1963 Us Navy Dj-3a

Got the headlight rings and fender flares off. Then I scrubbed the whole thing with Scotch Brite:


Next I need to blow it off, wipe it down with some thinner and do some basic masking.

I can't decide if I want to leave the diamond plate bare aluminum for that 70's look or paint it blue to hide it a little:


Here's some more pictures of the lovely body and why I'm fine with rattle can paint and banging it into trees:

 

If I know you, your going to fix all that rot before even picking up a rattle can!!

 

Painted diamond plate armor is up there with black wheels in my book.

 

Maybe I should paint the armor black?

 

That’s what the cool kids are doing.

 

If it's not steel is it really armor?

 

Rust hole covers?

 

Fifty shades of primer.

 

Mine are 12ga steel.

 

Is this the right amount of patina to shoot for?

 

Time to schedule it for a service job. The paint actually looks pretty good-----

 

That is without any doubt the reason for most of that application. I like the "leave it" and bash the hell out of it.

 

Ouch!

 

THIS!

 

If the body has any less than this much damage in a year, I’ll be disappointed.

 

The glorious task of masking has begun.





When I was taking off the driver side wiper arm, I set the special Toyota nut on the cowl. Then 30 seconds later, I noticed all the dust and junk removing the wiper had also dropped on the cowl. Without thinking, I instinctively brushed it off, sending the nut flying under the pile of parts that is the nearby CJ-2. 45 minutes later after moving a D60 axle, a bunch of rubber mats, and an entire CJ-5 lift kit (that was stashed under the CJ-2), I finally found the nut UNDER one of the jackstands holding it up. What a waste of time that was:

 

Been there done that!!

 

Its always the LAST place you look.....

BTDT, dropped parts plenty of times expecting them to be on the floor, when they decided that hiding in a crossmember or on top of the transmission was the best idea ever..... more time wasted, I guess....

 

Masking done. I'll get it painted this weekend.





Under the hood too. I don't want overspray on my new wiring:

 

Snuck out to the shop after the wife and dogs went to bed and laid down some paint to see how this is going to go.

So far, I like it:


Once it's dry tomorrow, I'll take some Scotch Brite and "age" it a little. I did a multi-layer process so different things will come out depending on where you sand through the blue.

First is a layer of red oxide primer over the high spots:


Dark grey primer over the low areas:


Light gray primer in the mid areas:


Dark blue in the low areas:


Then finally royal blue with a little dark primer and dark blue fogged over that:


We'll see what it looks like when it gets scuffed.

After that, I was getting light headed. I'll have the doors open when I do the rest of it tomorrow.