Metamorphosis

Moonstone Blue has been achieved.  Goo is no more and we have renamed her VERA!

I bought my paint from Sherwin Williams.  It was a little upgrade in price, but in the end, I was able to pick the color that I wanted instead of guessing with the Dupli Color.  They were unable to match the exact Moonstone Blue color in their computer – even from all the old chip charts that I had.  But they had some old books and I found a 1967 Chevy truck color that caught my eye.  It was VERY close to Monstone.  I’m really happy with the result.

The job started out looking a little tough.  Tape and masking took much longer than anticipated, and mixing the paint with the reducer and the hardener was a bit of a messy chore.  Plus, after the first coat, it didn’t look like it was covering the camo worth a crap!

But things started to turn around after coat number 2.  In the picture above, the back half has one coat, front has 2.

By the time the 3rd coat went on, I was feeling pretty good.

Since I was painting outside, I got a few bugs trapped in the paint.  Sort of like driving around with little mini Han Solos trapped in carbonite.  But you can only see them if you get right up close.  I was aiming for a 10 or 20 foot paint job (looks good from 10 or 20 feet away) and I think I achieved a 1 foot paint job.

 

I still have quite a bit of scraping to do on the windshield.  Seems that some paint got in through my masking on the front and gave me a nice fine haze.

And a new dilemma… Now may tail lights don’t work.  Rear turn signals work fine, but the brake and tail lights = nuthin!  I need to get them fixed soon, because as soon as I paint some black bumpers and seat frames – this baby needs to get back on the ROAD!

mc