Ok so here is the engine bay & bonnet with colour couple more weekends & it will all in colour hopefully.

geeze thats a nice colour .. Looks good straight out of the gun..

mmmmmmmmmmmm..............Hot Orange!

Looking forward to the finished product.

Thanks for the positive feedback, clear over base does look good straight off the gun but looks a awesome after rubbing back a coat of clear with 1500 then buffing but the engine bay will get that.
Will start a projects thread in a week or so, hoping to have it ready the Street Machine Spectacular show in August but it looks a bridge to far at the moment but we will see !!.

Well the whole car is painted few little issues to sort as an area near the headlight decided to fry up but nothing that can't be fixed here is a couple of teaser shots.

NICE ... VERY NICE

Love your work Blown,

That straight Blackout looks the ducks nuts on the colour

Jonny I am glad you like it, I have attached another picture of the bonnet, I am looking forward to getting it in the sun & getting a few more pictures with a decent camera as the camera in my phone does not really do the colour justice as the colour really does pop.

Mind you it will be a few weeks before that happens as there is a ton of refitting ahead of us now.

Hey Fellas,

Thought i would share some pics of the bay now its done

I was asked by a family member on seeing the results how many coats?

Well we had 3 of epoxy cut back at 60

then 120 2k, then 220 2k , then 320/400 2k , ( all dry )

then 600 2k (wet)

then 3 base silver fox , then 1000 fixing some glitches , then 1 1/2 base

then 3 1/2 coats clear

I think they stopped listening after the first line a simple

oh around 13 / 15 coats would have been about right [88]


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actually , these pics show untrue colour - and some bad patches which are not there - in as i have a halogen beeming above( makes everything gold highlight in pic) combined with fluro

there is alot going on with reflection also ( read imo they look below average ),

I will try to get a decent daylight pic up if you have not fell asleep reading this yet

i found a touch up gun to be more than handy around drip rails etc

also the 1000 mentioned above was due to me letting wax and grease out of control on a couple of areas- will throw that over my shoulder as it does not react nicely with light mettalic

spat the rest out with a star evo-t 4000

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This is my first venture out of the acrylic age and i must say its nice to see an instant reward for effort

onto sanding out those nibs and flow indicators ( runs ) before a buff