OK, so most all the major mechanical work is finalize on my truck after 2 years of restoration. Now, on to the esthetics. As the attached photo shows, the truck has quite a few paint layers on it. It was Ex-MOD Ambulance. The first layer looks to be a aluminum conversion coat, the second a primer, the third a bright red (maybe Masai), the fourth a Dark Green and lastly, the real potential problem, a layer of latex house paint. The PO was a house painter and created a camo scheme using latex house paint he had left over. Actually pretty cool. But now, I was thinking of redoing with one of original LR colors (Mid Grey or Marine Blue).
I was thinking the original conversion coating, primer and factor red are actually valuable protective layers, that if I could preserve them, would be better than stripping to base aluminum and starting over. I experimented with using a latex paint stripper and it worked pretty well at getting me down to the original paint layers only. I would then just have to sand or soda blast a bit and recoat.
Does anyone have experience or opinion on whether I should just take it down to aluminum and start all over or try and work with keeping original factory paint layers. I dont need a showroom finish. Just a decent, quality look.
I was thinking the original conversion coating, primer and factor red are actually valuable protective layers, that if I could preserve them, would be better than stripping to base aluminum and starting over. I experimented with using a latex paint stripper and it worked pretty well at getting me down to the original paint layers only. I would then just have to sand or soda blast a bit and recoat.
Does anyone have experience or opinion on whether I should just take it down to aluminum and start all over or try and work with keeping original factory paint layers. I dont need a showroom finish. Just a decent, quality look.
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