To faux-tina or not to faux-tina...

[Improbcat]

I've been doing a ton of body work on my truck lately, and it has reminded me just how much I hate body work. Welding & grinding is fine, but once I get the filler, and high-build primer and the endless blocking & sanding it hurts my hands & arms and is just generally miserable. On top of it, I do not have an "eye" for it, so even after a ton of work it still doesn't look very straight.

Add to that the fact that I don't have the equipment or skill to paint the truck well, nor the money to pay someone else to do it and I'm not sure what all that miserable bodywork is working towards.

If I do get it all straight and painted, then I fear I will either be too afraid to use it as a truck for fear of damaging the paint, or scratch or dent it using it as a truck like I regularly do. Also with a garage as tight as mine is, eventually I'll scrape the side of the tool box, or whack something into the door...

To that end, I've been thinking of doing a subtle faux-tina paint job like 63c10step did in the fauxtina thread.



mine would be a dark hunter green, but the basic idea would be the same, sanded down till it is flat, and with a bit of the primer showing through here & there.

Seems like the best of most worlds. Paint job that is far more forgiving of marginal bodywork, less money & time in the paint itself, a nice "careworn" look, and something I wouldn't be terrified of messing up.

Thoughts?

Oh, and saving the paint job on the truck is out, as the cab and most of the front sheetmetal is being replaced, and the bed needs work in a ton of spots.