Need to give The Blazer a quick and dirty paintjob

[AJMBLAZER]

The Blazer's paint is typical of the late 80's/early 90's GM paint jobs. Peeling, fading paint and clear coat with primer, primer here and there, tiny spots of surface rust, and even bare metal in a few places.

I have a buddy back in Michigan who I can leave the truck with for a month or so and get it back with straight panels, new hinges, some new rubber, and paint better than the factory ever did. He's good. He bitches about the paint on his Scout but man, it's shecksy.

However time and funds are working against me this year and I don't think I'm going to be able to get it to him this year. Meanwhile I have the crappy stock paint in an environment that does get somewhat wintery and does have road salt during the winter. Not near as bad as Michigan but I definitely want to get cracking on this thing to protect the body.
I'd like to do a quick and dirty paint job. Thinking about spray paint. I've seen guys do camo and OD green paintjobs for relatively cheap and get decent results. Not expecting (or really needing) perfection, just protection for the body that doesn't scare every women away for miles.
The caveat is whatever I do I want it to not make my buddy's job harder (and more expensive for me) when I finally get it up to him.

Would spray bombing it fit my needs? Advice, thoughts, and tips?

 

[BBC]

i just rattle canned my k5. i used 11 cans of paint from walmart. cost about 30 bucks. turned out pretty good. i'm in phx tho, so don't have to deal with the elements like you. the roof was down to bare mtl. so i used some primer on there. other than that i just put a light sanding on the exist. white and sprayed some od green.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Thanks man, that came out nice. Do your jams at all?

The elements won't help anything but I think it'll be 2 years at most before I have it up north to my buddy. Right now if I can just check the bits of rust that exist and then get rid of or coat over the rest of the thin paint and peeling clearcoat I'll be ahead in the game.

Only problem is I'm not sure I want to go with a flat or camo color. My pickup is a CUCV with the NATO camo paint so yeah...I would like this one to at least not send the wimins running on sight.

 

[BBC]

didn't do the jambs yet. i'll get around to it sometime. the whole paint job sanding and spraying took about 6 hours.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Cool. Block sand or use a sander?

 

[BBC]

i used my dewalt orbital sander with 220 paper.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Cool. Thanks again.

 

[USSkoval]

If you seriously plan on later having nice paint sprayed on, don't put cheap on it now. It will make much more work when the time comes for nice paint. In the mean time, just do touch-up on areas of concern with the matching dupli-color stuff. If you keep after it every now and again, rust will not develop or get worse.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Touching it up would be problematic. Peeling/chipping paint and clearcoat all over, small rock dings everywhere, and a few bigger scratches. To call it a paint job is unfair to cheap MAACO paint jobs everywhere.