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Hey Thanks….Sharleen is really starting to come together for me now. I just started with the front fender and hood on the Drivers side this afternoon while we’re having this nice 70 degree weather for the next couple of days.
Cheers,
C’dub
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Hi Brad,
Thanks for the question.....I'll do my best to help you out.
First off, I don't remove any good paint by sanding, stripping or sand blasting. I attack each area as needed. If it's rusty then I'll sand blast it. The scratches, chips and dry paint in the original CARC were all sanded...
We always used the air valves at the gun in the body shop..........My boss wouldn't let us use any air tool unless it had a valve at the end of it........but with the spray guns it's the best way to regulate just the right amount of air pressure so as to reduce the over spray.
If you notice...
Thank YOU Guys, This was a lot of PAIN staking HARD work to get to this point. I’m so happy to see the woodland come out as well as it did. I still have much work to do on the left / side cab, Hood and Front sides. At least this much is done so far. It took a few days to get the woodland done to...
RE: Awesome!
I had the TM in my hand and marked it out with chalk and sprayed it free hand..........I found that coloring in the printed out TM of each side helped it easy recognition of the patters quicker.
The touch up gun worked out very well. You can almost dial it down to a Air brush...
After doing the research on the Woodland from the TM's and comparing that to what is painted on my Marine Corp. ISO cargo cover. I found that there were very slight differences. I would have to say that the Marine and Army woodland paint scheme are just about the same. Even from all the pictures...
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