Paint and Body Tech - Airbrushing With Attitude

On the hood, Jeff continued the graphic treatment with similar but scaled down versions of the recurring themes.

Cutting no corners, Jeff even painted inside the cab and the doorjambs.

Looking closely at the doorjambs, you can see even more sinister skulls.

After applying the shadowing and highlights, the side of the truck was getting close to being finished.

Ensuring the graphics looked seamless, Jeff even laid down on his back to airbrush the bed. Graphics wrapped around the bed, as well.

Check out the Street Scene Equipment roll pan. Jeff airbrushed hands grabbing onto the back.

Horned demons were airbrushed onto the tailgate.

The bed features a conglomeration of all the graphics applied to the truck. It was now time to apply the RM Carizzma CZZ-400 Candy Apple Red to the exposed artwork.

After umasking the area, Dave's truck was two-toned with cool-looking graphics and evil airbrushing. Jeff then applied two coats of DC-5300 Clear. Once it was dry, he rescuffed the body with 3M Hookit 800-grit sandpaper.

Fresh out of the paint booth, the truck looked awesome.

That high-gloss shine from the clear is a good indication that Jeff did the work properly.

With the truck out of the booth, Jeff could focus on pinstriping all of those graphics.

Using House of Kolors striping enamels, Jeff striped the yellow graphic with U-04 Orange in a jagged pattern, the white and red colors were split up using a mixture of U-09 Light Blue and U-02 White, and then the charcoal graphic was outlined in U-01 Black. He then wrapped up the detail work by adding a dropshadow under each of the graphics to give it a 3D look. Jeff was finished after three more coats of DC-5300 Clear were sprayed, then the truck was wet-sanded with 1,500-grit sandpaper, and buffed to a show-truck shine.

As Truckin' Senior Tech Editor Bob Ryder says, "A picture is worth a thousand words."