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Hey Guys,
I am curently doing some body work on my 89 Vitara JX, cos it's seen better days... and currently deciding just to touch up the areas or respray the whole thing...
Actually it doesn't look that bad in the photo But its worse in real life..
Just wondeing what cool paint jobs/effects have you seen on other 4wd's (not just suzuki's) that i could adapt for mine preferably with pic's
i would think, if it goes off road, to just respray the whole car, but use a basic, or common paint code, so you can buy pressure packs to touch up if ever you need to.
flames on a vitara?
two tone?
mettalic, 2 pak and pearl may be harder for touch ups and so on, but will look heaps better than just a flat colour.
i didnt want to clear coat over the top of mine, and i cant spray 2 pak at home, so i went for the enamel. put a bit more hardener in, and it sets and dries rock hard. you get faint scratches and so, but they come out, and its harder to chip etc. and it also came out glossy too. sorta.
i painted mine with rattlecans of hammertone paint. its the stuff you would usually see box trailers painted in, with the ripply mottled look. its dirt brown and no gloss.
I used a super high gloss rustoleum brand spray paint. Yellow and black. It came very good and even. Black even had a mirror finish like a factory paint job. My next paint will be with the red rustoleum mettalics line. The mettalics line comes high gloss with what looks like metal flakes.
My dad used to be a panel beater from a while back so he's got most of the tools still. He was suggesting i do big flames or two tone (or more) without hard/straight lines as then when (not if) you need to re-touch it the blending is easier as you don't have to do the whole panel, you can just do upto the line/area and no-one will know where the line used to goto anyway...
But he suggested find a picture of one i like and then use it as a template.. so that's what i'm trying to do here
But its worse in real life..
preferably with pic's
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