Got the paint on my M813! Also got it registered!

[Truckoholic]

Well, just got done painting my M813A1, so I had to take some pictures to share. There are still a couple pieces missing, and it's not perfect, but it sure is one heck of an improvement over what it was when I got it!!

Also I got my SF97 in the mail this morning, so I was able to go to the DMV and got it registered as a vehicle of historical interest since I allready had all the other paperwork filled out and ready and put it on my insurance last week. The DMV lady was quite confused for a while, but she didn't have too much trouble doing it. Cost me just $342 altogether with use tax and everything. Will be much less per year of coarse now that the initial expense is out of the way.

Insurance is costing me $63 a month which I can definitely live with. State Farm would not insure it as a historical vehicle for some reason, but that's fine with me. And I don't intend to drive it more than should be a problem with it being registered as a historical vehicle.

It's going to be in atleast one parade in a couple weeks. Possibly another one I'm not sure about yet.

I put the bumper guides on there so I'd have something to attach my flag poles to. I'm gonna have the American flag where it belongs on the right front, and a US Navy, And Seabees flags on the left side.

Notice, I started out doing a three color camo job, but after I got the brown sprayed on the front fenders, I decided that was as far as I wanted to go with the brown. I was thinking of just doing away with the brown altogether, but then I started kind of liking it just like this. But don't want brown anywhere else.

Here's a before and after pic:

 

[mckeeranger]

It turned out great! That's a nice looking truck.
And now that it's legal, you can do some cruzin.

 

[Truckoholic]

It turned out great! That's a nice looking truck.
And now that it's legal, you can do some cruzin.

Thanks! Yeah, I've been dying to take it out driving other than just on the dirt roads around here. So tomorrow when I get home from work I will probably take it for a drive around town.

 

[greg burns]

Truckoholic:
Nice work on the paint job. Did you use Rapco, Aervoe, or some alternative? Did you use rattle cans or a sprayer?

 

[Truckoholic]

Truckoholic:
Nice work on the paint job. Did you use Rapco, Aervoe, or some alternative? Did you use rattle cans or a sprayer?

Rapco with a sprayer. Really went on nice. I used the Marine Forest Green because I liked the darker shade of green, and the special flat black, and the 383 brown. Ordered some Xylene from some other company online to thin it with for spraying. Sand blasting this dang thing took FOREVER!!! But I'm glad I did! It allowed me to find some bad rust through places that I wouldn't have found otherwise, and it made such a nice surface for painting getting rid of all the previous layers of paint. The only places I did not blast all of the old paint away was on the sides, and inside of the cargo bed.

 

[olewhiskey]

 

[camoyj7]

Looks Great. Where did you get the Seabee stencils?

 

[wikallen]

 

[augiedoggy]

Looks Fantastic!!

you may want to cut the grass there........gettin' a little tall !

 

[Truckoholic]

Looks Great. Where did you get the Seabee stencils?

Ha ha............... What an adventure THAT was!!! ha ha I got them from here. index

It's really awesome, because he sells you the entire kit for all of the numbers and lettering on the entire truck including the seabees paint masks. But.........the dang application tape on the back side of the paint masks, is so ridiculously strongly adhered to the paint mask, that when trying to apply the paint masks, it is darn near impossible to peel the application tape off without completely destroying the paint mask in the process! And the more complex the mask is, such as with the seabees insignias, the harder it is to not do any damage when peeling it away.

So if you look closely, you will see that I have one seabees insignia design which is the correct one on the passenger door, but because I destroyed the other paint mask on the drivers door, I had to use one of the seabees insignia paint masks that I got from here Custom Military Vehicle Stencils by Axholme Signs. Seabees Insignia

And then because of all the struggles I had getting the drivers door one right, I ended up having to spray some more green paint, so in the pictures you can see a bit of a color miss match. I'm really hoping that goes away as the paint dries more.

It's a good thing you can only see one side of the truck at a time, because the insignia's are actually quite different.

 

[Truckoholic]

Looks Fantastic!!

you may want to cut the grass there........gettin' a little tall !

Ha ha yeah. That is in our meadow where I never would have attempted to drive any of my other trucks!

 

[mckeeranger]

Looks Fantastic!!

you may want to cut the grass there........gettin' a little tall !

If you mow your lawn, and you find an MV............you might be an OD addict.

 

[Jump Start]

Great Job!!

 

[Ord22]

nice paint job!!! looks like a new truck.

 

[zout]

That really looks great - gives you an entire different feeling driving it now as well I bet.

 

[Scrounge41]

Really nice job on the paint. Well done!

 

[sigo]

Looks great. How much green paint did you use? Did you prime it before painting?

 

[scrapdaddy]

Man, that does look good! We need details.

 

[Truckoholic]

Looks great. How much green paint did you use? Did you prime it before painting?

Yeah I primed it before with grey Gillespie primer from Rapco. And used a little less than 1 and a half gallons of green.


Here's a couple more pics from today.



This evening I got my new hood latches put on, got the radiator screen put in, put my bridge plate back on, and got some flag poles most of the way built.