Love your rebuilt. I wanna do the same on my ex mod 90. Question. Your paint job. It is. Prime sand them colour base and sand down then clear lacquer on or was it one spray job and polish up ? I want to do mine in black gloss and they tell me no need to sand down just polish up after spray it that correct
First sand down the panel so it is nice and smooth. Also so the paint has something to bite into. Next you need to etch prime any exposed alloy (etch primer fairly potent stuff) once that's dried then put down the primer. Sand the primer back so it removes any orange peel and grain that may exist. Thats why people normally give it a dusting of black paint so they can tell where they need to sand some more.
From here you can go which ever way you please with the paints out there. In my experience using a base coat clear coat is the way to go over 2k colours.
2K paints dry to a gloss and used a lot on lorries. I had a s3 i painted in the past in this type of paint gloss black. It is less work to use but be warned if you intend off roading and scratch it, it is very hard to remove the scratches and a respray is the only real way to fix.
This time I used base coat clear coat so the paint will last longer and look better. Once you apply the primer you then apply the base coat which really thin. The paint itself is thinned 1 to1. You give it a couple coats of the base colour. It dries fairly fast and there is no need to sand it.
Once the colour is down and set, normally within about an hour or two I then clear coat. If you leave for longer than 24 hours you have to respray the base coat again.
Overall its harder work (and sh!t loads more expensive) with base coat clear coat but the finish is worth it and any imperfections you make in the clear coat can normally be fixed with some elbow grease.
In my opinion and experience i would avoid using black on a series or defender . The way the panels are designed every dent will stick out like dogs balls and you might be disappointed with what shows up. My favorite colour is the dark metalic green used on the late model defenders but even that would be dark enough to show the dents off. I suggest having a good think about colours before you spray and work out how you are going to be using your land rover.
Here is an image of my first car i ever owned. I sprayed it in gloss black and found out why you don't spray old land rovers gloss black.
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