Help with paint color

[dnote]

I have a M101A2 and need to touch up a few spots with paint. Originally I was gonna bedline the entire thing but the green has really grown on me. It's flat OD green. On Rapco's website they have multiple kinds of green. How do I figure out what mine is so it matches properly?

 

[Warthog]

Being a newer model, more that likely it is the latest color. 383 green

 

[dnote]

How do you know it's newer?

 

[MWMULES]

He "WAG'D" it, a picture would help.

 

[dnote]

 

[zout]

Under the paint area of the forum you can learn a lot of different procedures. Just personal on my part I could not run away from Rapco or Gilipsee products fast enough - too many choices other than that now cheaper to paint it up. But I really do not know anything but a multitude of examples that prove different. Just keep looking and reading in the paint and body work of this site. Choice is your.

 

[amgeneral72]

I,d go with Gelispe paint. I painted a few vehicles with Rapco and in a year they were all faded. Then when I spoke to the people at Rapco they said maybe I should park it in a covered area. GET REAL these are Military trucks they spend their entire lives outside. For the past few years I've been using the Gelispe and must have painted at least a dozen vehicles haven't had any problems. Warthog is right. You want 383 CARC substitute.

 

[dnote]

Awesome. I'll look at those threads. Thanks for the heads up

 

[EwaMarine]

Shot this in house paint...half a gallon of 686 tan called desert camel in flat exterior behr glidden waterbased house paint....ahahahahahaha...works fine...

 

[Katahdin]

The picture is a bit too washed out for me to be sure, but that kind of looks like Olive Drab Semi-Gloss 24087 with a Canvas top to me.

 

[amgeneral72]

To each their preference. Im just an oil guy here. But Dave's and EwaMarine's work looks great. Good job and keep it up.

 

[dnote]

 

[dnote]

That's a little better picture I guess

 

[dnote]

That house paint is a cool idea. Could throw it right in the sprayer and spray the whole trailer as it sits in 5 minutes.

 

[Katahdin]

With the newer picture I'm thinking its Marine Corp Forest Green?

 

[EwaMarine]

You guys are going to laugh, but the CARC green looks wicked perfect from Home defect...in fact you guys will trip out, They had the real FS numbers in thier computer at the Kapolei Home Depot here. I asked for FS 34094 (383 CARC green) and they had it!!!!!!!!!!!
They also had the brown and the black...crazy.
So for all the darm film work and the changing of paint schemes left and right I gave up and use BEHR ULTRA. FLAT. EXTERIOR. in your favorite 383 green. They only have the FS colors not the three numbered ones people always refer to here..so ask for FS34094 if you want 383 green...And spray with a normal gun...looks indistinguishable...
I go heavy to make sure it looks right. There is almost no prep needed on these modern MVs...just mix and spray...couple of coats and two weeks in the sun and its good!

 

[dnote]

Sounds like the path I may take! Awesome!

 

[dnote]

My other thought was to paint it as the same color as the tow vehicle

 

[EwaMarine]

 

[EwaMarine]

Our stuff sits on a flightline...rarely goes into the brush...so the abrasion resist is not as hot with the Behr ultra...BUT...if your draggin a trailer? this stuff will last you three or four years.....without fading..just like your house..lol...and its easy to touch up. Got a run? big deal. get a rag...smear it let it tack up and shoot over it again...it will make you feel guilty!...
My advice is if you use the house paint..give it a couple of coats because when it flows out, it thins. So go at least two or three coats. That trailer will use a half gallon...with enough for touch ups using a hlvp gun...