Painting my ExMod

After a bad battle with a tin of blue house-paint, I decided it was time to do this thing right. Taking her (him?) apart, and sanding down as much as I can. I'm using Zero Rust Direct to Metal, which seems to bond well to the ****ty paint that was on there before, as well as the alloy itself in the spots I've sanded through. Pretty cheap stuff, and it should be easy to fill in scratches and cracks as I'm sure to get a few.

Still deciding on color. The green is a bit too "John Deer," but I might try and mix it darker.

Zero Rust

I think the rover looks pretty mean without a top though. Took a drive around the block, sure moves a lot quicker without that extra weight.

op2:

If your going to both sanding it down then might aswell paint it properly, use an etch primer on any bare metal then coat the whole thing in 2 coats of hi build primer, and maybe a 3rd if its still rough, then paint on top of that. you wil have a good smooth finish then and you can use gloss!

philsefo said:

If your going to both sanding it down then might aswell paint it properly, use an etch primer on any bare metal then coat the whole thing in 2 coats of hi build primer, and maybe a 3rd if its still rough, then paint on top of that. you wil have a good smooth finish then and you can use gloss!

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Ok.. your comment bugged me a lot this weekend, so I set about stripping all the latex/house/**** paint off and getting the landy down to the original military paint. I'm gonna sand down to a stable coat, get it all smooth, an then paint it with real paint.

I've gone through to bare metal in a few spots, what's a good way to prime? Can I just use something like this?

Once I get the damn thing stripped, sanded, and etched, I'll prime it and paint it. Probably gonna go with bronze green. There isn't a good looking green rover in town, a few tan, one red, one blue, so I'll be filling the green role.

Dont know the brand but yes thats the etch primer. As somebody has already mentioned follow that with some high build primer to smooth out any scratches or dints, with a rub down with a block sander inbetween coats.
Do you know the story with the bumper over-riders? It looks like there are slots to fit something in the top!
Malc.

Not sure what a bumper over-rider is, but I got the truck painted. It's just direct to metal paint. I ended up spending lots of time on the wiring and ran out of time to paint.

New Paint - Imgur

if you look in that slot in the bumper over riders you'll see a horizontal bar, i'm guessing that is in place of lifting eyes as were fitted to quite a few military landrovers

NiteMare said:

if you look in that slot in the bumper over riders you'll see a horizontal bar, i'm guessing that is in place of lifting eyes as were fitted to quite a few military landrovers

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Oh... Ok, gotcha. Yeah, there are little round bars on the top of the bumper. Looks like you could chain up to it or something.

Seriously though, quit buggin me about the bumper

How's it look?

pretty smart looking truck