Planning the paint job

[Jeff Groves]

The Denali front GFX parts arrived today.
I don't want the Denali running board or the side door parts so what to do with the back edge of the part?
Since I plan a tahoe painted on the door I'm thinking a light placed just right in the GFX part to high light it at night.
May even use some Ghost Pearl on the tahoe lettering.

 

[mountie]

Uh, yea..... nice patina ( tail gate pic)

Doesn't look like the paint failed on it's own, but corrosion / salt damage.

But you know the whole truck, and what the rest of the lower body/ underside looks like.

 

[Jeff Groves]

Years ago I painted a '65 Triumph 650 to look like a rat bike!
Paint job looked like the paint was peeling and rusting.

I stopped painting when I went into the Army. Sort of. I took my gear with me and painted my room walls. When the Company Commander saw it? I spent several months doing murals in the Company halls. Then the Regiment Commander saw those and I spent months doing other buildings. LOL!

Everyone else was doing Guard duty or such but I was painting.

 

[mountie]

Murals are a different sort of technique.... Art on your living room wall is usually a "10 foot rule" to observe the work.

Some murals are a 100-300 foot rule. Too much detail & the detail looks like a blob from the distance.

I was Paint Coordinator / Background "ocean-water" airless painter, on this 7,500 gallons of paint, 145,000 squ. ft. piece.
( Wyland Whale Mural #33 Long Beach, Calif. 1992 )

 

[Jeff Groves]

I know what you mean. The end of the barracks hallway looked like it was blown open and a battle was in the distance.
When viewed from the other end of the hall. Up close it just did not look as good.
Those days all pictures were on film of course. I lost them when a building I had a trunk in burnt down.

 

[mountie]

I've coached a few people who wanted to do murals..... One was Kenny Youngblood, when He contracted to do a long-length x 8' high mural of '50's race cars on a dirt circle track. For a museum near your neck of the woods. "Coaching" was to limit the detail, which is a hard habit to break when he is so detailed.

Your tail gate will be like new due to stripping it down to all metal / bring it back up to finish coat.
( staying on topic)....

 

[Tonyrodz]

The aluminium is corroding and the paint and primer is peeling right off.
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That's what happens when the aluminum oxidizes, that's "rust", just like when metal oxidizes, it rusts. That's aluminum rust--it gets powder like.

 

[Jeff Groves]

Your tail gate will be like new due to stripping it down to all metal / bring it back up to finish coat.
( staying on topic)....

Yep. Using the proper primer to start would have helped avoid this issue.
I'll use a good epoxy after proper cleaning/sanding/etching and such.
My Son just bought a property next door to him so I may have a good place to do the paint.

 

[mountie]

That's what happens when the aluminum oxidizes, that's "rust", just like when metal oxidizes, it rusts. That's aluminum rust--it gets powder like.

Probably a sort of self-etching primer to start the 1st coat....

Hmmm..... I didn't think "boat corrosion" verses a steel panel.
Maybe attach a zinc to the body.. Ha..

I wonder what will start to happen to all those aluminum Fords??

 

[Tonyrodz]

Probably a sort of self-etching primer to start the 1st coat....

Hmmm..... I didn't think "boat corrosion" verses a steel panel.
Maybe attach a zinc to the body.. Ha..

I wonder what will start to happen to all those aluminum Fords??

They'll turn to dust.