Driveway paintjob progress
 

Got the Jeep painted today. Finished the wheels last night, did the
outside today and will Herculine the bed tomorrow. Here's a before
and after picture of what I've got so far:

Before:
http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/dayone/02.jpg

After:
http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/paint/10.jpg

I think it'll look much better with the bedliner in it. I still need
to touch up a couple of spots, but I love how it's coming along so
far. :-D



--
Travis
http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep.html
The meek shall inherit the earth. After I'm finished with it.
:wq!

Re: Driveway paintjob progress
 

travis wrote:
> Got the Jeep painted today. Finished the wheels last night, did the
> outside today and will Herculine the bed tomorrow. Here's a before
> and after picture of what I've got so far:
>
> Before:
> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/dayone/02.jpg
>
> After:
> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/paint/10.jpg


Damn man it took me weeks to get my YJ painted! I spent the better part
of two weekends just preping, and most of a sunday masking. Probably
spend 5 hours putting three coats on with a HV spray gun and 5hp
compressor setup.

You did sand right? I'm probably not telling you anything you didn't
already know, but if you didn't strip the wax off that shiny blue, and
didn't scuff it pretty thuroughly you'll be seeing that flat paint come
right back off like peels off an onion :( I've got some pics of 2 and 3
foot long strips of gloss blue paint coming off my hood as I stripped
just such a paint job off.

It looks nice though for a rattle can job, there's something about flat
green paint on a Jeep :)

I just finished starch blasting my stainless hardware, I'll probably
throw some pics up myself soon.

Re: Driveway paintjob progress
 

travis wrote:
> Got the Jeep painted today. Finished the wheels last night, did the
> outside today and will Herculine the bed tomorrow. Here's a before
> and after picture of what I've got so far:
>
> Before:
> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/dayone/02.jpg
>
> After:
> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/paint/10.jpg


Damn man it took me weeks to get my YJ painted! I spent the better part
of two weekends just preping, and most of a sunday masking. Probably
spend 5 hours putting three coats on with a HV spray gun and 5hp
compressor setup.

You did sand right? I'm probably not telling you anything you didn't
already know, but if you didn't strip the wax off that shiny blue, and
didn't scuff it pretty thuroughly you'll be seeing that flat paint come
right back off like peels off an onion :( I've got some pics of 2 and 3
foot long strips of gloss blue paint coming off my hood as I stripped
just such a paint job off.

It looks nice though for a rattle can job, there's something about flat
green paint on a Jeep :)

I just finished starch blasting my stainless hardware, I'll probably
throw some pics up myself soon.

Re: Driveway paintjob progress
 

travis wrote:
> Got the Jeep painted today. Finished the wheels last night, did the
> outside today and will Herculine the bed tomorrow. Here's a before
> and after picture of what I've got so far:
>
> Before:
> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/dayone/02.jpg
>
> After:
> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/paint/10.jpg


Damn man it took me weeks to get my YJ painted! I spent the better part
of two weekends just preping, and most of a sunday masking. Probably
spend 5 hours putting three coats on with a HV spray gun and 5hp
compressor setup.

You did sand right? I'm probably not telling you anything you didn't
already know, but if you didn't strip the wax off that shiny blue, and
didn't scuff it pretty thuroughly you'll be seeing that flat paint come
right back off like peels off an onion :( I've got some pics of 2 and 3
foot long strips of gloss blue paint coming off my hood as I stripped
just such a paint job off.

It looks nice though for a rattle can job, there's something about flat
green paint on a Jeep :)

I just finished starch blasting my stainless hardware, I'll probably
throw some pics up myself soon.

Re: Driveway paintjob progress
 

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:36:51 -0400, Simon Juncal <sjuncal@erols.com>
shared the following:

>
>
>travis wrote:
>> Got the Jeep painted today. Finished the wheels last night, did the
>> outside today and will Herculine the bed tomorrow. Here's a before
>> and after picture of what I've got so far:
>>
>> Before:
>> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/dayone/02.jpg
>>
>> After:
>> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/paint/10.jpg
>
>
>Damn man it took me weeks to get my YJ painted! I spent the better part
>of two weekends just preping, and most of a sunday masking. Probably
>spend 5 hours putting three coats on with a HV spray gun and 5hp
>compressor setup.
>
>You did sand right? I'm probably not telling you anything you didn't
>already know, but if you didn't strip the wax off that shiny blue, and
>didn't scuff it pretty thuroughly you'll be seeing that flat paint come
>right back off like peels off an onion :( I've got some pics of 2 and 3
>foot long strips of gloss blue paint coming off my hood as I stripped
>just such a paint job off.

