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General Forums => The Mess Hall => Topic started by: Sine Deviance on November 06, 2009, 08:05:23 PM
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Me too. But still, I was curious to see what it would look like if I ever changed the color. So I fired up GIMP and here's a few I came up with. Click the thumbnails to see the full-size images.
Here's my Jeep as it sits now:
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd275/darkusedius/Jeep/Out%20of%20Body%20Shop/th_DSCN2062.jpg) (http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd275/darkusedius/Jeep/Out%20of%20Body%20Shop/DSCN2062.jpg)
And if I painted it blue:
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd275/darkusedius/Jeep/Colors/th_jeepinblue.jpg) (http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd275/darkusedius/Jeep/Colors/jeepinblue.jpg)
Or orange:
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd275/darkusedius/Jeep/Colors/th_jeepinorange.jpg) (http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd275/darkusedius/Jeep/Colors/jeepinorange.jpg)
Or blood red:
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd275/darkusedius/Jeep/Colors/th_jeepinred.jpg) (http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd275/darkusedius/Jeep/Colors/jeepinred.jpg)
Which one do you guys like best? My favorite color is blue so it's an obvious choice for me. But I think the red looks good too.
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that red comes up pretty nice on my screen, not sure if you print it and try to match the color but that's my fav
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Red YJ's are cursed... :nono:
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Red YJ's are cursed... :nono:
Blasphemy!
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What about black?
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So I fired up GIMP
GIMP???
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What about black?
Sure:
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd275/darkusedius/Jeep/Colors/th_jeepinblack.jpg) (http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd275/darkusedius/Jeep/Colors/jeepinblack.jpg)
I'm not really feeling the black to be honest...
GIMP???
GNU Image Manipulation Program. It's like an open-source Photoshop (meaning fully free.) It lacks some of the 'very advanced' Photoshop features but you can do amazing things with it.
http://www.gimp.org/ <-- For UNIX-based operating systems, like Linux (what I use.)
http://www.gimp.org/windows/ <-- GIMP for Windows systems.
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Blasphemy!
:roflol: Well maybe not yours it's half CJ with a bit of TJ tossed in. :smokes:
White is where it's at.
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Dude, Im loving the black :thumbsup:
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GIMP???
open source drawing program like paint or photoshop.
Personally, I like the original color. Although if I was going to repaint my Jeep it would be the same color but with a clear coat.
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Personally, I like the original color. Although if I was going to repaint my Jeep it would be the same color but with a clear coat.
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Ditto
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Roll paint it. Use two part poly with a lot of paint manufacturer's special thinner and it'll lay nice and flat. Takes branch scratches well, too.
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White looks the best on Jeeps with all black accessories!
If I ever paint mine it will be ARMY flat green, that looks good with black accessories to.
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Roll paint it. Use two part poly with a lot of paint manufacturer's special thinner and it'll lay nice and flat. Takes branch scratches well, too.
that's funny :roflol:
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Blasphemy!
LMAO I knew you'd chime in on that comment
And I'd have to agree with smashcoast that white Jeeps look the best :thumbsup: And black accy's look great on them as well. But I'd take my polished wheels over black steelies on a white Jeep any day :twofingers:
I think if I were to get ANY other color Jeep at this point in time, it'd be a newer TJ in Electric Lime Green. I freakin' LOVE that color... There's a lady in town with a 4" Teraflex LA lift and 33's on MT Classic Locks. OMFG it looks sexy :hump:
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that's funny :roflol:
Why is it funny?
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that's funny :roflol:
I was being serious :puzzled: Or are you putting us on? :lol:
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White jeeps rule!
Dave :ass:
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I was being serious :puzzled: Or are you putting us on? :lol:
i thought you're joking
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This site has been around for awhile: http://rollyourcar.com/gallery.aspx
I've got photos around of a roll job I did on mine. Of course, I was just rolling poly black over OEM black.
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This site has been around for awhile: http://rollyourcar.com/gallery.aspx
I've got photos around of a roll job I did on mine. Of course, I was just rolling poly black over OEM black.
those look good. I thought you're making a joke as there were some emails around with funny pics and in one of them there was a dude roll-painting his car.
seems that most of them put about 4 coats and then wet sanded to 800 + the polishing buffer at the end but they seemed to get them painted from primer and turned out surprisingly good. Just wondering if the whole process is not overkill but it definitely saves your lungs from all the vapors not to mention everything else around being covered in paint.
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In my case, I just didn't want to drop $1500-$2000+ for a polyurethane job that I was just going to bash up. And I didn't have a place to spray it (though, in hindsight, I should say I later came across a place in the area where I could have a booth for about $250 a day [yeah, pretty steep around here]). So, it turned out to be a low buck way to apply high quality paint; certainly not the finish quality of a good spray job, but not bad.
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Do a cheap Earl Schieb paint job.
My buddy painted his toyota truck 3 years ago and it still looks good. He paid $450 with paint and body work.
I figure if your offroading alot and getting alot of body damage and scratches a cheap paint job should do even if it last 5yrs for $300-400 that's not bad.
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+1
You can't buy the materials yourself for what they charge, and there is nothing wrong with their materials.
Just do all the prep yourself (No primer!) take off anything you don't want painted.
Try and get a friday afternoon appt and see if you can pay a few bucks extra to leave it in the booth overnight.
Dave
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I've seen good and bad with Earl Scheib jobs. I think success with them depends on who's running the franchise location and so forth. But even with them, if you order polyurethane, they are going to clock you on the high end of their price list.
I was looking to get a "$100 shine on a $10 pair of shoes" as the saying goes :lol: So I did poly.
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WTF is Earl Scheib? Is that like Maaco or something?
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WTF is Earl Scheib? Is that like Maaco or something?
:nod:
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wow, those do look good!! :naughty:
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No Macco is like Earl Scheib!
I was thinking of getting mine painted like the old Buccaneers colors!