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[samsfern]

decent!! i thought about making some glass door cards specially for tweeters, and painting em body colour, keep up the good work though, nice one

[skaterava]

Funny, i also have a dark blue Mini and i'm planning on surprising my girlfriend with a bright green Mini sometime in the near future!

[pbrain]

Yeah Mike the painter showed me how to use the orbital, and then as a bonus offered to skim filler the whole lot for me if I just bought him the filler

So after a few days of no progress, I'm pretty close to finishing. Hopefully start painting tomorrow. Check it out:

This looks like a real nice job, what filler did you use?

[leaky]

Im stealing that idea. They look so smart good job.

[Danny_California]

Patent pending boyo Just kidding, go for it! Dont mess about with special wood glue or anything, get straight in there with the Araldite, those pods are bullet proof now lol

Thanks pbrain, I did the first layer in bog standard P38 easy sand, but went a bit berserk with the orbital and went through the resin in a couple places, so had to use some P40 with fibreglass strands in it to bridge the tiny little holes. Then I had the guy in the garage offer to do the final layer for me, for which he used u-pol easy sand. Then a bit of high build primer, flatted back and prepped, primed again and then painted, flatted back and laquered! Just finished the laquering now, so heres the money shots:

[pbrain]

Patent pending boyo Just kidding, go for it! Dont mess about with special wood glue or anything, get straight in there with the Araldite, those pods are bullet proof now lol

Thanks pbrain, I did the first layer in bog standard P38 easy sand, but went a bit berserk with the orbital and went through the resin in a couple places, so had to use some P40 with fibreglass strands in it to bridge the tiny little holes. Then I had the guy in the garage offer to do the final layer for me, for which he used u-pol easy sand. Then a bit of high build primer, flatted back and prepped, primed again and then painted, flatted back and laquered! Just finished the laquering now, so heres the money shots:

Looks sweet....big thumbs up!

[miniallsort]

great thread mate very nice mini

[Danny_California]

Thanks peeps! Forgot to stick up the pics I took of it roughly mounted in the back, without any screws in place:





Unfortunately amys not taken the car with her to uni, so its all just sitting there now Oh well atleast it looks nice sitting there lol

Probably not gonna be any work done now since we're in separate uni's, so got knows when I'll get spannering on snobby next! He'll be at castle combe on saturday though if anyone wants to check him out! Feel free to come talk to us, we dont bite hehe

[Matt]

WANT MORE!

*sits with popcorn awaiting piccies*

[Danny_California]

Sorry dude, on hold for the moment! Not much more to do though to be honest, it was only supposed to be a basic install, and thats what it is. Might add an amp at some point and make an install in the boot on the firewall, but I'm in uni now and the car is a good hour and a half drive away lol

[leaky]

Looks really smart. I will be at castle combe 2moz so will keep an eye out of it.

[mymini007]

Thanks, its looking ok so far, lot of work left though. Got to wait for the resin to dry for a bit longer I think, but I wont have a chance to get on with the next step till tomorrow now anyway.
Heres a quick mobile pic of it after the first coat of resin:

Hi, where do you get this resin from and what is the material that you have used?

[Amy_90]

unfortunately i was ill (freshers flu!) and couldnt come to castle combe, cant wait to get back home and drive my mini around, i miss him sooo much!!!!

[stevedx]

nice looking mini, i love the green

[Bert]

I like this man...looks good i might try imitate it and use it in mine as my bootlid build has changed slightly...