Are you going to put on a brush guard with that? And run same color? I do like the coloring I just have always had my kits coyote
Brown etc. up here driving in the woods with my
Big red Tahoe sticks out
But it does help if I get stuck since I live far out and have about 2 feet at least of snow everywhere. I was thinking of doing a tactical minded color job when I get my NBS suburban z71 next year.
Probably no brush guard, I like the clean look without it but we'll see. I'd like to do custom bumpers at some point.
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I had a few hours of free time and got a few more things checked off the list. I started by sanding down, priming, and re-painting the rear tail caps black.
Yep, my garage is a mess. The paint job project has really taken its toll on it so that will be yet another project on my list after I'm done with this.
I will let them cure a few days and then wet sand them.
Then I pulled the rig out of the garage and wet it down to get all of the dust/light overspray off to see where I stood.
Everything looked pretty good, so at this point I'm just trying to get a bit of sheen (just a little, it is a ultra flat paint job of course), even out any blotchy areas, and make it smooth to the touch. I started with the front left fender using 1200 grit 3M wetordry paper and you can see the difference when wet. Wetsanding was very simple, basically I just kept the area as a whole wet using a hose and had a small bucket I got just for this task to dip the paper in. The bucket was small enough to rest on the tires which made access easy. Kept sanding with back and forth motions until there was no resistance, or if the paper started getting stuck it indicated it was too dry. Paint is as smooth as a factory paint job.
Tackled the rest of the body using the same method. When wet you can't even tell it's a flat paint job, but once it dries up it's still definitely the flat look I was going for. I'm very surprised by the results, everything is really coming along.
Things are obviously looking pretty smooth so I just took the hose and a standard sponge to it to get off any wet sanding residue that didn't come off with just the hose.
Following pics are wet or mostly wet:
Half Dry:
Nearly Dry:
And a pic of my Z, just for S&G's. Preparing for body kit install, hopefully next weekend.