interior dash and door panel mod

[OMFG nick]

decided i was going to go ahead and start doing my door and dash paint mod.
was thinking since the paint on the plastic door panel pieces was already chipping off, that i needed to do something a little different. I went out and bought primer, a can of truck/van duplicolor ford shadow metallic grey color match paint, and a duplicolor clear coat (all purchased at my local autozone)

so i dissasembled the door pieces (the part with the handle) sanded it down really good. started at a 60 and worked my way up to a 1500 grit. primered it. then repeated the sanding process. after that was done. i layed a few coats of the shadow grey duplicolor. and let sit for an hour or so. after that i layed it on a second time. after that dried. i went ahead and clear top coated it.

i took pictures along the way of the whole process. I left my camera in the truck so i cant upload them and will have to wait until tomorrow. Has anyone else performed this procedure? any pictures of how it turned out?

 

[OMFG nick]

alright so finally got around to getting the camera back out to upload the pictures. Let me know what you guys think. the whole point of this was to color match to the truck.

 

[98whitewood]

Looks great. I though about doing this but wasn't sure how well it would hold up.

 

[OMFG nick]

well to my knowledge, if you only just spray on the color coat, then it wont last nearly as long. it will just chip and scartch really easily. So i went all out. sanded,primed,sanded,primed,base coated x2, and then put on a clear coat for protection. so we'll see how well it holds up. ill post more pictures when i get the whole interior done. that was more of a tester.