Yeah, yesterday afternoon I stripped all of the stuff off I needed to,
then first thing this morning my wife and I started sanding. After we
sanded it down about 2/3 of the way, we started taping off stuff. We
taped most of it off, then I started painting while my wife finished
the sanding and taping. It's not a perfect job by far. But we did
scuff the blue paint pretty good all over before spraying over it.
This Jeep is going to see a lot of trail time including some decently
thick woods. I expect the paint job to get abused pretty badly so I
didn't even try to make it perfect. It's a "10 footer" paint job.

>
>It looks nice though for a rattle can job, there's something about flat
>green paint on a Jeep :)

I agree. I had several people tell me they liked the blue color, but
it just wasn't for me.

>
>I just finished starch blasting my stainless hardware, I'll probably
>throw some pics up myself soon.

Cool. I'm gonna put some more pics up soon after I do the Herculiner
coating and finish the little touch-ups that need to be done tomorrow.
The headers I ordered should be here Monday or Tuesday at the latest.
Next weekend I'll put those on and post pictures of that. It's coming
together fast. :-)



--
Travis
http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep.html
The meek shall inherit the earth. After I'm finished with it.
:wq!

Re: Driveway paintjob progress
 

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:36:51 -0400, Simon Juncal <sjuncal@erols.com>
shared the following:

>
>
>travis wrote:
>> Got the Jeep painted today. Finished the wheels last night, did the
>> outside today and will Herculine the bed tomorrow. Here's a before
>> and after picture of what I've got so far:
>>
>> Before:
>> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/dayone/02.jpg
>>
>> After:
>> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/paint/10.jpg
>
>
>Damn man it took me weeks to get my YJ painted! I spent the better part
>of two weekends just preping, and most of a sunday masking. Probably
>spend 5 hours putting three coats on with a HV spray gun and 5hp
>compressor setup.
>
>You did sand right? I'm probably not telling you anything you didn't
>already know, but if you didn't strip the wax off that shiny blue, and
>didn't scuff it pretty thuroughly you'll be seeing that flat paint come
>right back off like peels off an onion :( I've got some pics of 2 and 3
>foot long strips of gloss blue paint coming off my hood as I stripped
>just such a paint job off.

Yeah, yesterday afternoon I stripped all of the stuff off I needed to,
then first thing this morning my wife and I started sanding. After we
sanded it down about 2/3 of the way, we started taping off stuff. We
taped most of it off, then I started painting while my wife finished
the sanding and taping. It's not a perfect job by far. But we did
scuff the blue paint pretty good all over before spraying over it.
This Jeep is going to see a lot of trail time including some decently
thick woods. I expect the paint job to get abused pretty badly so I
didn't even try to make it perfect. It's a "10 footer" paint job.

>
>It looks nice though for a rattle can job, there's something about flat
>green paint on a Jeep :)

I agree. I had several people tell me they liked the blue color, but
it just wasn't for me.

>
>I just finished starch blasting my stainless hardware, I'll probably
>throw some pics up myself soon.

Cool. I'm gonna put some more pics up soon after I do the Herculiner
coating and finish the little touch-ups that need to be done tomorrow.
The headers I ordered should be here Monday or Tuesday at the latest.
Next weekend I'll put those on and post pictures of that. It's coming
together fast. :-)



--
Travis
http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep.html
The meek shall inherit the earth. After I'm finished with it.
:wq!

