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Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
Good evening ,Can someone give me some tips on painting the “Chevrolet”
On my tailgate . What’s the best way and also the best paint. Thank you Posted via Mobile Device |
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
does it have to be paint? i think you can get some decals for that.
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Tape it off around the letters and cover it with newspaper then paint the letters. It will take some time to tape up but will be worth it when done.
Are find a local hand painter to paint it for you. ![]()
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
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BTW - I used to paint the tailgate and the tail lamp brackets every spring to control the rust. K
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
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I think you could get away with using a foam roller with a light amount of paint and light pressure. Might take a few times to get solid color
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
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Just not the way they were intended to be used. Peel the letters prior to clear and add extra to the letter area to make it a super smooth transition.
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
before taping it off yourself, recommend asking for a few closeups of folks' stock GM letter paint on the board so you can see exactly where the mask lines are. I'd also make sure to use thin pinstriping tape to outline the letters, and THEN mask the larger voids with wider tape. Makes it a lot easier to make smooth curves around the perimeter. Make sure that you have a continuous laydown of the pinstripe tape, i.e. not just around the curves with wider tape over-lapped for the long straights of the letters - avoiding overlaps on the inner painted edge will help prevent paint from bleeding under. Use light coats. Good luck and show us pics!
![]() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqDome8JPM4 If painting the whole tailgate, you can also paint the letters first and then just mask them off, and then paint the rest of the gate. Makes for slightly easier masking work - but only applies if you're painting everything. If letters only, then gotta mask the rest of the gate. |
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Awesome thank you ! I’ll post pictures of the end result !
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
I have had good luck painting anything raised like that by using a ridged piece of foam or piece of wood with rubber on it. Just use a roller and apply the paint on the foam or rubber then blot the paint on. Use paint sparingly and do many coats. I have done things as small as raised letters on pinewood derby wheels with excellent results.
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
For the best and most professional results....
Paint the letters the desired color, at least one extra coat of paint, lets say 4 wet coats. Let it dry and while still in the paint recoat window paint the entire tailgate body color, avoid excess paint on the letters, use lighter coats, lets say one medium coat snd one wet coat. Let it all dry. Wet sand the letters with a sanding block, 800 or 1000 grit to reveal letter color then 1200 or 1500, polish to perfection. |
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
I just got my truck painted. I wanted the letters white, bought white letters with the thought of painting them white and using them to cover the letters while painting the rest of it. They looked so nice we left them on. I wanted to shadow the letters with a darker color, but this is what we did.
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This. I’ve seen all variety to do raised areas. While this method is labor intensive, produces perfect ‘soft’ edges with zero tape lines. Steve weim55 Colorado |
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
If you want them hand painted, use one shot brand lettering and striping paint, and a good sign lettering brush...I freshened mine up in about 3 minutes, not 100% perfect, but neither is the truck...
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
A different scenario - but on my '68, the previous owner painted the CHEVROLET letters white in contrast, but did a horrible job masking it off. I took the gate to a local pinstriper who outlined with black and gray to make a shadowed look, and I was really happy with the results.
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Glad to help, sir! And I know exactly what you mean..
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
That tailgate looks great. I love the contrast makes it stand out.
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
I'm the inverse of you guys with the raised letters but let me show you what I did. I am FAR from a professional painter. In fact, I still use single stage paint. All the photos of my work are shots of stuff I sprayed myself. I use PPG Omni MP170 epoxy primer on bare steel and shoot Omni MAE Acrylic Enamel over that. I'm very satisfied with the results.
First off I recorded the factory paint job on the letters. They were punching these things out by the thousands so the detail work around the letters wasn't that great. You can see what looks like green over spray on the white letters. And if you look at the top right of the "C" you can see it is far from perfect.
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
I first sprayed the tailgate green. Then I masked around the indented letters and sprayed that white.
Wet sand, wet sand, wet sand...
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
Then I taped off the letter area I wanted to stay white, scratched the fresh green and now some white paint, and re-sprayed green.
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
Voilà
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Re: Tailgate painting on my 69 c10
Mrien - Very nice
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