Anglia Progress

[Jonny69]

Only a small amount of progress this week due to circumstances but some is better than none and this needed doing desperately. The headlight trims needed a whack with primer and I had a few drips of paint left which I hoped would stretch.

These are the suckers, rubbed and ready to go:



I masked up a board to spray them on:



Rolled the car back and put a couple of coats of paint on:



Finally where I had started to flat the boot I'd put a load of scratches in it by using paper that was too rough. I was worried it would show through the paint so better safe than sorry I blew another coat over the offending area to smooth it down:



I can re-rub it now with the correct grade paper and my final finish will be better as a result. I figure by getting as best finish as I can on the primer it'll save me work on the topcoat, what with being a novice sprayer and all

[Roberta]

I'm really excited about this thread. I so love Anglias.

[Grandad]

some great work there, I have neither the patience or ability to tackle stuff like that

[Jonny69]

It's been a short while since I updated last but work must go on at a fast pace and I took a few days off to get some of the more time consuming bits done, namely the rubbing down and spraying. Had a really bad day and lost my direction a bit and started playing with the Pop on day Wednesday but got back on track yesterday and got the rubbing down done, then cleaned down the garage. I bought a roll of polythene to put down on the floor to protect from overspray and shot a few coats on the inside of the doors.



Then to my absolute delight today has turned into beautiful weather and I could ask for more to spray in. So slight change of plan I rolled out an area outside the garage to spray on giving me much more space and an empty garage to work in. Kill two birds with one stone and perfect space to do the bootlid in:



Car outside:



Binbags over the wheels so they don't get done in red!



First coat I just did around the edges, anywhere tricky to get to etc:





One coat on the bootlid:



First proper coat on the body:



Mmmm stripy:

[Jonny69]

This is after 2 or 3 coats maybe?





Meh, I lost count! I gauged it by how much paint was gone out the tin and how deep it looked. The last two coats I layed on thick and wet, got one run on the driver's side which is nothing to deal with at all and it's come out superb. A few bits of dust but nothing that won't polish out and orange peel is a minimum. Anyway, I'll let the pictues do the talking...







After lunch I did the door fronts with the rest of the paint I had mixed up.

[Jonny69]

And for my post lunchime progress I bring you painted doors! Again, did the edges first then a thin coat, here we are at coat number 1:



4 coats later here's the finished door with all the masking peeled off:



As you can see my sunlight has gone down and the temperature has dropped so the paint hasn't cured as quick as it did earlier in the day. I've had to leave them downstairs for a few hours to cure so a DON'T TOUCH! notice was in order:



Luckily they were still there after a few hours, untouched, when I went down to put them to bed

[Nutcase]

Damned fine job there

[rich99]

Damn you - you're making me contemplate stealing my Dad's '59 Beetle and giving it the restoration it's been waiting the last 15 years for


Amazing bit of work there, I'll definitely be watching this thread for a bit of inspiration

[Jonny69]

More red gone antics gone on Sunday and it's been a really long day. Time to tackle final paint on the flipfront. First I pulled it into the middle of the garage and sanded out the orange peel in the primer. I couldn't get it out completely because I'd sanded the fibreglass with paper that was too coarse and I risked going through to the blue gelcoat so I took the worst out and let the topcoat fill in the rest. 2K is really good at that. Where I was going to spray was dangerously close to my freshly sprayed doors so I covered them up with some poly sheet and turned the car around to keep the fresher panels away from my spray area:



I then made myself a custom spray booth out the front:



First coat went on nice and stripy, I was tempted to leave it at that because it actually looked really cool Work In Progress style:





In between coats I boshed paint on the headlight trims and the rear panel:



After about 4 coats they were looking supoib so I put them at the back of the garage where they wouldn't get any overspray:



This is how the flipfront looks after 6 coats:



I was tempted to go on but the sun was over the yard so any more wouldn't have gelled in time to get another coat on and would have taken ages to cure after that. The last two coats went on nice and wet and really flatted out so there's no bother there, I can always lay a load more on at a later date.

So that's it with the painting. The car has taken just 2.5 litres of paint and that's about 6 coats all over. It's buried everything underneath nicely and is now ready to flat and polish at some point. I'm going to leave it to very last so the paint has had plenty of time to cure and shrink back. This many coats sprayed in non-ideal conditions does have a habit of shrinking slightly, nowhere near as much as celly but it still does it. In the meantime it's REASSEMBLY TIME!!!

[BBx]

Awww Jonny it looks great!

BB x