Project Orange
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For just over a year now I’ve been giving my buddy a hand to restore his Toyota Hilux that was in a hell of a state. We’re getting close to finishing now and have got some booth time booked for next weekend, so I though it was about time I put up some pictures
Doesn’t look too bad at a distance
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But there were plenty of nasties hiding under that bright coloured paint:
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He’s been doing all of the cutting and welding, with me coming along afterwards to tidy everything up! :lol1
As you can see, the last respray wasn’t exactly thorough :wak
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But that’s been sorted now
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Bed sides were in such a bad state that he ordered two new ones direct from Japan
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Now as I say, I’ve got booth time booked so I need to get a move on and get it all finished off. My worst worry is the colour we’re using. It’s Ford Electric Orange, which I’ve painted in the past and it’s covering power is ridiculously bad. Adding the fact that I’ll be spraying solvent base for the first time in years, and I’m not exactly looking forward to it :unsure:
Thankfully DeBeer do a groundcoat in WB that is almost exactly the right colour, just non-metallic, so I’ll be covering the whole thing in that first. Hopefully that’ll make my life a bit easier.
I’ll try and get some pics of the final prep as it progresses this week, and maybe some action shots of next weekends shoot, which I’ll put on the project page [url=http://s321.photobucket.com/albums/nn385/Duluxdude/Work/Project%20Orange/?start=all][b]here[/b][/url] 🙂
looking good andy. never seen one of those older toyota’s in a quad cab version. dont think they had a quad cab here in the states until around 2000 or 2001 in the Tacoma
Thanks.
It’ll be pretty handy when finished as he’ll have enough seats to move his kids around, but can use it as a shop vehicle, throwing engines and stuff in the back.
Talking of engines, the smoky old diesel has been swapped for something with a bit more pulling power
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Nice little project. Nothing like cutting in parts on the floor :blink: Should look great when finished.
I like it Andy! Looks like you made the best out of the area you had to work in thats for sure. I’ll be looking forward to the finished pics. :cheers
[quote=”Matrix Paint Systems” post=18401]Nice little project. Nothing like cutting in parts on the floor :blink: [/quote]
😆 Not exactly best practice is it? 😆 Unfortunately needs must as the guy doesn’t have anything resembling a panel stand!
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No pictures (since nothing appears to have changed), but I’ve been over every inch of it again over the past few nights and repaired all of the minor damage it’s picked up while being stood for over a year!
The inside of the bed is going to be lined out with ply, but It’s had a sand down ready for a couple of coats of epoxy primer on Thursday night. That should be enough protection under the wood, and it’ll also help to hold down any dust that’s collected in there.
looks like a lot of work u guys had to do on that truck. nice work andy
Look like she’s coming together. :rock
sweet! they didn’t offer a 4 door or a diesel on those trucks here. they still don’t offer diesel…. arch
I’ve been doing loads of work on the truck this week, but nothing really looks any different except for the load area:
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Smothered in a nice thick blanket of epoxy primer to keep future rust at bay. I’ll probably put a bit of colour inside there, but it’s going to be lined out with ply so doesn’t need to be pretty.
I’ve also been going over every square inch of the bodywork again. Some of it was prepped well over a year ago, so I needed to make sure it was all still ok. We’ve also been tracking down all the little bits and pieces that need painting; fuel filler flap, bonnet scoop, that sort of thing. Some of them took some finding after all this time ( it was stripped September 2009) 😆
Big day tomorrow B)
Looking good Andy :clappy looking forward to the finished project
Cheers. Me too.
It’s probably going to be the longest time I’ve ever spent in a booth on one car due to the poor hiding power of the colour. Any rub through areas need a coat of off-white sealer, then it’ll be getting full coverage of an orange ground coat (maybe 2-3 coats in some places), then several coats of the actual colour, which is almost like a pearl loaded candy.
Why couldn’t he have picked an easy colour like black! :lol1
Boy my arms ache!! I don’t think I’ve ever spent 4 hours painting one car before :blink:
Anyway, arrived this morning to find the truck squeezed into a rather tiny booth. I hadn’t seen the place before today, and there certainly wasn’t much room to manoeuvre once everything was in there. But I cracked on and spent a couple of hours cleaning everything down and taping up. And here it is ready for paint:
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Two coats of DeBeer water borne ground coat were thrown on.
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Then the colour – a solvent base by Pro Spray. Never ever again will I use this stuff!!!
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It looks OK, but that’s after 6 coats. Covering power is always bad with this particular colour, but that’s a hell of a lot of basecoat to throw on. I ended up using all of the paint the owner had bought, which mixed down 3:1 to give around 5½ litres ready for use, and I’m still not convinced I’ve covered it 100%.
But we had no more paint left, couldn’t get any more today, and were running out of booth time anyway, so he decided I should just go ahead and clearcoat it. Two full coats of DeBeer 8-214 were used. Normally 1½ coats are ample, but I figured the finish might drop slightly due to all that basecoat, so wanted plenty of depth to flat & polish back if necessary:
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It came out fairly clean, but there was no chance of a decent reflection shot due to the colour.
That looks great Andy! How come the owner didn’t just buy debeer basecoat?
It’s a long story, but he’s a very good friend of mine, and bought the base a long time ago without consulting me first. If it were a regular customer I’d have made him buy some decent stuff, but as he’s a mate I decided to go ahead with what he’d got.
Never again though 😆
On a brighter note, it looks like I may be able to use the booth again on the odd occasion. They’ve let people use it in the past and have come back to a right old mess, and loads of missing materials. The booth owner was impressed that I’d brought absolutely everything with me, right down to 5 gallons of diesel to run the burners, and left no trace behind that I’d ever been there (apart from the rather orange filters! 😉 )
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