Great progress so far on a nice looking truck!
Don’t feel too bad about the oil splatter. The last time I painted my truck I was about ready to shoot the last coat on the left rear quarter of the truck when I had to stop for a paint gun refill. Like a complete first timer, I failed to disconnect the hose as I mounted the gun in the rack. After filling the cup with paint, I stepped on the hose and threw an entire quart of paint all over the back fender, cab, bed, etc. I’d classify that one as a three day mess because that’s how long it took to clean everything up and reshoot the damaged section. The picture doesn’t do it justice, it looked much worse in real life!
That looks like a very cool front suspension setup. Do you know what brand it is?
One tip for painting small parts in bad weather – use a pair of heat lamps. I have two permanently mounted over the bench where I paint, and adjust the distance from the object being painted depending on what I’m doing. This also works perfectly for applying wrinkle finish paint. The metal can be brought up to oven temperatures before shooting the paint, which guarantees a uniform wrinkle.
They can be seen on both sides above these recently painted wheels:
