Jurassic Park Jeep Forum

I've decided to turn my 95 YJ Sahara into a JP Jeep. I already have the appropriate seats, body color, running boards, fenders etc....... I'll keep you all posted and any advice would be greatly appreciated. I just ordered the decals and stencils from Eichelman Designs. This should be a long, fun project.

I stripped all of my stickers off. My fender flares were pretty faded and cracked, so I had to sand and paint them. I went with a sand brown "2X Camo Paint" from Rustoleum. The Jeep is never going to be screen accurate, because I do some pretty extreme offroading with it. I also applied the door decals because I just couldn't wait. Next I will mask it off for stripes and numbers. I have a plan for the light bar, but that will be in the future at some point.

O.K., the last couple of nights after work I worked my masking tape magic and applied the front and rear stripe as well as stenciling in the number. I've only accomplished this on the drivers side. I have not started on the windshield frame yet, as that will be considerably more work. I decided to use Plastidip, which I'm sure many of you will say is a lazy, easy way out...... But I think it came out pretty cool. It wouldn't stand up to close scrutiny, but again I beat the shit out of this thing on the trail, so it's all good........ Next is the drivers side, and then I'll think about the light bar and possibly Plastidipping the wheels.

You'll be surprised at how well the plastidip holds up. When I put mine on I was thinking a year at most.. I'm almost 2 years now, and its still doing pretty good. I still want to paint, but so far it just isn't in the cards to do so.

Welcome to the forum, I'm in Santa Monica currently building up a TJ JP27

EdynB wrote:Welcome to the forum, I'm in Santa Monica currently building up a TJ JP27

Thanx for the welcome. I'd love to see pics of your progress.

COBrian wrote:You'll be surprised at how well the plastidip holds up. When I put mine on I was thinking a year at most.. I'm almost 2 years now, and its still doing pretty good. I still want to paint, but so far it just isn't in the cards to do so.

COBrian, did you find it difficult to remove your masking work after spraying the Plastidip?........ I had to go back over all of the lines with a razor because the Plastidip wanted to peel with the paint.......tedious work. I would love to see pics of your jeep with the Plastidip.

Here is my build thread viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2553
Adding as I go along

EdynB wrote:Here is my build thread viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2553
Adding as I go along

Looking good so far...... Thanx for the link.

wesleyb250 wrote:

COBrian wrote:You'll be surprised at how well the plastidip holds up. When I put mine on I was thinking a year at most.. I'm almost 2 years now, and its still doing pretty good. I still want to paint, but so far it just isn't in the cards to do so.

COBrian, did you find it difficult to remove your masking work after spraying the Plastidip?........ I had to go back over all of the lines with a razor because the Plastidip wanted to peel with the paint.......tedious work. I would love to see pics of your jeep with the Plastidip.

mostly I worked really fast, spray and immediately pull off tape lines, messy as of course the plastidip is still very wet, but being wet made pulling the tape have no issues. I couldn't work fast enough on the number stencils I did and did have a few issues on them. Those I did use an exacto to help.. very carefully and lightly to not scratch the paint.