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I'm doing a frame off on a CJ7, 304 v8, flat fender and armored. Will be used for trails in woods, plowing snow, running mud. I'm struggling with what color to paint it, ideas? I want a semi gloss or flat. My daughter said gray camouflage, not doing camouflage, but gray is good.
Don't want navy gray, looks like primer.
Wrong vintage jeep for OD.
I saw Marine (woodland?) Green, looked good (I was in the Marines, so...)
Friend says Forest Green.
I found a Duracoat "German olive gray" that looked good.
Ideas?
Coal Dragger
09-29-20, 21:00
Something around FDE or some sort of tan? Hides dirt and mud.
FDE seems a little over done. Maybe. IDK, I'll think about that. Is there a darker "mud" color? Ideas on that?
Coal Dragger
09-29-20, 21:15
I’m sure a mud brown could be mixed up.
I used this paint when I painted by CUCV. It's single stage and easy to shoot.
http://www.rapcoparts.com/manuals.html
I like both of those. Thoughts?
1_click_off
09-29-20, 22:01
Dark forest green looks good. Buddy has one this color with a wide black vinyl stripe on hood.
I think something that would make it stand out would be a 1970’s Ford FE engine block dark blue color. Think that would be neat. Not the powder light blue, but the darker blue.
Do it up like a Kubelwagen
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6b/7c/ed/6b7cedc3325197547d17bfb5de351bc2.jpg
Jeeps are piss poor investments and moneypits especially under Fiat but if I were rich that’s what I’d do.
THIS is my ultimate redpill though
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dsef41CXgAELtVc.jpg
At this point in time, paint it whatever the background is.
Averageman
09-29-20, 22:28
Naaaah, go the other way.
That Bass Boat, Root Beer Brown with Gold Metal flake and a big ol' Gold Eagle Globe and Anchor on the hood.
We're headed toward the Apocalypse, "F" it have fun.
Hk "baby poop" yellow.
https://www.hkpro.com/forum/attachments/hk-long-gun-talk/27200d1418298625-what-do-you-guys-think-91-worth-money-img_0735.jpg
SomeOtherGuy
09-30-20, 09:52
Aervoe Field Drab. It's a dark tan / medium brown mud color. Search on it, people have painted 4x4s with it so you can get some idea. It's ugly and basically the color of cardboard.
If you want to generate painful love/hate reactions, try Aervoe Earth Yellow.
https://paintgallons.quartertonparts.com/product/34087-wwii-olive-drab-paint-one-gallon/
militarymoron
09-30-20, 12:45
Browse this website to see some different custom jeep colors - they do a lot of custom jeeps and a ton pf great pics of each one:
https://www.tveauto.com/custom-jeeps
Browse this website to see some different custom jeep colors - they do a lot of custom jeeps and a ton pf great pics of each one:
https://www.tveauto.com/custom-jeeps
I like the "tank green" one..
hotrodder636
09-30-20, 14:20
I like that slate/green color you posted a sample of.
Are you planning on using NON-automotive paint? I am suspecting since I saw Ace hardware, or maybe you just showed that for color sample?
Automotive or something similar in toughness. Just trying to identify the color now.
Thx for all the suggested links, I have some research to do!
I'm doing a frame off on a CJ7, 304 v8, flat fender and armored. Will be used for trails in woods, plowing snow, running mud. I'm struggling with what color to paint it, ideas? I want a semi gloss or flat. My daughter said gray camouflage, not doing camouflage, but gray is good.
Don't want navy gray, looks like primer.
Wrong vintage jeep for OD.
I saw Marine (woodland?) Green, looked good (I was in the Marines, so...)
Friend says Forest Green.
I found a Duracoat "German olive gray" that looked good.
Ideas?
I have an 86 CJ-7 Renegade (hence screenname) and I would go with the factory original colors and decals.
Um, nope. Nothing on this thing is factory. The Jonny Cash song is a better description for it. I want a woods jeep, something to slide along a tree as I squeeze through the trail. Narrow front flat fenders, no rear fenders (only armor), old 5 spoke alum rims, and fill length tube steps. No stock paint color.
Um, nope. Nothing on this thing is factory. The Jonny Cash song is a better description for it. I want a woods jeep, something to slide along a tree as I squeeze through the trail. Narrow front flat fenders, no rear fenders (only armor), old 5 spoke alum rims, and fill length tube steps. No stock paint color.
Leave it primer then. You seem to be saying no to every suggestion made.
Something with Krylon. Makes for easier touch up after a weekend out.
