns. The new HVLP guns give a paint job like the wifes new Murano, (orange peel). The "efficient" paint guns lay paint flat and smooth with about the same efficiency(less overspray) as hvlp, but with way less orange peel.