Not sure if this is progress or not.
Mr Loon's been busy with customers' cars lately & I need to push on or I'll miss another Summer. So I nipped to the local paintshop yesterday & had a litre of cellulose paint mixed, then 4 aerosol cans made up from it, (that leaves me plenty of paint in the tin for more spray cans when I need 'em).
I figured if I could spray the inner wing sections myself I could get on & re-fit the exhausts, then fire up the engine.
So there I was this afternoon with the place to myself, working outside in a howling gale with sand & gravel being whipped up off the yard, trying to paint. Because of the wind, I had to hold the can far too close to the panel so ended up with some massive runs -big enough to rival the swage lines in the body & so bad I'm not even going to show them to you. Bugger. Then, 2 minutes after I'd painted it, it rained. Then there was a massive hailstorm. Wonderful.
So all in all, not a perfect showroom finish. I waited as long as I could for it to dry then pulled the tarpaulin over it & went home.
More bad weather forcast for tomorrow, so I'll give it a couple of days then rub the runs out, sort out the dodgy filler work that showed up with some paint on it, then blow it over again. At least it's got a base coat on it now.
On the plus side, the colour match is pretty good. I'll be so pleased when the whole thing's finally the same colour. Believe me, it looks way better in photos than real life.
