Porgress is going good on the Touring. I am in the block sanding stage. Have some minor issues that need a touch of glaze. If it quits raining, I am ready to paint the running gear and the chassis. (I will post pics later this weekend.) The plan is to get the chassis rolling. paint the body, mate the two and start on cleaning up the motor. Only thing I am not happy with is the front doors dont fit well at the bottom/rear. Lots of gaposis there. Keep ya posted.
i feel your pain bro. i recently wet sanded on the wife's Bug until my fingers started to bleed, then i kept sanding.
I've been doing block sanding on my 34 Plymouth... Its kinda fun when you start, but after a few days the joy sorta goes out of it and you realize that ya still have a looong way to go... I hate this*****, and I keep thinking its good enough for flat paint. But it aint the best I can do, so I go back over it time and time and time again. Jeez, I gotta go fabricate a bracket or do sumpin that goes faster than this.. I'm goin nuts!
Ahh yes!! block sanding. After the fifth time it's perfect. Then you let you fingers heal and block it again. I could tell you a story about a 1962 Tempest wagon roof panel but it still hurts my fingers after 42 years.
try wrapping your figer tips in masking tape before you start wet sanding. i see some of the guys from the paint dept. at work do that quite often.
it's all the sanding (before and after the paint) that really makes a paint job OUTSTANDING. a very good painter i know told me "any jackass can spray paint on a car, it's the sanding that makes it look good." obviously that would'nt apply to tricky painting technices like fades etc., but it is essentially true.
Well i gotta do mine very shortly and i'm not looking forward to it.The main of the truck is bare metal but the bed needs some wire brush to it,i decided to roller the filler primer on as i'm going to try for shiney paint just like in the ole days i sorta want to get it looking like it been sprayed with a vacuum cleaner but have no idea what the finish would look like............Marq
I'm worn the hell out from doing my '54 Chevy, it's a monumentally boring and tiresome task. I'm getting there though.
Hell, I am not even to the tedious part yet! I am longboarding/paintsticking down the high build. I am close to the final primer coat before the wetsanding happens. I am not trying for a show job, but I know that the nicer the primer, the easier it is to get the topcoat smooth. i have spent as much time tweaking my doors this wekend trying to get them to look OK as I have spent sanding. They are being pesky little******es! I had to take a lunch/grocery/lawnmowing break, then its back to the salt mine!
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