Anglia Progress

Thanks for the comments folks :)

More red gone antics gone on today and it's been a really long day. Time to tackle final paint on the flipfront. First I pulled it into the middle of the garage and sanded out the orange peel in the primer. I couldn't get it out completely because I'd sanded the fibreglass with paper that was too coarse and I risked going through to the blue gelcoat so I took the worst out and let the topcoat fill in the rest. 2K is really good at that. Where I was going to spray was dangerously close to my freshly sprayed doors so I covered them up with some poly sheet and turned the car around to keep the fresher panels away from my spray area:

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I then made myself a custom spray booth out the front:

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First coat went on nice and stripy, I was tempted to leave it at that because it actually looked really cool Work In Progress style:

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In between coats I boshed paint on the headlight trims and the rear panel:

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After about 4 coats they were looking supoib so I put them at the back of the garage where they wouldn't get any overspray:

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This is how the flipfront looks after 6 coats:

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I was tempted to go on but the sun was over the yard so any more wouldn't have gelled in time to get another coat on and would have taken ages to cure after that. The last two coats went on nice and wet and really flatted out so there's no bother there, I can always lay a load more on at a later date.

So that's it with the painting. The car has taken just 2.5 litres of paint and that's about 6 coats all over. It's buried everything underneath nicely and is now ready to flat and polish at some point. I'm going to leave it to very last so the paint has had plenty of time to cure and shrink back. This many coats sprayed in non-ideal conditions does have a habit of shrinking slightly, nowhere near as much as celly but it still does it. In the meantime it's REASSEMBLY TIME!!!
 
awesome going my friend, you're a very talented man and i would like to see more of your projects in the future :)
 
PLEASE stop all this red painting and get it painted yellow!! My old mans Anglia was yellow, and its the first car I ever remember going for a ride in, I must be talking 1969 or 1970 sort of era here. Get it yellow now please! :D
 
No pictures but it was a bit too cold to do anything this weekend :D

Got the doors hung on and the flipfront pinned back in place on the car so it's nearly in one piece again. Slashed a knuckle and couldn't work out where the sticky red paint was coming from that was all over me, then cut my thumb on a burr, again didn't really feel it and neither would stop bleeding so I called it quits for the day.

Damn blood is exactly the same colour as the car. Bonus is it doesn't show up but it's twice the panic. First is aaaaagh I've got paint all over the new paintwork!!! Then it's aaaaagh I've got toxic cancerous uncured 2K all over my hands!!! Then it's aaaaggghh I'm bleeding a lot!!!

The knuckle was an extreme dribbler, one of those ones that you don't feel because it's so cold but persists to bleed profusely in a place on your hand that's slightly out of view. Leaving blotches of liquid blood everywhere as you brush past it which you then pick up on your clothes and other fingers then can't work out where it's coming from because it's everywhere and all the same colour. I then did my thumb in on a sharp burr on a brand new stainless nut, another heavy bleeder from a small slash because it was cold, followed by a stab right down the end trying to pick the burr off. Then the thumb wouldn't stop bleeding and every time I picked something up or gripped anything I'd squeeze more blood out. It was like a Sweeny Todd barbershop scene I tell you :D
 
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