norms 55 chevy pu build

[washington blue]

Hit a small milestone last night. Everything that will have blue on it now has primer on it. Still have to block the hood one more time, also a couple small spots here and there. Next it will be 400 wet over the whole thing so there's lots of opportunities to sand through and find even smaller problems. Not complaining, this is my hobby, hope to keep doing this kind of stuff another 13 years - I'll be 80 then, lol. But, hey, Gene Winfield is still going. Too cloudy to see the eclipse today, South Dakota is not in the path anyway, sure is on the news a lot tho.

[dsraven]

keep at it man, you're getting close. thats gotta feel good, eh?

[Jason 56]

Nice progress! Amazing how much gets painted on these old trucks. Can’t wait to see some color.

[washington blue]

Seems like a lot of parts, and that's not counting the chassis which I did earlier. I've painted several cars before this, but cars don't have boxes that come all apart with seperate fenders to boot. I think that is the difference.

[washington blue]

So close, guess 1 more coat aught to do it. the darker colors are where the metal is peeking through.

[washington blue]

Been wet sanding with 400 grit. Finishing up this door, then I have 4 fenders and the cab left. All the little stuff in the pics are done. Can see the lights reflected in the wet, and all the sanding with the long paint stick was worth it, no waves. Been using that same hard rubber block for 40 years, lol.

[dsraven]

nice work. tedious but worth the work
for the long straight parts I prefer to use a longer rubber block, a firm one that won't conform easily. light pressure, a spray bottle or a bucket with clean water. sometimes a hose with a trickle of water above the sanding area. sanding in a crosshatch pattern to avoid flat spots or ridges. this helps avoid ripples. I wet it down and stand back to look at the reflecked light every so often so i know how it looks.

[washington blue]

Yeah, I use the water to see the lights and sway back and forth to make sure the lights reflect right. As a body man friend says, you don't want to break the light. I usually sand in at least 2 different directions with 400.

[washington blue]

been sanding away, now I have the cab in for sanding, this is the last thing I have to do. It's going to take a while with all the edges and nooks.

[washington blue]

After I finish the cab I am going to clean the shop. I think I have about 30 pounds of sanding dust to try to get out.

[washington blue]

Had to stop work to do farm work. Got everything planted then rain. Got stuff sprayed then rain. Got stuff sprayed again then rain. Some flooding, had to repair my driveway but that's all good now. Corn fields have some bare spots from standing water but so it goes. My wife snuck out and took a photo of me cleaning my little paint room, lol. Even tho it was fairly hot day, the damp air and water dripping from the ceiling made it cold in there, so I wore a hooded sweatshirt, lol. Before this I had cleaned the entire shop, spent 3 days cleaning the primer dust off of everything, glad when I got that job done.

[washington blue]

got started with the first taping cleaning etc to get ready for paint. Finally after hours of cleaning sanding and cleaning some more I pulled the trigger on the DeVilbiss.. 2010 Camaro Aqua blue metallic. Pictures do not do it justice at all. I did 3 coats of color, then 3 coats of clear. Just beautiful color.

[dsraven]

yippee, always a great feeling to get the color on. keep plugging away and you'll soon be driving.

[washington blue]

Did the second of 3 sprays on the cab today. How in the world can it take 8 hours to spray the dash and the behind the seat area?

[washington blue]

Took the plastic off the roof as soon as dash and rear area were dry enough. I did not want that touching fresh paint for very long. It was on there about 4 hours or so. Once I get the rest of the plastic off I am going to jack the cab up about 2 feet. This way I will have the firewall and back of cab at a nicely comfortable height, and I can also spray upwards along the bottom edges all the way around. The bottom edges roll under and are hard to get to otherwise.

[washington blue]

I always have a few small peices ready in case I mix up a little too much paint. No waste that way. These are todays small things. Worked out well, as I was spraying the 3rd coat on the last small peice it started spitting air, lol.

[washington blue]

Old faithful, never does a bad job. When I use this gun and my measuring cup I will probably spend 45 minutes cleaning them each time.

[Jason 56]

I like your color choice. Looks to be coming out great. You’re making great progress.

[washington blue]

Thanks Jason, sadly the camera and computer do not do justice to the color at all. A guy needs to google 2010 Camaro Aqua blue metallic, there are tons of pics. It has tons of metallic so I keep swirling my gun all the time so metallic does not settle, lol.

[washington blue]

Got started prepping for the 3rd spray. It's going to work really well up high like it is.

[Russell Ashley]

Looking great. Love the color and the good job you are doing. You might wind up with blue jack stands but that's not really a bad thing, I can see several shades of overspray on some of my tools that reminds me of previous paint jobs.

[washington blue]

Thanks, yeah I have used tools to hold down plastic and other jobs while spraying and they are car colors, lol.

[57FleetsideC4]

Originally Posted by washington blue

Old faithful, never does a bad job. When I use this gun and my measuring cup I will probably spend 45 minutes cleaning them each time.

Progressing nicely. Always nice to see things finish painting. I use a old Devilbis 502. I have had it over 40 years. Steve

[washington blue]

Thanks 57, wow, 40 years is good. I bought mine when a body shop closed and had an auction about 26 or so years ago. I have no idea how old it is, but, it works perfectly for my occasional stuff. I don't think it's an antique or anything, it says JGA on it and Google says they are available for sale.

[washington blue]

Finished getting ready for the 3rd spray today. Got too late to do it today, got ready about 9:30 pm so, I'll spray tomorrow.
Spent extra time taping this up because I don't want any overspray whatsoever getting on the nice painted stuff.
I try to not have tape touch blue paint any more than a bare minimum. When I have no choice but to tape on new paint I rub the tape on my blue jeans so it is not so sticky.
The blue paper on the wall is where I test the gun when I start a new spray to be sure it's working just right.