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adams77 Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:44 am

Another one of these things followed me home..... This one will be a 50/50 on road / off road build on a budget.

Notice the nice paint job


And the deep dish chrome wheels!


Decent interior, at least to start with. I threw in a set of old jeep seats just to see.


jeffsbugs Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:18 am

Nice. I like the paint job.

What are your plans for it?

Jeff

adams77 Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:58 am

jeffsbugs wrote: Nice. I like the paint job.

What are your plans for it?

Jeff

Patch holes
cut-n-turn
squirt tractor enamel over the camo
thrash the guts out of it


in that order

adams77 Sun Apr 29, 2012 4:10 pm

Beginning of the new look


Not bad for $35 worth of tractor paint and about 2 hours start to finish. I will have to sand out the bugs that got stuck in the paint though :twisted:


larryvance66 Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:32 pm

Nice! :) You make it look so easy. Will you paint mine? :wink:

adams77 Tue May 01, 2012 11:08 am

larryvance66 wrote: Nice! :) You make it look so easy. Will you paint mine? :wink:

It is easy, I am no painter by far. But in this case anything would have been better.

Tractor paint wont win any shows but it is easy to use. Here is another one that I painted with tractor paint.


pafree Tue May 01, 2012 11:56 am

adams77 wrote:

Tractor paint wont win any shows but it is easy to use.

great job. i like the ease of the tractor paint. i bet if you (if you wanted) sanded it smooth and then put on a clear coat then you would have a show contender. i rattle can (Krylon) camo'd over the tractor paint on my truggy and the camo is wearing off and the tractor paint is holding strong.

what did you use to thin it to spray it? i know it asked for naptha but i had better luck with auto enamel paint reducer.

adams77 Tue May 01, 2012 12:59 pm

I used Valspar, no thinner and 8 oz hardner per the gallon.

pafree Tue May 01, 2012 1:47 pm

adams77 wrote: I used Valspar, no thinner and 8 oz hardner per the gallon.

which tip were you using on your spray gun? the 2.0?

adams77 Tue May 01, 2012 3:46 pm

My gun had a 1.4, like I said....I am far from a painter but it worked!

pafree Tue May 01, 2012 4:18 pm

adams77 wrote: like I said....I am far from a painter but it worked!

you did a great job in my book. just looking for new or better ideals for using the valspar paint.

larryvance66 Tue May 01, 2012 6:34 pm

:oops: :oops: What's hardner?? :oops: :oops:

adams77 Sun May 06, 2012 11:50 am

larryvance66 wrote: :oops: :oops: What's hardner?? :oops: :oops:

It is a chemical that makes the paint hard, but only in the south. LOL at my spellin.



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