Spent a week turning my old 1992 Isuzu 4 banger into a decent hunting truck that also doubles as a paintball tank.
Paint used:
1 large can rust colored primer
5 cans krylon camo green
5 cans krylon camo tan
3 cans krylon camo dark brown
6 cans krylon gloss protective enamel
Pattern & color codes used:
(pink rear differential was the wife's input, didn't make it to the truck for some reason.....)
After sanding the entire truck leaving the most of the old paint on, but sanded down pretty low, I put primer on the spots that were bare metal. Then freehand drew in the lines & color code #'s following the pattern printout with a permanent marker. It didn't write very well & in the future i'll be using a dry erase board marker, crayon or chalk instead.
The first coat that went on was the tan. Free hand, barely overlapping the marked lines. then another coat after letting it dry about 15mins. Next was the green, free hand barely overlapping the lines as well. 2nd coat on after 15mins. The dark brown had the smallest footprint & seemed to be "on top" on the pattern, it made the whole truck paint job seem kind of seemless & looked great. 2nd coat of that as well. Didnt tape off the sections like I've seen some shops do, just free handed the whole thing.
After 48hrs of setting I gave the truck a good wash to get all the paint mist dust & dirt off before putting on the protective coating. I noticed that the camo paint would chip off a little easier than I would prefer since I'm driving it through thick brush, hence the gloss enamel. There were several different kinds of enamel (all paint purchased @ wallmart) but only one actually had the words "protective gloss" on it so I went with that. Worked FANTASTIC. It's very hard to scratch the paint with 3 coats of this stuff on the truck. Drove it through trees & brush for a good 6 hours this past saturday & no scratches.
Whole process took about 6 evenings of work, and paint cost was a mere $78 bucks including the protective enamel.
I figured ya'll would get a kick out of the pictures & process & it might help anyone who's been thinking of doing something similar to their old beater. The finished product was WAAY better than I thought it would be from a free hand wallmart job.
Note the bullhorn on the roof of the finished product. 50watt from radio shack connected to the CD player. Excellent predator call horn!
Anyway, on to the pictures~!
Origional full size pictures at http://quartz.morpheus.net/lk/war_wagon/process/ (biiig)
Paint used:
1 large can rust colored primer
5 cans krylon camo green
5 cans krylon camo tan
3 cans krylon camo dark brown
6 cans krylon gloss protective enamel
Pattern & color codes used:
(pink rear differential was the wife's input, didn't make it to the truck for some reason.....)
After sanding the entire truck leaving the most of the old paint on, but sanded down pretty low, I put primer on the spots that were bare metal. Then freehand drew in the lines & color code #'s following the pattern printout with a permanent marker. It didn't write very well & in the future i'll be using a dry erase board marker, crayon or chalk instead.
The first coat that went on was the tan. Free hand, barely overlapping the marked lines. then another coat after letting it dry about 15mins. Next was the green, free hand barely overlapping the lines as well. 2nd coat on after 15mins. The dark brown had the smallest footprint & seemed to be "on top" on the pattern, it made the whole truck paint job seem kind of seemless & looked great. 2nd coat of that as well. Didnt tape off the sections like I've seen some shops do, just free handed the whole thing.
After 48hrs of setting I gave the truck a good wash to get all the paint mist dust & dirt off before putting on the protective coating. I noticed that the camo paint would chip off a little easier than I would prefer since I'm driving it through thick brush, hence the gloss enamel. There were several different kinds of enamel (all paint purchased @ wallmart) but only one actually had the words "protective gloss" on it so I went with that. Worked FANTASTIC. It's very hard to scratch the paint with 3 coats of this stuff on the truck. Drove it through trees & brush for a good 6 hours this past saturday & no scratches.
Whole process took about 6 evenings of work, and paint cost was a mere $78 bucks including the protective enamel.
I figured ya'll would get a kick out of the pictures & process & it might help anyone who's been thinking of doing something similar to their old beater. The finished product was WAAY better than I thought it would be from a free hand wallmart job.
Note the bullhorn on the roof of the finished product. 50watt from radio shack connected to the CD player. Excellent predator call horn!
Anyway, on to the pictures~!
Origional full size pictures at http://quartz.morpheus.net/lk/war_wagon/process/ (biiig)
