CB, that looks awesome.
How did you prep the more difficult areas (differentials, frame, etc.)?
It was in good shape when I got it, only some surface rust. I used a cup brush on an angle grinder (with eye protection, ear protection, and a breather mask, of course
) to knock all the rust off what I could get to. I would then pressure wash it off to get it clean enough to apply Rustoleum rust converter spray cans. I used about 10 of the cans across the whole truck. The rust converter paint made it look terrible. I spent about 3 days cleaning it all up before painting it.
Some of the nooks and crannies were hard to paint and are still not perfect. While painting a truck the opposite color (tan to green) is nice for the contrast it provides while painting, it means that places where you missed painting or places where the paint soaked in are far more noticeable than if you were painting green on green or tan on tan. There were quite a few places where I'd paint it, then come back later and it would look like I almost hadn't even touched it with paint. CARC seems to be almost absorbent.
I took all the wheels off and painted the wheels and hubs as well, although I don't have any photos of that. The mirror brackets probably gave me the most headache.
I used almost two gallons of green paint, probably a 1/4 gallon of brown, and a gallon of black. I painted the whole thing green, then added the brown and black splotches by eyeballing it on the paint by numbers sheets in the painting TM. I thinned the paint with xylene. Rapco's spray cans are a perfect match to the gallon cans if you thin it with xylene. A few days later, I added all the stencils. I edited the Gadsden Flag snake stencil from one I found online. A buddy of mine is in the 253rd Engineer Battalion, so I did the truck up in those markings after going and looking at their M916A2s.
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