Outlaw Anglia - took it racing & lifted the wheels!

[blackpopracing]

Totally agree Jon, pops have a hunchback without the gutters.
You probably were thinking I removed them as when we did your pop I was discussing chopping them down, which I did do.

[Nathan]

Love updates to this thread.

[bstardchild]

At last you can put the spray gun down after a gazillion coats of paint and the loss of any figerprints as a result of wet sanding.......

Sugest you do a bank job before the prints come back

[blackpopracing]

^^^^^lol!^^^^^

needs at least 4 or 6 more coats yet with wet sanding in between. 2 coats a night 3 nights to flat down............

[bstardchild]

Aug 11, 2012 22:41:10 GMT blackpopracing said:

^^^^^lol!^^^^^

needs at least 4 or 6 more coats yet with wet sanding in between. 2 coats a night 3 nights to flat down............

[stealthstylz]

You're mad but the results will be (even more) astonishing.

[blackpopracing]

Aug 11, 2012 22:51:46 GMT bstardchild said:

Aug 11, 2012 22:41:10 GMT blackpopracing said:

^^^^^lol!^^^^^

needs at least 4 or 6 more coats yet with wet sanding in between. 2 coats a night 3 nights to flat down............

Only 2 coats so far, so it has to be done. Hoping 6 coats will be enough, so only 2 more lots of spraying. It'a all about thickness, not just shine. If its thick enough you can colour sand with no fears of breaking through to metal again.

[blackpopracing]

Thanks for the compliments everyone.

Unmasked it first before flatting,



Today saw more painting, as it did not matter if the body got overspray on it as it was going to be flatted down later.
The first bit was my column shroud, this was originally satin black, but it had already got marked and after unwrapping it I did not like that finish after all, so it's now going gloss black.



Next up were two of the inner window frames, I had painted all of these earlier but these two had a couple of issues in the finish, so I painted them again.





Also painted the front window inner finisher, this has been hanging around for ages waiting to be done.



And lastly the boring but necessary flatting of the body begins again.

[blackpopracing]

Body is flatted back again now, de grease tomorrow and mask up again, then painting more coats at the weekend

[bstardchild]

Aug 15, 2012 22:58:32 GMT blackpopracing said:

Body is flatted back again now, de grease tomorrow and mask up again, then painting more coats at the weekend

the saint, have, a, patience of you,

[blackpopracing]

;D ;D ;D

[blackpopracing]

Bit of a mare in the garage today, was about to finish painting the shell, got it all prepped and the compressor decides it wont run
Managed to get it running again after stripping half of it without finding any faults.
Tack ragged the body, mixed the paint, loaded the gun and started painting......and stopped. Gun was pulsing the paint, tried all sorts with it as I thought it was not breathing properly through the vent hole as paint was coming out of it (not normal on this gun) so quite messy!
Ended up stripping the gun completely and found a tiny obstruction in the tip.

In the meantime there was paint curing on the car so it was a quick load up again and get spraying. Got the first coat on but it really was not looking good, very orange peely and a bit dry, not happy with it at all, and I got a run on the lower rear panel

Thinned the mix down a bit more for the second coat and shot that on, but compressor packed up again 3/4 of the way through luckily there was enough pressure in the tank to finish without losing pressure at the gun.

At least the second coat went on really nicely, flowed out much better for a pretty good gloss all over.

I'll quickly block the run in the rear valence tomorrow and just blow that section while the paint is still green.

Started looking into the compressor issue, turns out it was a sticking pressure switch, it was switching the power but not releasing the pressure so the motor was loading and tripping the safety.

Anyway, finished body

[blackpopracing]

All blocked back and blown in now. It was a bit of a big run to risk just polishing it back.
Took all the masking off the car today and found where I had massaged the front window frame to be flatter has reshaped the lovely smoothed dashboard........and not in a good way!!! :sniff:
Had to carefully block and hammer it all back into shape, it needs repainting now
Oh well!

[toreno]

thats a lot of messing about but what a finish on that paint nice work sir

[Deleted]

Hope you like polishing Mark. I'm hating having to do mine!

[blackpopracing]

Started polishing the cage yesterday Jon, that's fun as it's all by hand!

It's not the polishing, but the flatting down thats tedious, if you don't get all the sanding scratches out it does not matter how shiny you get it, it still will look scratched!

[carlb1970]

that is amazing, looks like black chrome, and thats before the polishing! awesome work, hope one day i get to see it in the metal

[blackpopracing]

Thanks Carl,
Been polishing the cage today, but had a quick play on the roof which has the worst orange peel;


And after a quick flat and polish ;

[kee]

stop taking pictures of mirrors and show me the car, in fact even mirrors arent that perfect.

you sir are rather good at this

[blackpopracing]

Cheers Kee, it's come out quite well hasen't it?
We won't talk about where I polished the cage and now have a nice patch of primer another bit to repaint