mehret

Well, I'm currently home visiting my family for the week, and I got sick of looking at my half painted/half primered truck, so I decided to repaint my truck. After giving it some thought, I started.

My girlfriend and I spent a few hours on Monday night sanding the truck down.


Then, on Tuesday morning, I finished sanding and primered the truck.


Around 3:00, I had a friend come over, and the paint started flying.







This is where she stood at 1:00 this afternoon.


Tonight, we laid down some more black stripes on the back of the cab and touched up some paint. I'll get some more shots Friday, since tomorrow is Ozzfest.

Jay351

Looks great is it flat paint or gloss?

2K1SR54X4

Mehret,

That paint job rocks! great job!!

hmmwv15

Did you get the idea from me?


If you did, you totally made it better....I need to repaint my truck.

Henrythewound

I like it, all freehand? I didnt see any stencils

Slednutjetskier

Cool Girlfriend.

91muddog

i wish i had the patience to do that. haha i need to find an old yota to do that to.

rattle cans?

mehret

It's all flat rattle can paint. We actually got the idea from a picture of an old K5 Blazer that a friend showed me.

Also, the OD green and tan were done freehand. For the black, we took a couple empty beer boxes and ripped them. Then we selected random pieces and held them together.

And I agree about the girlfriend statement. I even showed her how to use the die grinder, and she took off all the factory decals that wouldn't come off with the heat gun.

hosh

sweet paintjob.

04 Rocko Taco

Looks great man!! I dont have the balls to do it to my 84 Runner (I dont technically even have it yet) but its inspiration, thats for sure. Thanks for sharing!!

mehret

Thanks. The only reason I did it was because, last year, I completely revamped the bed. I cut both bed sides out and shaped them with new pieces of sheet metal. Since then, I've been driving around with a truck that was half painted and half primered. Between being sick of looking at that and the fact that the primer was in need of being touched up, I decided, while I had some time off, to do something I won't mind looking at every morning.

Squiddy

Looks great - MUCH better than the average camo job.
Your girlfriend is a trooper, too.

jagger_snitt

Cool,The pattern makes it look more agressive than the typical woodland pattern.

ken.vs.ryu

the camo is so good i can't even see it.