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Well, I just painted another test piece. I did the best job in prep. Scotch-brite and wipe down with brake clean. The primed with zinc cromate. This one I painted full strength in the shade. It seems like if the metal is hot, it's not as smooth. It still has some texture. I'm going to let it...

So I see you are in Texas. You probably have the same weather I have. Did you spray in a booth? More importantly, did you spray in shade?

Looks great! Did you spray full strength? What kind of gun? I guess I will wait some on my test pieces before I make up my mind.

Paint woes, I know you guys sware by this paint, but I'm slightly hesitant. I decided to paint some sample pieces to see how it works. This part can't be seen when on the truck, so I'm not worried about how it looks. I sprayed this un thinned on a hot day in full sun. I know flat looks the...

How long before it won't scratch? I bought the paint about a year ago. It sat in my garage. It never froze, but it gets cooked everytime the sun shines. Do you think the paint is ruined? (It looks fine)

Ok, I'm getting close to painting my project. I've got the right colors and did some sample spraying with a gun I got at Lowes. My problem is the paint doesn't seem to be very hard. I can scratch it easily with my fingernails. Maybe I'm not waiting long enough. I put the samples out in the...

When I click on this link, it takes a few minutes to come up. (No big deal) But when I scroll down looking for a HEMTT, I get to about page 125 and it goes blank and kicks me completely off the Internet. When I reopen, the long download starts over. It comes up and I start scrolling again and I...

As I understand it, Marquee is the better paint. Is this right or is it just differnt? The quarts I got were just for checking the color. I plan to buy the Marquee. That comes to my next question. How much do I need? My truck is the size of a big pickup.

Today I sprayed out some of the green and black. The green looked really dark in the can, but it looks nice on the piece of aluminum I sprayed. I'm very happy with the black too. The only issue I ran into was when I sprayed the black on the green, it had a little splatter. I want a "faded"...

Ok, I went to HD and asked for a sample of Bahr Marquee in two colors. I wanted to spray some out to make sure of the color. The two colors I asked for were 34094 (green) and 37030 (black). The woman in the paint section explained they offer paint in small jars (maybe a pint), quarts, gallons...

Wow, nice. Did you practice much before doing those trucks? On a side note, what is "parsec"?

So is it the general consensus that the HF hplv sprayer is adequate for doing a paint job with the Behr? How about doing the "free hand" camo?

I have the same thread here. Maybe it will work better. https://www.fullsizebronco.com/forum/57-78-96-build-forum-builds-only/197652-molasses-project-92-a.html Im using a Cummins 4BT with a manual body C6. The first page of the build thread is in 2011. I started about a year before that.

Thankyou, I have a build thread here. https://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/general-4x4-discussion/2017234-amphibious-hemtt.html I am thinking satin. When you say "military black", do you mean the "aircraft black" listed in the link you posted above.

That's a long download. After it's done, I scroll down. Around page 145, (of 400) it shuts off my computer. Strange, it did it three times. Of course, 145 is not down to the HEMTT's yet.

I wasn't sure if this project would be considered blasphemy on this site.

The truck is a semi-replica of a HEMTT that I'm building from aluminum. It has never been painted. I need to paint the back sides. There are also some parts that wil be hard to paint because they will behind something. This is is probably a stupid question. Is the behr paint CARC? I thought...

Thanks for quick reply. Actually, what I want to do is disassemble the truck and paint everything green. Then assemble it and paint the black. It will take me a long time to get it together. So would there be a problem painting the black several months later? It will be inside, so no rain. But...

This is the paint scheme I'm looking for without the brown. I'm thinking of painting the whole truck green first. Then come back later and do the black. Is that the way you guys would do it? If so, How soon after painting the green would I need to do the black? Would I mask the parts I want to...

So I went to HD and asked for the federal standard 24084 and 24087. He showed me a computer screen with the two colors. They both looked brown! I told him it was supposed to be green and he said they look differnt on screen. I have to buy a sample to see the color. Kind of sucks. Is that how you...