preview of new paint

Edited: 2/3/2009 8:46:36 PM by humanmachinehead

een REALY busy lately with work, plus with the cold weather i haven't had time to work on the truck in a while. But i figured since it won't get done for awhile i'll go ahead and post some pics of what i've been doing to her. Hoping to finish up once it gets alittle warmer.


the guy that had the truck before me must have gone to macco lol
 


stripped it to the metal and re-etched and primed it
 


started scuffing the cab to get silvered again
 


little weather stripping trick
 


recruited the GF lol
 


 


 


 


fixed the bed rail damage
 


based and started for the graphic
 


after this pic i added some rootbeer candy to add some "rust" and also did the rivets
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h259/humanmachinehead/100_3907.jpg 


 


 


 cell phone pics are all i got of the final grapics with the pinstriping




 


added a herculiner too, shits awesome
 


 


 

lol, ya beat me too it, thanks tho 

SIC WORK MAN

thanks, hopefully ill have time to finish it after my work gets back from daytona bike week. next month

your paint job looks great

Hell yeah bro!!   I wish I had a paint job

--------------------------------------------- Originally posted by lost cause Hell yeah bro!!   I wish I had a paint job --------------------------------------------- Tell ya what, you paint mine i'll paint yours 

Very cool concept and it looks like you know what your doing with an airbrush and striper as well. Can't wait to see the truck completed.

--------------------------------------------- Originally posted by 01blue Very cool concept and it looks like you know what your doing with an airbrush and striper as well. Can't wait to see the truck completed. --------------------------------------------- thanks, i dropped art school for painting cars, so it was kind of any easy thing to pick up, but i'm def still learning.  I got supper lucky and found a guy 8 miles from home with a bike shop looking for a painter that in his words "hasnt leared alot of bad habits yet" lol so i couldn't be happier with the way it worked out.  he def knows a thing or two about painting...

looks awesome!