Sweet...looking forward to pics

 

Started the final coat of paint. Pics to follow. I'm having some orange peel issues.

 

Well here it is. Limestone green. I love the color.

I've got some orange peel issues that some may notice. It's a metallic urethane single stage paint. I wish I had gone with 2 stage, then I could wet sand the orange peel out.

Can I put a clear coat over the single stage paint?

 

Wet sand the paint after it's cured. Then use a slower reducer with a little thinner mix. It should flow out better. You have your mix too thick for the weather and it set up too fast before it had a chance to flatten out.

While I've shot clear over single stage, it was for an effect I was going for on a show car. (mixed stuff into the clear over graphics on the base color) I don't recommend clearing single stage on something that will be used out in the weather. The adhesion won't be great and will eventually separate.

 

Color looks great...nice job.

At a point in my project I had to remember that I'm am not a bodyman and this was my first try. So if someone can spot the places where it "aint so good" well good for you. 99% of folks won't see any of the things that you know are there anyway.

Keep up the good work.

 

Thanks for the feedback Grinner & Earthquake. I love the color. It's very lime.

I think I set the paint volume too high on my hvlp and that may have been a part of the problem with the orange(lime) peel problem.

I had an accident at the end of the paint job. One of my front quarters got bumped off a saw horse and fell onto the ground. Gonna fix it tomorrow.

 

Thank you for your help earthquake. What grit would you start out with to wet sand? I have 800 or 1000. I have 2000 grit to finish with. Is that adequate?

The product information does not recommend color sanding metallics. I presume this is because it messes up the alignment of the little metal flakes in the paint.

I also noticed that the mist coat that was recommended in the product description seemed to add lumps and humps to the finish. I may have messed up the mist coat.

 

Looking good

 

I finished the hood and fixed the bunged up quarter panel. While fixing the quarter panel I tested out a part of it by color sanding it and using an abrasive polishing compound. I rather liked the finished product. Sooo I'm planning on color sanding the truck even though I painted a single stage metallic on it.

I adjusted the mix on my paint today -thanks earthquake- and fine tuned the volume on my gun. I also did not have the heat on in my shop. The paint laid out more flat today than yesterday.

I did manage to get three small fisheyes on the hood. I used a toothpick to dab some paint in each fisheye, I hope to get those issues worked out when I color sand the hood. I'm going to wait a day or two for the paint to harden before I start to color sand the truck.

 

Here's a picture of the hood.

 

I've been working on the truck most nights. I ended up redoing the hood, and murphy's law took over again. I had a hatch of baby spiders explode in my shop right after I had finished repainting the hood!!! Oh well, on to the next thing. I'll deal with the spider tracks later.

I have turned my attention to the box. I would sure like to find an intact side cover for the spare tire on the passenger side. Mine is pretty skunky and will require some fab work. Does anyone have a source on where I might find one of these in the aftermarket world?

 

Someone just posted about 2 to 3 months ago about having access to a few of these spare tire doors but cant remember who. post a separate thread about and see who responds.

 

Post a pic of your skunky spare tire door. I'll let you know if I have access to a better one.

 

Thanks Grinner! It's put away and hard for me to get to right now. I'll put a picture up in a day or two.

Here's some pics of the cab/front clip assembly. So far so good. It looks a bit like a truck again!

 

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