Guys I have not done this before. I am currently welding up an OBS truck that I fixed up (replacing fucking everything but the engine and trans)This thing was terminal, it was not really supposed to be saved. But I did it anyway. The whole back of the cab was rotted at the bottom, from cab corner to cab corner. Most of the box exterior panels are bondo-rust aggregate, sprayed with the wrong shade of Dupli-Color.I cannot just use touch up spray with this thing, it needs a whole coat.How do I make it look like this again? Will NAPA be able to color match? What products do I buy and how to apply them? All these paint tutorials are either a guy doing a rattle can job, or a guy doing some crazy $8000 pro job.I cannot find a video of a guy just trying to redo a factory job in a cost effective way for less than $1000...
>>28946428Go to Marco and spend $3000 for a 2 stage paint job, it's affordable and will give the appearance of a factory style job because a single stage $800 job will look like it, but a $3000 job will look like a $3000 job
>>28946432>MarcoMaaco*
>>28946432NAPA sells everything for two stage. Im just not paying someone else to do it. Paint guys are dogfuckers that seem to get way more money than guys doing the welding and mechanical stuff and I can paint other things pretty well.Nope. Doing it myself.
hey i saw this truck on facebook obs group earlier this week.
I'd recommend getting some junkyard panels to practice on first if you've never painted anything before since it sounds like you want it to look good in the end. I need to repaint the already-repainted roof on my XJ, but since it's a heap anyway I'm just going to strip it, wire wheel it, spray on rust primer, and then top it with tractor paint. I'd do more if I cared how it looked.Also>OBSBe careful using that term unless you want to summon the truck generation autist that haunts /o/
>>28946712>Be careful using that term unless you want to summon the truck generation autist that haunts /o/Sorry.I saw the OP earlier but was busy and didnt have time to post.>>28946428>uses the term "OBS">doesnt have enough brain matter to google "automotibe paint brands" or "spray gun".Odd how those constantly coincide with eachother.....
>>28946428 Go to your local auto paint shop and get your paint mixed there. It'll be cheaper than Napa and the boomers that typically work at those places are usually very helpful for getting you the right stuff and materials. >I cannot find a video of a guy just trying to redo a factory job in a cost effective way for less than $1000...Probably because that's not super realistic if you want it to look nice and hold up. (Decent) paint is expensive right now. If you're hosing shitty single stage, you can probably get away with ~$400 in just paint plus another ~$200 for primer but I bet that stuff flakes off in a couple years. I spent about $2k for just color and clear last year when I did mine (iirc I used PPG). You could get an 80gal compressor off FB and a harbor freight desiccant water filter, but you're almost certainly better off just finding a local guy with a booth and renting it for the day like I did.Scuff the whole truck with 120g on a DA and strip flakey problem spots down to base metal. and do a finish sand with 320g before priming. Prep is everything, spend some extra time pulling trim and masking well, it'll save you lots of time down the road. Start with spraying the back of your cab/ the front of your bed to get your technique down so if you fuck it up, it isn't visible. Good luck.
>>2894642890% of it is prep. Watch some videos on low cost application.This boomer has a pretty good vid on budget paint work. https://youtu.be/MwvTekINF7k?si=AaAZr7iFUA7xRGZ7