Re: Driveway paintjob progress
 

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:36:51 -0400, Simon Juncal <sjuncal@erols.com>
shared the following:

>
>
>travis wrote:
>> Got the Jeep painted today. Finished the wheels last night, did the
>> outside today and will Herculine the bed tomorrow. Here's a before
>> and after picture of what I've got so far:
>>
>> Before:
>> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/dayone/02.jpg
>>
>> After:
>> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/paint/10.jpg
>
>
>Damn man it took me weeks to get my YJ painted! I spent the better part
>of two weekends just preping, and most of a sunday masking. Probably
>spend 5 hours putting three coats on with a HV spray gun and 5hp
>compressor setup.
>
>You did sand right? I'm probably not telling you anything you didn't
>already know, but if you didn't strip the wax off that shiny blue, and
>didn't scuff it pretty thuroughly you'll be seeing that flat paint come
>right back off like peels off an onion :( I've got some pics of 2 and 3
>foot long strips of gloss blue paint coming off my hood as I stripped
>just such a paint job off.

Yeah, yesterday afternoon I stripped all of the stuff off I needed to,
then first thing this morning my wife and I started sanding. After we
sanded it down about 2/3 of the way, we started taping off stuff. We
taped most of it off, then I started painting while my wife finished
the sanding and taping. It's not a perfect job by far. But we did
scuff the blue paint pretty good all over before spraying over it.
This Jeep is going to see a lot of trail time including some decently
thick woods. I expect the paint job to get abused pretty badly so I
didn't even try to make it perfect. It's a "10 footer" paint job.

>
>It looks nice though for a rattle can job, there's something about flat
>green paint on a Jeep :)

I agree. I had several people tell me they liked the blue color, but
it just wasn't for me.

>
>I just finished starch blasting my stainless hardware, I'll probably
>throw some pics up myself soon.

Cool. I'm gonna put some more pics up soon after I do the Herculiner
coating and finish the little touch-ups that need to be done tomorrow.
The headers I ordered should be here Monday or Tuesday at the latest.
Next weekend I'll put those on and post pictures of that. It's coming
together fast. :-)



--
Travis
http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep.html
The meek shall inherit the earth. After I'm finished with it.
:wq!

Re: Driveway paintjob progress
 

Wow! Looks good! Can you come over to my house and work on my TJ? ;-)

--
Jim

"travis" <travist34removethis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:b3clpvge58st6euce3tvqm7o8b4unf8ns4@4ax.com...
> Got the Jeep painted today. Finished the wheels last night, did the
> outside today and will Herculine the bed tomorrow. Here's a before
> and after picture of what I've got so far:
>
> Before:
> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/dayone/02.jpg
>
> After:
> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/paint/10.jpg
>
> I think it'll look much better with the bedliner in it. I still need
> to touch up a couple of spots, but I love how it's coming along so
> far. :-D
>
>
>
> --
> Travis
> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep.html
> The meek shall inherit the earth. After I'm finished with it.
> :wq!

Re: Driveway paintjob progress
 

Wow! Looks good! Can you come over to my house and work on my TJ? ;-)

--
Jim

"travis" <travist34removethis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:b3clpvge58st6euce3tvqm7o8b4unf8ns4@4ax.com...
> Got the Jeep painted today. Finished the wheels last night, did the
> outside today and will Herculine the bed tomorrow. Here's a before
> and after picture of what I've got so far:
>
> Before:
> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/dayone/02.jpg
>
> After:
> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/paint/10.jpg
>
> I think it'll look much better with the bedliner in it. I still need
> to touch up a couple of spots, but I love how it's coming along so
> far. :-D
>
>
>
> --
> Travis
> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep.html
> The meek shall inherit the earth. After I'm finished with it.
> :wq!

Re: Driveway paintjob progress
 

Wow! Looks good! Can you come over to my house and work on my TJ? ;-)

--
Jim

"travis" <travist34removethis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:b3clpvge58st6euce3tvqm7o8b4unf8ns4@4ax.com...
> Got the Jeep painted today. Finished the wheels last night, did the
> outside today and will Herculine the bed tomorrow. Here's a before
> and after picture of what I've got so far:
>
> Before:
> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/dayone/02.jpg
>
> After:
> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep/paint/10.jpg
>
> I think it'll look much better with the bedliner in it. I still need
> to touch up a couple of spots, but I love how it's coming along so
> far. :-D
>
>
>
> --
> Travis
> http://jeepadventures.dyndns.org/jeep.html
> The meek shall inherit the earth. After I'm finished with it.
> :wq!