Paint ideas

I worked with a driver that had a similar problem. He fixed it the cheap way, but it looked really good from the ground.
He sanded the part he wanted to paint, just to rough it up, then feathered the edges so they would be smooth, then painted it black with a paint brush. He didn't sand all the paint off, just prepared it to hold a new coat of paint and feathered the edges just to have a smooth finish.
Many may laugh about me posting this, but it worked and looked good from the ground and he got off real cheap.
A black top and the rest of the truck blue would look ok.

 

Black or silver would probably look pretty sharp up there.

 

i watch some of those car restoration shows on the Velocity channel. on Fantom Works, they rebuilt an old IH 4x4 for a vet...the roof of the hard top, was painted with the same type of material as the bed liner...very durable, comes in colors, they painted his white...looked awesome....

 

Both colors look good together; blue/black & blue/silver.

 

Two things -

Imron was very expensive then so someone had money.

I think it is a first generation dupont epoxy paint and has to be sprayed on a properly prep'd surface which brings me up to the second thing, it looks like they didn't properly prep the surface in that area (I had a car that was sprayed in Imron and the hood peeled off to the metal surface like that), so I would strip it all off, prep it right, then spray it with a good single stage paint.

 

You said you are going to paint the whole truck later.
I would prep the surface for painting. Get a rattle can that is close in color.
I use- International Gloss Blue- Ace brand paint on my blue Freightliner for those dings and Gawd dangs.
Or go with black on top. I think that would look, ok, well at least it would be better than what you have and cheap.
Good luck and show us a picture when you finish. Maybe you will give me a good idea.

 

Strip paint down to bare aluminum and polish the top. With black painting gonna be too hot inside in summer.

 

There's a guy in our town who did the entire exterior of his F250 in a custom red Rhino liner. It sounds crazy, but truck looks good and you can't tear it up. He takes it out to Terlingua and Mexuco and does four wheel drive stuff in it and never worries about scrapes, scratches etc.