Flame,
Great idea. My original thought was to remove as much of the paint as possible from the outside (hopefully all...) and then just clean/brighten with some type of aluminum brightener like the AC coil cleaner or similar aluminum pontoon cleaner, then powerwash and leave as is. My idea was even a dull aluminum finish would be fine. I worried that like you said without proper surface prep, primer, sealer it would just flake again.
I thought since it sits outside in the woods that no paint would be better than half painted like it is now.
But you have a good idea, if I just used rattle can some bedliner or undercoating that would be pretty much once and done too. Do they make rattle can bedliner or undercoating in a color outside of black? Say brown, grey, dark green etc?
I assume the bed coating would still need a etching primer first (rattle can too?)
