XJ?2010

Alright first off no laughing at my shotty Photoshop skills...

Due to my current white paint taking a dump and michigan salt forcing me to do some much needed body work. Im going to be doing a Rattle Can paint job. (The right way with prep ect. ect.)

I've decided I want some form of flat finish. Some OD green and Khaki jeeps have caught my eye so i tried my best to replicate it on mine.

Chime in if you think another color would look better.

OD Green



Tan



Sorry for the Screen shots it was the only way it would upload.

craig gardner

I'm feeling the tan a lil more

craig gardner

I Photoshop a jeep just yesterday lol

craig gardner

Tank

J308

Hmm, I don't feel your shop skills are a good representation for what your Jeep will look like. heh. It's easier just to search OD and flat tan Jeeps and check out the finishes.

Personally, I think the tan looks better than FLAT green, so if you are going flat, I'd say tan.

Really, I'd pick another color, because the flat tan has already been done, and done EXTREMELY well on this forum:


Why not flat white, stormtrooper style? Then you wouldn't have to worry about under the hood.

XJ?2010

Well I have to undercoat everything anyways (10 years of michigan winters has taken its toll) trying to take advantage of the dry west while im here. I know my photoshop skills blow hardcore

I agree both colors have been done many times before. I dont like white I have it now and its bland to me. However I am open to other colors.

94XjSport94

I like the tan maybe something darker though. The pic is one down the road from me that i really like. I think its a closer factory color though but either way is cool the way black stuff is so contrast to it.

Also look at N20's jeep and build thread, its AWESOME.

J308

Tan has surely been done less than OD I'd think, and the white that remains in hard to paint areas will be closer to tan, if that matters to you.

IMO, you have to be careful with flat paint. You might end up with:
Black doesn't get dark enough, ends up looking like primer.
Grey/silver looks like primer.
Red ends up looking pink.
Blue can sometimes not be the color you intended.

So from that standpoint, you at least know what you are getting with green and tan. Tan is winning 10-0 over green right now, so that says a lot about how overdone green is. Also of note is that "Other" has 0 votes, which speaks to the popularity of the tan...

If I were doing it and those were my choices, I'd go matte tan with factory-style decals in whatever accent color I was using. Good luck!