Thanks for the kind words, all.
In reply to some of the comments and questions:
I've painted a few cars before, but this is by far the biggest and most complex job I've done, because:
- The shell's never seen paint before, so doing all areas.
- 3 colours, which adds a major headache. As well as masking carefully between colours, and trying to avoid a big step at the join, you end up having to flat each colour back before you add the next, to avoid painting on top of orange peel. In addition, you need to leave a few days between different colours, to let the paint harden enough to stay on the car when you peel off the masking tape for the next colour.
- Fibreglass - I've been using flex agent in the 2k products, and adhesion promoter on the bare shell. It's more to remember. Time will tell if I've got it right or not!
There's an insulated area with stud walls at the back of the barn, intended as a paint booth for little jobs, which helps keep the heat in, but the trusty propane space heater is essential in the cold weather we've had. I'm also using fast hardener, and used 'Rocket' in the primer to speed that up.
No doubt I'll scratch it when I'm building it up - already discovered that one of the doors is cracked in the window frame area, so dug into that and repaired it yesterday and today - fibreglass filler and fibreglass tissue mat / epoxy resin on top.
