My Poor Wee Mini Sky
#646
Posted 07 April 2012 - 06:12 AM
#647
Posted 07 April 2012 - 09:10 AM
It's all looking great! Well done for sticking at it!
I hope you enjoy your break!
Carlos
#648
Posted 24 April 2012 - 09:26 PM
minimuk thanks for the good wishes and for your appreciation of my lovely green!
Brams96 thanks for your advice. I am certain its not the paint's fault but my lack of research. You seem to be doing that and you will make a grand job.
madaboutminis you are so right - as a Chemistry teacher I thought I knew about rust - how wrong!!
Carlos welcome back. Hope you had a great time and I hope you have a blessed marriage. I congratulated you already on your own page but no harm doing so again!
I had to start again - I didn't want to.
I got the floor painted
But have had a horrible paint reaction at the window posts - both sides! I will have to take back to metal.
Did my usual rough job seam sealing. Again looking at jobs like Neil's it makes me so ashamed. But no one will see it and it will be covered in green!
And I painted the boot
That's last week little offering.
This week
I tackled the horrible little welds for the lip at the back of the bonnet drip channels (or whatever they are called). I never made the lip long enough.
A lot of awkward grinding
And the left side
And I ground all the plug welds
So I can etch prime, seal, etch again and green paint!!
I have just a little welding left on the bonnet where I cut through the reinforcing plates!! Thanks Graham's post for drawing attention to this area.
Pottering along
Hugh
(PS sorry I haven't commented on other posts for a while - I'll try and catch up with you all)
Edited by hughJ, 24 April 2012 - 09:28 PM.
#649
Posted 24 April 2012 - 09:32 PM
The art of finishing,... your work looks good, seam sealing like Neil does is very hard to copy, but then you do need a lot of masking tape on all the areas first,....
It is coming toghether nicely
#650
Posted 24 April 2012 - 10:25 PM
You're going to finish before me by the look of it!
#651
Posted 25 April 2012 - 03:56 AM
Chris
#652
Posted 25 April 2012 - 11:40 AM
#653
Posted 25 April 2012 - 12:48 PM
#654
Posted 25 April 2012 - 06:19 PM
what a crappy week, no mini fun, I had to talk to the wife . No progress for me but you are streaking on. The inside and boot look fantastic, are they rollered or sprayed?? What has caused the reaction, and what has happened, bubbled?? as a bit hard to see on the pic. Either way great progress, very jealous. I do now have some help in the form of Matthew who is painting the subframe as I type !!
I have about a days welding to go, little jobs such as those drip lips you have just done, then some grinding and will try some paint soon !!
Graham
Edited by grahama, 25 April 2012 - 06:25 PM.
#655
Posted 25 April 2012 - 06:23 PM
#656
Posted 28 April 2012 - 09:03 PM
This is all I have to show - a coat of etch primer over the sealant, followed by three coats of Stone Chip Shield, then etch primer and finally a couple of coats of Hard Hat emerald green RAL6001! Didn't seem to react and some of it is over Combicolor. Who knows the mysteries of paint!
It needs a bit of touching up yet - I can see at last in the flash photo. It was pretty dark under the wings and I have stood on my inspection lamp to it's detriment! I'm embarrassed to put this up but I've not done absolutely nothing!
Shamefully inching along
Hugh
Edited by hughJ, 28 April 2012 - 09:03 PM.
#657
Posted 28 April 2012 - 09:25 PM
#658
Posted 29 April 2012 - 05:21 AM
#659
Posted 29 April 2012 - 11:00 AM
#660
Posted 29 April 2012 - 12:41 PM
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