Paint

The commonly available Krylon High Heat 1618 is exact match to the john deere semi gloss "BLITZ"

You can locate Krylon about anywhere. Or just yes the deere paint "BLITZ" for all your black paint neds. I have used both and find I'd rather buy Krylon at Walmart over the $ of deere blitz.

I painted one of my 212 with the TSC green and yellow. I thought it was fine. I also thought the green was more of that OLD shade used on the two cylinder tractors etc. Not a problem for me, but others will want the exact shade in which you'd want to use the deere paint.

A friend took his tractor to a BODY SHOP. They would NOT use the deere paint like he wanted and it is blue. Seriously . BLUE. if you look at it out in the driveway it looks perfect. But park it next to another of his tractors and the green is blue. They would only use their Martin Senour paint and they mixed it themselves.

If you only have one tractor, paint it any shade you want. I Have a 212 with three different shades of green. Who cares. It is mine and I like it. The snow don't care either; it gets blown over into my neighbors lawn regardless............

Curtis, you may want to do a search using "TSC paint" as the search option and put is 600 days for how far back to search. There is some discussion about the Majic brand and others. I think the jury is still out on color match for that brand.
JD seldom used primer under their factory paint jobs, but they were working with brand new metal. No dings or rust pits to worry about. I prefer to get primer on anything that's been sand blasted the same day it comes back from the blaster. I have had surface rust show on the trip home.

I you are new to JD paint colors, there were two different shades of the green paint and as far as I know, only one standard yellow. "Classic" JD green was used on the two cylinder farm tractors and equipment, and I wouldn't rule out some updates along the line for that color. "AG&CE" has been the factory green for the L&G equipment and later farm equipment. Your choice.

I think most of us here like the JD "Blitz Black" as a match for L&G black parts.

If you use something other than the JD branded paint, how about letting us know later what you used, if you are satisfied with color matches, and eventually what you find on durability.

tommyhawk

I decided it would be best, (and only cost about $10 more) to just buy my paint at the dealer. They're luckily just about 7 minutes up the street. Now I have a new problem... I borrowed a sandblaster from a buddy at work, it's a 50lb pressure pot from TSC. I can NOT get it to work right. The best I had it working i sandblasted ONE rear wheel, it used 50lbs of sand. It's clean, it's dry, i have an air dryer, the sand was new and dry. I tore all the fittings apart and noticed the manifold at the bottom where the sand and air mix, the outlet to the big sand hose was a little smaller than the rest, so i drilled it out to match (ported it) so it flows good. It worked better, but to get a flow of sand the bottom valve had to be open so far I used 50lbs in a few minutes. Im using black beauty sand from TSC, the finest they sell. I also installed a better drain on my compressor (60 gal kobalt from Lowes) so i can leave it a tiny tiny bit cracked while blasting to keep any excess water in the tank from building up. I'm about to give up and just clean it and slap paint on it. Which would be terrible since i planned on this tractor looking new, but i've wasted about 4 days messing with a sand blaster and building a plastic walled blasting room in my garage... Frustrating.