Looks factory, nice job!

Wow... great job!

With your left hand, reach across your chest, put it over your shoulder and give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done.  :-)

RTM wrote:

I did have to sand the hood down because I had some vapor pop leaving small dimples behind. Then I sanded through the clear coat and had to touch it up. As I said everything ends up with a second go around. I got the two more coats of clear sprayed on the hood and no more craters in the clear. The roof I had to stripe down and redo. Not the paint, just the primer. It's been so hot here and I ended up having gas pin holes in my primer. Roof is painted and good to go now. Some times it's best to slow down and it ends up being faster.

If you had issues and learned from them while producing an excellent result, all the better.  IMHO you're due a second pat on the back for getting an excellent result by sticking with it and finding solutions to all the issues that prevented achieving the outcome you wanted. :-)

BobE wrote:

I agree with John Ha, you’ve done a great job, and all w/o a humidity/temperature-controlled spray booth.
Your reward is a job well done. Congratulations!

 
Thank you guys.   It's been a real challenge with a few set backs.  But I learned a few things.

Looks really cool.

Finished the cab painting today.  I'll let it dry and install a new manual rear sliding window.  I would have painted the bedsides yesterday but I realized I didn't have enough clear coat to spray the sides.   I did have enough to finish the cab. 

A lot of stuff to do but getting closer. 

Finished spraying the bed yesterday.   It's the last of the body that needed painted.  I had to buy more clear coat to finish it.   I was spraying AUE-40 which is only sold in a five gallon can.  Well four gallons of clear and one gallon of hardener.  It's what I had left over from painting my mustang.  This clear likes to keep flowing which really helps prevent orange peel, but is easy to get runs in it.  So I bought Deltron 2021 which is suppose to be comparable to the AUE clear.  The 2021 goes on heavy and I found myself trying to spray it like I was spraying the AUE.  So I do have a little more orange peel but it'll wet sand and buff right out.  It was hard to trust myself to spray even heavier with the 2021, was afraid to get runs.  But this stuff goes on and doesn't move/sag at all.  I think if I had the proper reducer for it I could have laid a better spray down. 

I decided to not spray sanding primer before paint.  I prepped the old paint/surface with 400 grit. I did lightly sand the epoxy primer with 600 grit to knock down any dirt and to see it I had and heavy sanding marks visible.   It's a daily driver so I'm not trying to get it show car flat. 

Today I have our daughter's baby shower and I volunteered to go into work tomorrow on my day off.  Hoping I will have time to apply the bed liner later today. 

It continues to look great!