white90 Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 From Good Ole Ebay and it is in vgc one small mark but not really worth mentioning. need to paint it white though any tips for a painting novice? ps I'll be using a spray can from Halfords Camel trophy sticker 4 sale if you want to come nd collect/peel it off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honitonhobbit Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Rub it down with B&Q sanding blocks - course to fine Spray with aerosol of etch primer rub down with fine spray with etch primer wipe over with thinners wait for thinners to evaporate spray with aerosol of white allow to dry to slightly tacky repeat repeat fix to vehicle smile standback or small radiator roller and tin of white on two layers of etch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 or do it the Exmoor Beast way, - big tin of Dulux exterior gloss white & a big brush about 6 inches wide should do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripley Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Rub it down with B&Q sanding blocks - course to fineSpray with aerosol of etch primer rub down with fine spray with etch primer wipe over with thinners wait for thinners to evaporate Id use degreaser (spirit wipe) as thinners will soften etch up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon White Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Do it the Tonk/JW method. Dont bother painting new panel until after fitting it to vehicel. Find old paint brush that isnt too stiff. Beat with hammer until flexable if too stiff. Find tin of NATO green paint. Remove lid. Remove skin. Stir with expensive snap on screwdriver casue theres nothing else lying around that will do. Carefull clean snap-on screwdriver with thinners, dry and polish and put carefully back into snap-on toolbox. Dip stiff paint brush into paint and apply to wing. Dont worry too much about runs etc casue it'll get scratched soon anyway. If old colour shows through too much then make sure you apply a really good thick coat casue repainting it again is too much hassle - it runs a bit but who cares? Admire how much the rest of the truck has faded casue the new panel looks very green now! Make token effort at cleaing paint brush by putting it in jam jar full of thinners with other mankey paint brushes. Make promise that you will clean paint brushes properly one day. Put back on shelf. Get on with other jobs, swearing liberally every time for the next 4 hours you forget the paint is wet and touch it. And no i didnt forget the rubbing down or priming stages - I just never bother!!! OK so its of absolutely no use whatsoever by way of advice to Tony, but though you lot might like a laugh as to how the other half do it! Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missingsid Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Youve just described my Hybrid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honitonhobbit Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Youve just described my Hybrid! And mine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbarton Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Keep the skin off the paint, it will come in handy for patching the bulkhead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Henson Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 You don't rub down etch primer unless there's a run in it. On bare alloy you etch prime, then hi-build primer, then flat with 800 or 1000 wet/dry, then 5-coats of top coat - alowing each to dry before applying the next. 2nd hand panels should be washed first to remove any oil/dirt, then key the surface with 800 wet/dry. If no bare metal is evident, then a barrier paint to prevent a reaction between old paint and new. Top coat as already mentioned, and t-cut/polish. New panels come with an anti-oxidant coating on:- After de-greasing - etch prime:- Then 2-coats of hi-build primer:- After keying with wet/dry (used wet), 5-coats of the finish, allowed to dry for a couple of days, and then wing assembled. Then a slight polish Much better than boring ol' white Les. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill van snorkle Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 You could always do it the Bodge it and Scarpa, Bill Van Snorkle way. First prepare your panel by wiping the worst of the mud and dust off with a dirty petrol soaked rag. Then dig out your ten year old tin of olive drab enamel to find it has turned into a semi solid mudlike consistency. Discover you've left the lid loose on your can of thinners and it has all evaporated away. Decide to thin the glug out with petrol instead. Add too much petrol and stir thoroughly, now paint is too thin, need to thicken it up a bit. Go down to favorite mud hole and collect a bit of dried up clay silt from the side. Add that to paint mixture, stir thoroughly. Search high and low for electric spray gun before remembering that you lent it to your neighbor 6 months ago to spray his horse float. Look around for any suitable paint brushes, or even brooms, no cigar.You could leave it for another day, but you don't want all your panel preparation work to go to waste. Pull a lump of exposed foam rubber from torn passenger seat squab and proceed to paint car with the dip and dab method. Blow dry at 50mph on way to work. You can larf, but that is exactly what happened to me one sunny morning when I decided to paint my Landy before driving it to work. Bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honitonhobbit Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 You could always do it the Bodge it and Scarpa, Bill Van Snorkle way. First prepare your panel by wiping the worst of the mud and dust off with a dirty petrol soaked rag. Then dig out your ten year old tin of olive drab enamel to find it has turned into a semi solid mudlike consistency. Discover you've left the lid loose on your can of thinners and it has all evaporated away. Decide to thin the glug out with petrol instead. Add too much petrol and stir thoroughly, now paint is too thin, need to thicken it up a bit. Go down to favorite mud hole and collect a bit of dried up clay silt from the side. Add that to paint mixture, stir thoroughly. Search high and low for electric spray gun before remembering that you lent it to your neighbor 6 months ago to spray his horse float. Look around for any suitable paint brushes, or even brooms, no cigar.You could leave it for another day, but you don't want all your panel preparation work to go to waste. Pull a lump of exposed foam rubber from torn passenger seat squab