My M37 Restoration Thread

[Bruce]

Everyone Wants 2 See It

J.S.

Is the paint you ended up with a flat finish or a semi gloss?
I ask this because I did the same as you running around trying to find OD paint.
I ended up by accident at Wal-Mart and spotted a can of paint that was just right for me . It is a zero reflectivity or ultra flat od paint . The best part was it was only $14.00 a gallon. If you find your self in a Wal-mart ask to see a color chip of CAFE NOIR. DUTCH BOY OUTSIDE PAINT FOR METAL. Dont ask me why they call it CAFE NOIR. As far as my French goes it means black coffee.
I cant post any photos here but I would be more than glad to send you via email a photp of my M37 so you can see what it looks like.

Try the link or send it to JStinson or my self? Another option is always a good thing. I went w/Gilespie as It was 37$ by picking it up myself. 14$ a gallon sounds really good!

[Gordon Maney]

If you are not a subscriber or premium user, you can link to photos at a remote host, such as is the requirement at other forums. You need a photo hosting account such as Photobucket or Smugmug, that sort of thing.

[JStinson]

J.S.

Is the paint you ended up with a flat finish or a semi gloss?
I ask this because I did the same as you running around trying to find OD paint.
I ended up by accident at Wal-Mart and spotted a can of paint that was just right for me . It is a zero reflectivity or ultra flat od paint . The best part was it was only $14.00 a gallon. If you find your self in a Wal-mart ask to see a color chip of CAFE NOIR. DUTCH BOY OUTSIDE PAINT FOR METAL. Dont ask me why they call it CAFE NOIR. As far as my French goes it means black coffee.
I cant post any photos here but I would be more than glad to send you via email a photp of my M37 so you can see what it looks like.

It's a satin. My email is jwes478@hotmail.com. I'd love to see your truck.

[Kaiser2boy]

J.S.

Is the paint you ended up with a flat finish or a semi gloss?
I ask this because I did the same as you running around trying to find OD paint.
I ended up by accident at Wal-Mart and spotted a can of paint that was just right for me . It is a zero reflectivity or ultra flat od paint . The best part was it was only $14.00 a gallon. If you find your self in a Wal-mart ask to see a color chip of CAFE NOIR. DUTCH BOY OUTSIDE PAINT FOR METAL. Dont ask me why they call it CAFE NOIR. As far as my French goes it means black coffee.
I cant post any photos here but I would be more than glad to send you via email a photp of my M37 so you can see what it looks like.

[JStinson]

Man I am glad I bought the Gillepsie paint when I did at the Gilbert show! $37 a gallon. I didn't realize they get so much after the shipping?

Yessir, you did well. Rapco charges $35 for a gallon of paint. Then you add $23 for haz-mat. Then they add $2 for some unknown random extra shipping charge. THEN you add $14.99 to get it to my house. Blamo, $74.99 a gallon.

Absurd.

[jrodjared]

Man I am glad I bought the Gillepsie paint when I did at the Gilbert show! $37 a gallon. I didn't realize they get so much after the shipping?

[JStinson]

Update/Paint Adventures

I've been wrestling with my paint dilemma. What paint dilemma? Well, I'm glad you asked.

I bought 3 gallons of Majic brand OD green. It was a joke. The only thing OD about it was the label. So, I mixed a few different darker shades of the OD and finally found one I thought I liked. I sprayed it on and found I hated it. So I tried a darker shade. Hated it.

So, today I took a piece of the NOS heater kit to use as a paint sample and went to Home Depot. They couldn't do it with the paint I wanted. So I tried O'Reilly's. That particular store couldn't do it either.

Then I went to Sherwin Williams. He had the right type enamel paint and managed to mix a batch that matches to about 95%. It was quite impressive.

It cost 40 bucks. The next cheapest option was Rapco's correct Gillespie paint, which would have cost about 75 bucks a gallon after haz mat and shipping.

Really glad I found a good paint source. Will try to spray some on tomorrow and see what it looks like.

[scrapdaddy]

Just catching up, and I have to say, you're doing a great job. Keep it up!

[Gordon Maney]

You here all week?

Maybe.

my agenda

[JStinson]

When making it darker, I would use black, not brown.....

You here all week?

[Gordon Maney]

As I sit here watching tv, I realize that I did NOT mix a darker shade of paint than what I was spraying yesterday. I made a mistake when I mixed it this morning. Crap.

I'll try it again tomorrow...

When making it darker, I would use black, not brown.....

[JStinson]

I mixed some darker paint and went to work on the cab.

As I sit here watching tv, I realize that I did NOT mix a darker shade of paint than what I was spraying yesterday. I made a mistake when I mixed it this morning. Crap.

I'll try it again tomorrow...

[JStinson]

You had better record your paint recipe so you can match it in the future when you need to.

Oh yeah, I wrote it down. Losing the recipe would be a real disappointment.

[Gordon Maney]

You had better record your paint recipe so you can match it in the future when you need to.

[JStinson]

First coat on the bottom: