1972 Canadian H-Code 340 Dart Swinger Special Resto - Finally started!
Finally found the time and had her ready enough to get some priming and some painting done,
Into the trailer she goes yesterday and off to the shop,
Into the booth with the car and doors and some other parts in the other booth
the entire shell was sanded and washed and ready so the first step was to mask up for the epoxy and high build primer and all the outside panels and door jams,
Hemi orange in the Sikkens paint system calls for a yellow sealer to help with transparency so I put on 3 coats or yellow high build but ran low on the yellow so I needed a fourth coat so put a coat of light grey incase your confused by the two colours. The grey will work well as a guide coat and will be completely gone after blocking and sanding.
Then unmask all of that and mask the engine compartment since I want to use the same base clear on that area that will be on the outside.
Then a coat of dark grey epoxy inside the passenger compartment, two coats of black epoxy on the underside and grey epoxy on the fender aprons and rear wheel tubs, all at the same time. Then a medium light coat of red sealer on the inside and trunk and aprons and tubs to help with hiding of the single stage top coat.
Next step is spray the bottom with the single stage black, seams I forgot to take a pic of the black bottom, then mix up the Hemi orange single stage for the inside and aprons and tubs as well as recreating the factory overspray on the bottom that the factory had. I think Randy(Hemiorangeswinger) and I came close to what the factory did, just blast away!
That was it for saturday, I was beat!
Today my good buddy scatpacker came in to give me a hand with the only painting left was the engine compartment which I'm doing separately with the same base clear as the outside,
Nice to get all that bare metal painted up, a lot of work and I'm not even half way there but onward and upward.
Finally found the time and had her ready enough to get some priming and some painting done,
Into the trailer she goes yesterday and off to the shop,
Into the booth with the car and doors and some other parts in the other booth
the entire shell was sanded and washed and ready so the first step was to mask up for the epoxy and high build primer and all the outside panels and door jams,
Hemi orange in the Sikkens paint system calls for a yellow sealer to help with transparency so I put on 3 coats or yellow high build but ran low on the yellow so I needed a fourth coat so put a coat of light grey incase your confused by the two colours. The grey will work well as a guide coat and will be completely gone after blocking and sanding.
Then unmask all of that and mask the engine compartment since I want to use the same base clear on that area that will be on the outside.
Then a coat of dark grey epoxy inside the passenger compartment, two coats of black epoxy on the underside and grey epoxy on the fender aprons and rear wheel tubs, all at the same time. Then a medium light coat of red sealer on the inside and trunk and aprons and tubs to help with hiding of the single stage top coat.
Next step is spray the bottom with the single stage black, seams I forgot to take a pic of the black bottom, then mix up the Hemi orange single stage for the inside and aprons and tubs as well as recreating the factory overspray on the bottom that the factory had. I think Randy(Hemiorangeswinger) and I came close to what the factory did, just blast away!
That was it for saturday, I was beat!
Today my good buddy scatpacker came in to give me a hand with the only painting left was the engine compartment which I'm doing separately with the same base clear as the outside,
Nice to get all that bare metal painted up, a lot of work and I'm not even half way there but onward and upward.
