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[Thorpsta]

Ordered some paint with next day delivery, it came three days later But.. I saw it today, and it's.. a work of art..

[Thorpsta]

Well, she's fully painted, next step to finish building up the subframes, and get her rolling

[miniman_7]

Beautiful colour!!
Can't wait to get mine looking the same.

[Thorpsta]

Beautiful colour!!
Can't wait to get mine looking the same.

I wish I'd taken the paper of the roof now and got some pictures with the roof visible, it honestly looks amazing, looks so different from when she was blasted, makes it seem so much more worth while, I'll give your thread a read now, never seen it :S

[Thorpsta]

Hello again everyone, time for another update, quite a fair bit done this time, suspension wise..

Finally cleaned the steering rack (camera's auto-focus is terrible) But it's shiny.. or, it was






Then got out the cheap aldi electric compressor dad's had for ages and praid it worked as it was never tested when bought.. 4 years ago





Then hung various bit's and bob's up





I forgot to take a picture, but the blacked part was done somewhere else, but then etched all the parts up





Rubbed them down and blacked them





^Ignore the un-etched parts, we ran out etch, and there's not enough parts to mix some more etch up to make it worthwhile.


Then gave the trumpets a once over with thinners






And made them silver






And that's all I managed before it started to rain

Soon to be rolling.. soon

We're struggling to find a complete starter button - shrowd and dust cap, that's near, or good condition

Edited by Thorpsta, 01 July 2012 - 03:02 PM.

[austinmini1963]

Wow! what a car! I love the colour aswell! we need more updates!!

[Thorpsta]

Got a small update, I'll put the pictures on tomorrow :)

[malcs_miniturbo]

nice work mate i currently looking for another mk1 project so hopefully be doing the same

[Thorpsta]

nice work mate i currently looking for another mk1 project so hopefully be doing the same

Thanks for the comment, another? Be sure to link me to the build thread ;p

Edited by Thorpsta, 08 July 2012 - 11:40 AM.

[Thorpsta]

Hello again, here's the update I promised for yesterday

First off, here it is with the roof on show, still not great pictures, but they'll do for now





As many of you know, I've been dieing to get a starter button, that's complete with shrowd, sorry to everyone who I annoyed, but I finally fount one complete, for £20 (used)

I forgot to take a picture of before, but here it is cleaned and masked up





Had a go at the fuel tank, this.. was... absolute torture, but I did it, it wasn't a great shade of clean, more of rust, but it will do










Door handles, before:



After:





Also tried cleaning the brake valve that goes on the rear subframe.. It's hard to clean 20 years of rust







Also cleaned and etched up some donuts.. But forgot to take pictures :/

That's all, if the weather is good we should be blackening bits today

Thanks
Will

[Thorpsta]

Just had a quick painting session, the door catches are now black

[miniman_7]

Lovely!

One question. How many litres of red cellulose did you use?
I take it you painted inside and out??

[Thorpsta]

Lovely!

One question. How many litres of red cellulose did you use?
I take it you painted inside and out??

We didn't use cellulose, we used around 8 litres of 2 pack direct gloss, but that was for the whole car, inside out, floors top and bottom, and around 2 litres of black for the roof

[Thorpsta]

Confused which pictures are for today and which arn't


Rubbed a few bits down and blackend the donuts and door handles again though








We left the button in a draft so the paint bloomed Decided to paint the button silver instead, and leave the shrowd black

Edited by Thorpsta, 11 July 2012 - 02:29 PM.

[Thorpsta]

After breathing in a tonne of paint and thinner fumes I'm suprised I'm able to type this and not 100% brain dead.

Got quite a fair bit done this last week

Started rubbing down the rear subframe, as some of it wasn't fully painted we decided to do it again






Thought I had more pictures of that but apparantly I dont'

Next up was various door part's. Some of these where already etched with the car so we just gave them a once over in primer for now






Next up was two brackets, at the moment I can't remember what they're for All I know is they where a pain to clean







After that, the pedal box, this was worse to clean as it as awkward to get on the wirebrush, it kept snagging in the holes and dragging it down, and I couldn't get in the inside, I done it as best as I could




I thought I had a picture of this clean aswell but I don't
I'll throw it in the next update

After that we filled the tank up with some gone off diesel, to check for leaks, we didn't see any
But then, we washed inside thoroughly and it leaked through the sender gauge? I've just forgotten what it's called, 30% brain dead from the fumes

Handbrake was the next contender





Followed by some pedals, sorry for the blury picture






Another pedal box related spring







And then we gave the subframe it's final coat, I grabbed these pictures quickly before breathing in a tonne of fumes.








Thanks, Will.