Hi Per,
No, I would never quit my day job! Things might seem to be moving faster only because I'm really not in the fabrication phase at this point. I'm more in the clean up phase so its all gelling a little quicker. Unfortunately once this car leaves here things will likely go very cold as I understand its going to an old school panel beater who is a bit of a recluse. So we'll all be left in suspense from the way it sounds.
7/27/17
Picking, filing and shrinking the welding joint and old accident damage on that old original section comprising the bridge patch.
Same story as with the left; spending as much time on it as I can cleaning it up so its not a nasty repair patch requiring a ton of filler.
Like the other side,gentle rollers remain but its a close enough fundamental shape that won't need a lot to take it the rest of the way.
Its monsoon season here so the humidity is a lot higher than normal and I noticed my freshly completed left fender is beginning to flash rust.
This car will be media blasted again but thought of watching all these silver panels fog over brown was too much to bear. I brillo'd the fender back clean and gave it a quick coat of primer.
At the same time it was nice to get the surface in different perspective so I could better make out the shape and its short comings.
Not perfect but a lot closer than I ever thought possible as I was initially fitting these sections to the car.
Added the door to again check for general shape and body contour across these two panels.
Body work yet to do but its down to just MM's of correction. I can live with that and able to pass this car off to the next guy with a straight face.
High lighting top profile and contour sweep with door.
Transitions off the door and over into the cowl as I hoped it eventually would. Again I can live with it.
I wasn't planning on primering but this did make for a definite and nice "period" to the end of my work on the majority of this fender. Just gotta get that damn trough area set. I'll be facing that soon enough but not yet; treating the right fender to some primer next then moving onto finishing out the skin along the tail section.
Thanks for looking!
Justin
No, I would never quit my day job! Things might seem to be moving faster only because I'm really not in the fabrication phase at this point. I'm more in the clean up phase so its all gelling a little quicker. Unfortunately once this car leaves here things will likely go very cold as I understand its going to an old school panel beater who is a bit of a recluse. So we'll all be left in suspense from the way it sounds.
7/27/17
Picking, filing and shrinking the welding joint and old accident damage on that old original section comprising the bridge patch.
Same story as with the left; spending as much time on it as I can cleaning it up so its not a nasty repair patch requiring a ton of filler.
Like the other side,gentle rollers remain but its a close enough fundamental shape that won't need a lot to take it the rest of the way.
Its monsoon season here so the humidity is a lot higher than normal and I noticed my freshly completed left fender is beginning to flash rust.
This car will be media blasted again but thought of watching all these silver panels fog over brown was too much to bear. I brillo'd the fender back clean and gave it a quick coat of primer.
At the same time it was nice to get the surface in different perspective so I could better make out the shape and its short comings.
Not perfect but a lot closer than I ever thought possible as I was initially fitting these sections to the car.
Added the door to again check for general shape and body contour across these two panels.
Body work yet to do but its down to just MM's of correction. I can live with that and able to pass this car off to the next guy with a straight face.
High lighting top profile and contour sweep with door.
Transitions off the door and over into the cowl as I hoped it eventually would. Again I can live with it.
I wasn't planning on primering but this did make for a definite and nice "period" to the end of my work on the majority of this fender. Just gotta get that damn trough area set. I'll be facing that soon enough but not yet; treating the right fender to some primer next then moving onto finishing out the skin along the tail section.
Thanks for looking!
Justin
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