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This is all Shawn's fault!

Someone here just HAD to extol the virtues of Dupli-Color Textured Metallic.. :p and that someone knows I go a little nuts with spray paint sometimes.. so the purchase of two cans of Graphite later, I had to find something to test it out on. I just happened to have a freshly-stripped-of-its-trim bumper strip that was pitted and showing lots of yellow.

Of course, I might as well go for the full sunburn, which I got. Decided to do some more green painting above the grille. It looks awful now, but it needs to sit for a few days and then get a good wet sanding and clearcoating, and it should look much closer to the grille's color. (deep jewel green metallic)

First, from above, in full sunlight:


Next, in the shade of the house's shadow, front shot:


Lastly, side shot in the shade:


I like how it came out. I might even do that to the '86's fading black bumper strip. Will probably match the mirrors on the '88 to the strip, as well. (and if I take it to the '86, it'll also get matching graphite everywhere I've blacked out) Once I figure out the final desired paint scheme for the '88, (some combination of a dark green and a dark blue, probably) I'll pick a trim strip replacement from Aerobird Motorsports' site.. I'm thinking either black or dark green.

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Reply #1 –
The Grille is green ? looks very good (and unusual) and modern . I have never seen before a grille of this color. what brand was the paint ?
Any combination of colors or a "secret method" ?

1985 Mercury Cougar V6
1989 F-200 V8
1996 Explorer V6
2001 F-150

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Reply #2 –
The grille is deep jewel green metallic.. *should* be pretty much the same color as Mercoug302's new (and sweet) Mark VIII. The paint I used was DupliColor Truck and SUV paint. I cannot for the life of me get a picture that does this color justice. It's a gorgeous dark green, but it always blurs/fades/washes out in any picture I've taken with two different digital cameras.

Ideally, my desire is to paint the top part of the car one color, probably deep jewel green.. from the top body line up. (the line where most of our cars have pinstriping just below) Then, from the bumper strip down, paint it in either the original dark blue or a close color. (also something like a proper cobalt blue would work for me) Then I would like to paint the spot in between the top body line and the bumper strip with a color-change blue/green paint that matches each color.. so that depending on the light, the two-tone boundary would change. (either the top body line or the bumper strip)

If I find a blue/green color-change paint where I can also get matching single-color paints that are close to DJG and the original dark blue, I would go for that. I'd probably put a single fatter pin-stripe along the top body line and be done with that.. and pick one of the Aerobird Motorsports trim strips in green, blue, or black.

EDIT: Allow me to illustrate with a cheesy MS Paint edit.

- From the yellow line up, dark green.
- From the yellow line down to the blue line, color-change blue/green.
- From the red line down, dark blue.
- The green line is for the replacement trim.. haven't determined color yet.

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Reply #4 –
Unreal.

Two cans of paint. Same color name, same color cap on each, two COMPLETELY different colors. (OK, it's not from the same batch, if I understand the numbers on the bottom correctly) But still.. here:

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Reply #5 –
Now that that's out of the way.. here's a pic of how the second can turned out on the back:

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Reply #6 –
Think I'm going to write a complaint to DupliColor about the difference in the two cans of textured.

Here's yet another attempt at taking a decent picture of the green, which I sanded and clearcoated today. Had to up the color saturation on this pic.

Came out pretty good for spray paint. Got a lot of problems with orange peel, though. The  overspray dries so quickly, it lands everywhere else as powder and I have to spray and spray and spray to try to get paint down quick enough to deal with it.
 

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Reply #7 –
mmm, let me say, bad luck with the spray cans, but one time i repainted my ATV Quadrunner, Red......first one side with a can, and after the other side with another can of the same color , same brand......After that paint job, we called it the "zebra"....was very annoying....

  Hey, i can appreciate the color of the grille better. Looks very nice !
1985 Mercury Cougar V6
1989 F-200 V8
1996 Explorer V6
2001 F-150