1966 Valiant Signet Convertible Resto
Well I've been very busy on the car lately. Been colorsanding my fingers to the bone trying to get this thing ready for assembly and buffing. I had a couple of mishaps that I had to fix but I was able to blend them perfectly. Thank goodness this metallic is not too hard to blend. It was great experience learning how to blend the basecoat.
Here are a few pics of the progress. I know it's not much but this is very time consuming and very deliberate sanding. I'm trying to get it as perfect as I can with no urethane wave which is very hard to fight since I have a very high solids clear and 6 coats of clear on board. It's getting there. Just hope I can at least get her put together and drivable with a couple passes with the buffer before the Spring Fling. After the show I'll go to town with the buffer.
Love a sunny day and sanding in sunny Socal
These are the results after wetsanding with 800 all the way to 3000 and a couple of passes with the wool cutting pad. I pretty happy so far. Can't wait to see the final polish. :-D
Got a little bit of urethane wave in this view near the body line. Will knock that back down with some 800 and re-work it.
Grill center piece turned out nice
These will be attacked this weekend. :toothy10:
Will have the doors and fenders mounted the next time I post pics. I need to rest my back and shoulders and have a beer. :cheers:
Well I've been very busy on the car lately. Been colorsanding my fingers to the bone trying to get this thing ready for assembly and buffing. I had a couple of mishaps that I had to fix but I was able to blend them perfectly. Thank goodness this metallic is not too hard to blend. It was great experience learning how to blend the basecoat.
Here are a few pics of the progress. I know it's not much but this is very time consuming and very deliberate sanding. I'm trying to get it as perfect as I can with no urethane wave which is very hard to fight since I have a very high solids clear and 6 coats of clear on board. It's getting there. Just hope I can at least get her put together and drivable with a couple passes with the buffer before the Spring Fling. After the show I'll go to town with the buffer.
Love a sunny day and sanding in sunny Socal
These are the results after wetsanding with 800 all the way to 3000 and a couple of passes with the wool cutting pad. I pretty happy so far. Can't wait to see the final polish. :-D
Got a little bit of urethane wave in this view near the body line. Will knock that back down with some 800 and re-work it.
Grill center piece turned out nice
These will be attacked this weekend. :toothy10:
Will have the doors and fenders mounted the next time I post pics. I need to rest my back and shoulders and have a beer. :cheers:
