What color would you choose?

ckruzer

ckruzer

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Just curious what color you would choose and why?

After an awesome weekend in Harlan, i have nixed the idea to bedline the exterior. a 300 bone cost, needlessly that will evidently get crumpled anyways.

jody dropped a color idea which got the wheels turning. right now the prevailing idea is aircraft grey with warthog nose art (used to work on them in USAF)

Really open to any neat ideas really. My outlook has quite flipflopped after this weekend lmao. So the goal is to find a rattle can color that has a gallon sized option. This way i can use my equipment to spray and keep a rattle can around for future touch ups.

Figured it wouldnt hurt to ping the NC4x4 soundboard.

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If you worked on the, I say hell yeah do it. Im not typically a big fan of military knock off paint jobs but if you served this country working on them then by all means rock it proudly!!!
 
I feel ya on the cost of paint.Nellie Belle was originally issued to the Marines so she was painted a Marine forest green that was done over the factory semi gloss olive drab she would have sported if issued to the army. After figuring the cost for paint in a gallon can plus a few spray cans plus haz-mat... man that got expensive quick. I do spray bomb rustoleum olive drab from wally world for less than 5 dollars a can and keep it on hand for touch ups.

getting time to do a camo theme for a change up.
 
^ This lot of the plain grey looks terrible when sprayed, is definitely try to find a grey with some silver in it
 
That's a good point. Any recommendations on a silver grey or metallic gray? Would gun metal grey be too far off the grey path
 
If you're trying to stay with cheaper paint and not try to spend house of colors money on paint, duplicolor makes a brilliant silver metallic that can be had about anywhere.
 
Either metal flake or gun metal.
 
I'm a big fan of the RustOleum Hammered paints. Can get it in a rattle can or big can for a sprayer or even brush or roller on.
The great things about it is that it has just enough visual texture that it hides imperfections super well, and can easily be sprayed over to touch up.
I once painted a 4Runner fiberglass top w/ it using a roller and it worked out really well, just takes some practice learned how thick to do it and how it works when you re-pass over it.
It's most common in a black but they have a grey very similar to the first post, and a lighter greyish silver.
 
Get tungsten metallic base clear and go from there. It's an awesome color used on dodge and ford. Just dust the base, lay incremental clear to build it up and a wet final coat. Then do your graphics or details on top of that.
 
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