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[GreaseMonkey]

One of my favourite projects at the moment!! Keep it up

[1984mini25]

Got round to welding the door skin on in the top corners and alos built up and ground back some welds to help make it fit a bit better with the top of the a panel and rear quarter, just need to drill and weld in the nuts for the wing mirror to fix to now.

[1984mini25]

Some picks of the door welding, the front doesn’t look too bad (still needs cleaning up with the grinder) but the back looks like it will need more work.




And now I’ve been playing around with the door, it appears the rear edge of the a panel isn’t inline, but nothing the old G-clamp and metal pole shouldn’t be able to sort.




Some of the front in it's first proper coat of green (yes i know the front is a little high lol)





And before I go welding on number plate brackets I need to decide what type of plate I want to run ???




And i'm also now tempted to two tone it, with the roof and bonnet in a slighty darker green than the rest ???

[Retro_10s]

done any more? liking this muchos!

[1984mini25]

Only really weld in the other vent in the bonnet and try and get it to fit a little better, now on the look out for some retro looking mesh to put behind them (if that makes sence)

But as my fixing pates on the a panels have pulled the back of the wings out, I have now been left with quite a bit of a gap down each side of the bonnet.

Edited by 1984mini25, 20 June 2010 - 09:16 PM.

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

It looks brilliant mate

[1984mini25]

Got round to getting the servo all finished up, painted and bolted back on.

[myredmini]

how are you painting the mini ?

mrm

[1984mini25]

That’s one question I’ve tried to dance around, as I kind of know what sort of reaction I’m going to get.

But…










Hear goes…










I’m painting via a roller and dulx gloss.

I’m still not saying what shade of green though, I did also try spraying it, but the white sprit did funny things to it, so I decided against that option.

Once I have it all in one colour and finally happy with how straight it looks, I’ll rub it down so it’s nice and smooth and give the whole car a few coats in one go to get the colour nice and even and then lacquer it as well.
As the first coat or two tends to be a bit thick to get the coverage, but after that it can be rolled on a lot thinner to build up the colour and finish.

Although if you look back a page or two you’ll see the finish I’m getting with minimal prep, been using these grey foam sanding blocks used wet, straight from the tin and just rolled on with no sanding or polishing after.

[luiji89]

very nice, keep it up

[1984mini25]

Not much more done other than just filling and sanding, trying to blend in the vents on the bonnet and finishing of the rest of the body to fill any dints and getting it looking straight.

I'd love to get the rest of the engine together, onto the gearbox and in the front frame. But the one item thats been stopping me has been out of stock via minispares for the past 6 or so weeks.

[1984mini25]

I’d found some mesh after a quick trip out to the local diy store. Normally more commonly found on the like of rabbit hutches, but oh well, it’s a heck of a lot cheaper at £2.50 for a panel than the tacky chav stuff in Halfords.

Mesh fiberglassed to back of bonnet, I’m hoping on making it look a bit neater, as it was rather messy.


Bonnet vents with mesh, yes I know that’s a lot of filler, I haven’t sanded it yet and with the weather being so warm I was more worried about getting it on the car before it set Lol.





I’ve also been working on a filler panel to close the wing to scuttle gap buy using an old seam trim. As when I put the extra trims on the wings it pushed the hole front end forwards, increasing the gaps, so hopefully once fully welded in and ground flush it should close it back up again.


And as I had some spare mesh left over, I’d though I’d see what it would look like with some behind the mk1 grill.

[miniallsort]

great updates

[1984mini25]

Won’t be any more for a few weeks as I’ve gone and busted my right hand, making any progress somewhat difficult.

[1984mini25]

Well I’ve had the stitches out for a few days now and it looks like my hand is now fixed.

So door gap all fixed and welded up, bar a bit of grinding if i'm being picky.




Also made a start on the inner hinge/ a panel blanking cover, same as what I’ve done on the drives side. But only got as far as taking it in place, so have yet to fully weld it