Ok, winter break over and back to it
I'm happy with the first coat of paint. its survived the winter nicely in the unit and the colour has darkened slightly with drying so its not quite in your face red now, which I prefer. No cracks but plenty of pin holes to fill, mainly on the roof and wings where i did so much work. Second and final coat planned for end of March so lots of wet flatting with 600 grit now
I did notice last year though that there were some deep cracks in the fibreglass around the rear offside wheelarch which when painted are very evident. These needed grinding out and sorting. Just in the process of doing this. Didn't want to do it really but its best to do it now than regret it later.
While the rear window is out I'm taking the opportunity to build a fibreglass rear shelf panel which I will upholster. I just need a simple structure from the fibreglass so nothing complicated. I've covered the soundproofing matting with very low tact masking tape (finally found a use for the useless stuff). This gives me a good release from the matting.
I've then covered that in packaging tape as fibreglass doesnt stick to that very well.
Then ive given that a good covering of mould release wax. The packaging tape takes the wax really well and between them both make releasing the fibreglass panel relatively easy.
Fibreglass laid this morning and will now leave for a couple of days to harden before removing and strengthing in places and snoothing over for a thin layet of foam and covering. Ive started working on the inner skin too so i have something to upholster against on the rear quarters. It looks messier than it actually is. The lighting is not doing me any favours in the picture
Good to be back at it and welcoming the evenings getting lighter!! I hope everyone else is enjoying their builds/ cars