Painting my old 65 IIA in krylon tan when I rebuilt it after a roll over accident.
https://i.imgur.com/SyzmX9B.jpg
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Sand blasting in a week or so, excited to get this done and drive it! I added 4.1 gears and a locker at the back, should be fun. Got a 100 acres of woods up north to run on, friend down the road has another 250.
Something with Krylon. Makes for easier touch up after a weekend out.
Painting my old 65 IIA in krylon tan when I rebuilt it after a roll over accident.
https://i.imgur.com/SyzmX9B.jpg
looks great! That color fits it perfect.
I did my frame with fleet farm tractor/implement black so it'd be easy to touch up. I'll save the paint code for annual touch up on the armor.
DIY bedliner inside and out.
Something with Krylon. Makes for easier touch up after a weekend out.
Painting my old 65 IIA in krylon tan when I rebuilt it after a roll over accident.
https://i.imgur.com/SyzmX9B.jpg
I actually like the whole Afrika Korps a e s t h e t i c
I actually like the whole Afrika Korps a e s t h e t i c
Funny with me it felt SAS. But I guess add a couple Pith helmets and some palm tree AK insignia and we are there.
DIY bedliner inside and out.
That stuff just adds a lot more to weight quickly.
When it’s time to frame off my 04 2500 I’m probably gonna go with the USMC coyote brown or OD green.
dwhitehorne
10-01-20, 20:37
Leave it primer then. You seem to be saying no to every suggestion made.
Yeah why not primer brown. You could easily touch up any rock scrapes to the metal and the red clay stains would blend right in. David
P2Vaircrewman
10-03-20, 09:50
My M-151 is Marine Corps semi gloss forest green #24052
http://www.rapcoparts.com/manuals.html
Don’t know where you could have some automotive mixed for you, but I’m painting a couple rooms in my house with Behr “Adirondack Blue.” It’s an amazing color, a faded denim blue but more steel / silver gray. Really sharp looking. Home Depot has the swatch for it if someone makes custom mixed auto paint
P2Vaircrewman
10-04-20, 22:10
Don’t know where you could have some automotive mixed for you, but I’m painting a couple rooms in my house with Behr “Adirondack Blue.” It’s an amazing color, a faded denim blue but more steel / silver gray. Really sharp looking. Home Depot has the swatch for it if someone makes custom mixed auto paint
Most all auto paint is custom mixed, you give them the paint code on the cars build sticker and they mix it, they can also scan a color and mix it.
Another color I’m digging these days is the charcoal grey color. I saw it first on a Taco and have since seen it on F-150s and Silverados. I like it cause it seems subdued/tactical without being OD green or FDE.
Another color I’m digging these days is the charcoal grey color. I saw it first on a Taco and have since seen it on F-150s and Silverados. I like it cause it seems subdued/tactical without being OD green or FDE.
Is that on new, 2020, vehicles? I'd like to find the colors.
Adrenaline_6
10-06-20, 11:39
Toyota Lunar Rock.
https://s.aolcdn.com/os/ab/_cms/2020/07/07193936/MY21_TRD_PRO_Tundra_LR_001.jpg
I would do WW2 uniform German Green/Gray....it kind of blends into different surroundings and is good all year round. The color is a little more green
I build model tanks, figures and aircraft and I am amazed how that color seems to blend in.
For durability I would Rhinoline or Line-X it...
Is that on new, 2020, vehicles? I'd like to find the colors.
They have a color out called cement, which is a subdued mid gray color...
Toyota Lunar Rock.
https://s.aolcdn.com/os/ab/_cms/2020/07/07193936/MY21_TRD_PRO_Tundra_LR_001.jpg
Meh, I thought I liked that color a lot. Wife was about to get a RAV4 in that color, but in most lighting conditions it looks like sage green. Pretty ugly. Guys that like ACU would be into it.
Is that on new, 2020, vehicles? I'd like to find the colors.
I think Toyota has had it on the market for a few years. For the others I think it’s new.
For durability I would Rhinoline or Line-X it...
Bed lining an entire vehicle adds a lot of weight. Just something to be cognizant of.
Adrenaline_6
10-08-20, 11:57
Meh, I thought I liked that color a lot. Wife was about to get a RAV4 in that color, but in most lighting conditions it looks like sage green. Pretty ugly. Guys that like ACU would be into it.
Yea, for a RAV4, no, but I could see a woods Jeep in it.
Monstaliner is what I'm doing my series 80 land cruiser in. I went with brown eyed girl basically chocolate brown).
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