and proceed to paint car with the dip and dab method. Blow dry at 50mph on way to work.You can larf, but that is exactly what happened to me one sunny morning when I decided to paint my Landy before driving it to work. Bill. Bill, this is the way that you. me and oh so many of us do it - I myself am about to move to 'Light Stone' rather than olive drab though. This allows us to touch up after the odd ding or in your own case after trying to fit a rather large peg into a nasty tight hole Tony, bless his cotton socks, is into a slightly better standard, hence the option of etch primer. Luckily he is awar that he will bend that wing again and most likely in style Les is a bit of a perfectionist and doesn't get out much, so he needs to get that 'just perfect' finish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon White Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Les is a bit of a perfectionist and doesn't get out much, so he needs to get that 'just perfect' finish Thats cause he needs it so nice and shiney he can see his face in it, so he can see what he's doing when he puts his lipstick on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happyoldgit Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 If the paint already on there is sound I'd just flat it down, then unless you are 100% of the paint that's you are painting over blow it over with isolator, prime, colour & clearcoat (depending on the system you are using). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill van snorkle Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 Bill, this is the way that you. me and oh so many of us do it - I myself am about to move to 'Light Stone' rather than olive drab though. This allows us to touch up after the odd ding or in your own case after trying to fit a rather large peg into a nasty tight hole You've just given me a lateral thought. Allbeit a couple of weeks late. Having successfully forced the rather large peg into and through the other side of nasty tight hole, I shouldn't have restored the then resized peg back to it's former size. Now it won't fit again. Doh ! Bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honitonhobbit Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 Ahh Bill the genius of foresight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daan Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 Or my way: get some panels on ebay cheap, use 2 layers of the halfords rattle can paint mixed in the right colour, Spend all saturday to make a nice , clean job of it and stand back and feel proud (nothing too different from the rest of us). Then on sunday: go to tixover and after an hour, barrel roll the vehicle 3 times from a hill, reducing the wings (and roof) in a very earodynamic shape. now a year later this was repeated with the wings lasting a week before we tackled argyll. Anyone out there got any sound s3 wings going spare? Moral: dont waste to much time on them. Daan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Brock Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 My way 1 x can of paint 1 x Gloss Roller 1 x 1 1/2" Brush 1 hour later whole truck done ! Don't matter if I scratch/bash or obilrerate anything........ That said the flammin' thing ain't bin on the road for a year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon White Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 1 hour later whole truck done ! 1 hour??? Yee gads - professional paint job! I can do my entire truck in 20 minutes!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbarton Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Amateurs the lot of you - I get them to put paint in my local carwash instead of water! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonk Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Do it the Tonk/JW method.Dont bother painting new panel until after fitting it to vehicel. Find old paint brush that isnt too stiff. Beat with hammer until flexable if too stiff. Find tin of NATO green paint. Remove lid. Remove skin. Stir with expensive snap on screwdriver casue theres nothing else lying around that will do. Carefull clean snap-on screwdriver with thinners, dry and polish and put carefully back into snap-on toolbox. Dip stiff paint brush into paint and apply to wing. Dont worry too much about runs etc casue it'll get scratched soon anyway. If old colour shows through too much then make sure you apply a really good thick coat casue repainting it again is too much hassle - it runs a bit but who cares? Admire how much the rest of the truck has faded casue the new panel looks very green now! Make token effort at cleaing paint brush by putting it in jam jar full of thinners with other mankey paint brushes. Make promise that you will clean paint brushes properly one day. Put back on shelf. Get on with other jobs, swearing liberally every time for the next 4 hours you forget the paint is wet and touch it. And no i didnt forget the rubbing down or priming stages - I just never bother!!! OK so its of absolutely no use whatsoever by way of advice to Tony, but though you lot might like a laugh as to how the other half do it! Jon last time i painted mine i didn't even wash the mud off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonk Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Amateurs the lot of you - I get them to put paint in my local carwash instead of water! wot the hell is a car wash? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Brock Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 1 hour??? Yee gads - professional paint job! I can do my entire truck in 20 minutes!!! That includes cleaning the brush out and cup of coffee per side Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JST Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Les, yoyr sticker are on back to front. Tony - why bother painting it onyl going to get bent with those carp codrivers you have and will need replacing again soon. Can i haev your old one then its in better nick than mine..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Henson Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Les, yoyr sticker are on back to front. Not in your rear view mirror though. Les Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exmoor Beast Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Just for the record half of my 110 is International Tractor red. The other half is Dulux. Tony give me a call if you want a hand painting .....err....I won't wait by the phone.... Will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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