Project Snowball- Slow build

[rs74]

Originally Posted by Claytona08

Hey Roy, so you decided to paint the truck Indigo Blue? Man I can feel your pain on this paint and body mess. I have to take my truck back up there to have a few things fixed. I found some overspray on the passenger door, a small ding on the bed they missed and they nicked the paint when installing the hood. They told me about the overspray and nicked paint but I think they just missed the ding. It's small but I didn't pay all this money to have a ding in my truck. They also have to wet sand and buff the whole truck out. They didn't want to wet sand and buff without all the windows in it because they said it makes a lot of dust / mess. I really hate to drop my truck off because I am a little worried I won't see it again until spring!!!! Great progress on your project up to this point!

Thanks. Since the last update they have blasted the bottom of the bed and also did the bottom of the cab and the interior of the cab. Last week they sprayed some SEM rust shield under the bed, cab, and the cab interior. Hopefully they will be getting ready to spray some color on the door jams, firewall and spray the front side of the bed and back of the cab so we can mount the cab and bed back on the frame.

After that gets done then it is going to come home for awhile. I will start putting all the wiring and ac/heater stuff back under the dash. I think I have switched gears a bit for the interior color though. I had bought a complete charcoal gray interior out of another C10 but I think I am going to go with the lighter gray that is in the burbs and blazers. I want to put in a set of factory burb buckets and console. The only thing I am up in the air about is what color to paint the interior of the cab. It was going to be the factory steel gray code 90 but I am tinkering with the idea of painting it the marbled silver that will be on the bottom of the truck.

Once it is home then I can work on getting the drivetrain back in. I will have to order all new weather stripping for everything and put all that in including the vent windows. I have a set of spare doors that I will transfer everything over from. Will probably put in new window motors at that time. There will still be a ton of work to do even to get it to the point where it can go back to the paint shop for final paint. I still have to put back some funds for that yet. I ended up spending that money on the two K30's I bought.

[Claytona08]

If the lighter gray interior is a little darker than the marbled silver I say paint the interior the marbled silver. Glad they are making some progress on your truck!

[Claytona08]

I think the truck will look really good the blue and silver. Yeah I like them big mirrors and trim. If you are like me once you get the truck home you will find little things that they missed and expect them to be fixed before they call the job complete. Some things are very minor to most people but to the truck owner dishing out the money for the paint those little things become big things, lol

[rs74]

Figured I better put up the pics of the Sem rust shield that was sprayed on the cab and bed. Some of the pics are sideways. I am going to try to get to the shop Thurs. or Fri. to see when he can spray me some sample pieces of the paint.

[rs74]

Going out to the paint shop tomorrow to look at some paint chips. I guess the Indigo has a little metalflake but has more pearl than anything in it. So I have to see if the Marblehead color will look similar as far as having the right metalflake content in it. I need to try and get them close so they blend together when you look at it. I don't want it to look like one is just a plain color and the other has the pearl/metalflake.

Hopefully I can come up with something and maybe get some paint on some of it next week. If he can get it trimmed out then I will take my frame out and get the cab and bed set back on.

[Claytona08]

Originally Posted by rs74

Going out to the paint shop tomorrow to look at some paint chips. I guess the Indigo has a little metalflake but has more pearl than anything in it. So I have to see if the Marblehead color will look similar as far as having the right metalflake content in it. I need to try and get them close so they blend together when you look at it. I don't want it to look like one is just a plain color and the other has the pearl/metalflake.

Hopefully I can come up with something and maybe get some paint on some of it next week. If he can get it trimmed out then I will take my frame out and get the cab and bed set back on.

Man I am glad to hear they are making some progress! Post pics when they spray some samples. I dropped my truck back off yesterday to have it wet sanded and buffed and for them to fix a few minor things. They said it'll take 4 days which actually mean 4 weeks. You know what I mean right?

[rs74]

Originally Posted by Claytona08

Man I am glad to hear they are making some progress! Post pics when they spray some samples. I dropped my truck back off yesterday to have it wet sanded and buffed and for them to fix a few minor things. They said it'll take 4 days which actually mean 4 weeks. You know what I mean right?

Yeah I know all about the paint jail unfortunately. First of March will make a year. I got a few chips today. I would post a pic of them but unless you see it in person it doesn't do it justice. Unless the Indigo is in the right light it just looks like a midnight blue or darker. He first showed it to me and I was like this isn't working for me. It didn't have the pizazz I thought and was looking for. Then he brought out some kind of light that is supposed to simulate sunlight and then it really popped the color. So I think we are on the right track.

Leaning more towards the silver color for the interior although that means that everything I bought from the donor truck is the wrong shade of gray. I will have to find me a burb and blazer for interior pieces if this is the route I go. Kind of sucks but I think the lighter gray will go along with the outside paint scheme better. I might just go ahead and snap some pics of the chips anyway and throw them on here. Hopefully if I can get back there on Monday and let him know 100% that is what I want then he can start trimming everything out by the end of the week.