The weather is cooling off so I decided it's a good time to think about doing the paint on my truck. I have the window frames out of my top cover to clean them and to fix the rust and to replace the L-trim.

With the frames are out, I decided it was a good idea to paint the area around the frames. This would make painting the rest of the top easier later on. I bought a can of fire red Brightside (Interlux) and gave it a test drive using a 1-1/2" brush. Wow. That paint is nice to work with and it is really, really red.

I repainted the frames gloss black and set them back in place in the top. They look really sharp against the fire red paint.

If the weather holds, I'll be able to finish the body work on the left side and get it painted by this weekend. Pics are coming soon.

 

i recently rolled mine with the interlux black. the black looks good but only thing is i didnt do good rolling it on. its not terrible or anything, i was just to lazy and too short on time to really prep the truck well, and i only did two coats. im happy with it overall though. just thought i should share.

 

pics?

 

i have since painted the gas door as well, was just curious as to how it would look with the white steelies

 

That looks pretty good!

 

Yeah rolling paint donme right turns out damned well. I have been researching this for some time but since I am doing cammo rolling won't work for me. ;(

 

i have also been debating whether or not i should paint the wheels black, thoughts? i kind of like the white right now

 

i'm going black brightside with flat black wheels on my rig. i think it'll look sexy

 

Or a Dark Blue , Maybe Metallic

 

im still undecided if I want to do roll on paint, or DUPLICOLOR PAINTSHOP..spray on stuff comes allready mixed. :-) Maybe after the winter

 

Out of curiosity, has anyone tried to spray the Brightside paint with an HVLP paint gun? What size tip and how much thinner did you use?

 

wow, i'm really impressed. how much prep work was involved?

 

I was gonna give it a god sooner or later but havent found the right rig to give it a shot.

 

search: roll and tipping


Its a method we recommended(used to work in a boat yard) to people who were not able to afford to have a pro paint their boats.


basically roll on the paint, drag a brush over it lightly to knock down the "orange peel"


search it, there are videos on youtube

edit:

as for prep, If your rolling paint on, I wouldn't worry too much about fairing it(making it smooth) just knock down any obvious spots, fill in small dents.

as always, before you apply anything that relies on a adhesive bond(i.e. paint and bondo) clean it really well, I use Lacquer thinner

 

I actually know about rolling and tipping and I've used the method to paint around the door frame. I also have a gun and compressor. I just wanted to see how they worked simply because a gun offers a more consistent finish if setup properly.

The material data sheet for Brightside says to use a 1.5 to 1.8mm tip. My gun currently has a 1.4mm tip , so I expect it will just spit paint rather than spray unless I thin the crap out of it which is no good for coverage. They also recommend thinning, but they didn't say by how much. Their special thinner for spraying is essentially nothing more than just xylene.

I'm going to experiment with it today as soon as it warms up.

 

key.

godd luck, try to post up some close ups of it when your done(So we can see the finish)

let me know what worked and what didn't too.

good luck

 

Pics Pics Pics

 

The results so far...

I decided that using my gun which has a 1.4mm tip wasn't going to cut it. So I went to Northern Tools and bought one of their el-cheapo HLVP guns with a 1.8mm tip. This gun is intended for heavier body paints.

I tried spraying the Brightside undiluted to see what would happen. It's too thick to spray. It wouldn't even feed. So I thinned it with around 10% mineral spirits. Viola! We got spray! The coverage was pretty good, but it was clear that the gun was still not happy. The fan pattern was having some problems. The next batch will get thinned to 15% which I think will do the trick.

I went ahead and finished the quarter panel with the 10% mix. It came out pretty nice. I did get some fish eyes. The surface was thoroughly sanded and cleaned, so I'm not sure why that happened.

As soon as the paint flashes over (about an hour) I'll move the truck into some better light and get some pictures.

 

The 'Fire Red' Brightside paint is actually a reddish orange color. You can see the difference against the toyota red which is still on the tailgate. This paint is very bright in direct sunlight.

I took the door and front fender off to make it easier to paint the door pillars. You can see the black undercoating the wheel wells got.

 

here you go

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