I am very comfortable with body work; I am painting my entire truck myself. Granted sometimes I do not take the most direct road to completing specific tasks, I get them completed and my projects look good. I recently purchased a brand new Mar-k bed, I told myself when my cab is painted I would make painting and mounting the bed my summer time project. The cab is painted “minus some much needed wet sanding and buffing” but it’s painted, time for the bed. So far the bed is in primer, today I took all the panels out of their boxes for a dry fit (minus the wood of course that’s getting purchased this afternoon). I immediately noticed it is nearly impossible to assemble the bed without slightly scratching the panels, which concerns me. This leads me to the point of this thread, anyone here paint their own bed? What was the process? Part by part? As a whole? I originally thought I would paint it part by part and then assemble the bed when every panel is painted; today I realized maybe that’s a bad idea. Maybe I want to pant the panels with single stage paint where they touch, assemble the bed, then paint the entire bed once assemble as a whole. When I say assembled I mean the four main parts, front bed panel, rear cross sill, and bedsides. Any thoughts?
