NATO paint!!

[jamiesj]

Hi all,
Recently bought my first off roader a 1988 Suzuki Sj hard top completly unmodified, just looking at doing some little mods and just beefing it up a bit as it will be my road car aswell as my off roader any who, its blue at the minute and have had the notion of painting it with NATO paint nice and green ha ha ha never done anything like this before so any advice is welcomed pretty sure its going to be a hand job (steady on) and will be looking to do inside and out, has anyone done this before and does anyone have any close up pics of the finsih of a hand paint job
Cheers Jamie

[Dave123]

Hand paint jobs can come out really quite well as long as you out in the time to prepare the surfaces, Earl, in the Avator is hand painted! Yes there are a few brush strokes but that's because the brush got a  little contamination from the corners. Matt paint is alot easier aswell becuase it's generally alot more forgiving. So the more you prep the better the finish will be  ;)

[jamiesj]

What sort of prep should i do, ive read that the genuine NATO stuff doesnt need too much prep as it will stick to a non stick pan ha haha but i am a total noob to all this

[MudRat]

done a series 2 with 2.5l. of paint, orbital sander to get a good key and a couple of gloss rollers and a brush for the corners, 2 coats jobs a good un.

[zacspeed]

Try THIS   :dance:

[bravo669]

my truck is in a lovely shade of NATO green with NATOblack wheels too!

cant quite see the wheels though!

[TwoSheds]

If you really want an authentic NATO paint job then preparation is the key...

1. Check out the paint - as long as you can pierce the skin with a screwdriver it'll be ok.
2. Stir the paint - the same screwdriver will be fine - you know - it's that big one you used to dig out the remains of the grease from inside the gun? The one that's really good for poking holes in rusty bits? Yes - that's the one! No - don't wipe it on anything, you don't want to contaminate it..
3. Prepare your paint-brush - well first you have to find it. It's probably down the back of the bench in a mess of spilled oil, anti-freeze and grinding dust. Thwap it on the gate post a few times to soften it. (You need the biggest one that will fit in the tin)
4. Prepare the area where you will be painting - if it's inside you might need to sweep up a bit first. Don't worry about getting dust on the car, you will be covering that up soon enough.
5. Hose off the car. Don't worry too much about any contaminants, you are about to cover them anyway.
6. Mask the bits you don't want to paint - for a true NATO look that's only the glass bits - everything else is fine with paint on it.
7. Paint the car.

Repeat the above process about ten times (occasionally using NATO black rather than green paint) until every surface has at least 5mm paint cover and...

I'm done! :D

[waveydavey]

If you want to know what to do with paint have a look here  :D no cutting corners though  [-X

http://www.detailingbliss.com/forum/f47/astra-nurburgring-vxr-3-month-detail-5030.html

I would love to see this blokes reaction to the sheer concept of brush painting!

[generation-x]

something like these you mean
simon

[pux]

Gen i love that SJ  :D :D :D :D and the vit is nice too :D

[generation-x]

they were both built by the offroad armoury on the south coast

this is there new jimny

[winchman]

I did the Vit for £40
Bought the paint here
http://auto-paint.co.uk/carpaint/
£10 a liter acrylic mixed to any colour for the green
£10 under coat
£14 for two aerosols of acrylic matt black
£6 for a 2" brush and a couple of cheap gloss rollers from B&Q
I rubbed it down with a pan scourer
Masked it off the kids did all the big bits and I did the fiddly bits.
I would do it again as its dead easy and looks vastly better for very little out lay

[J_K]

Don't do green.
try something different...






Bought from these people. http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Fascinating-Finishes-Ltd

[bravo669]

i like that, there were a sand coloured RRC at Shipton Bellinger not far from i. it were for sale not long ago but havent seen it for a while, missing presumed sold!lol