Tag Archives: Painting

Finally Getting ready for Brands

Posted on June 13, 2010 by AdrianM

Well, in the last three weeks we’ve achieved a fair bit of small but critical works, in the run up to the cars first outing at Brands next weekend. First up I created, an actuation mechanism for the reverse system, … Continue reading →

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Avoiding the Cowpats!

Posted on February 8, 2009 by AdrianM

If I may quote Edmund Blackadder “The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the Devils’s own satanic herd!”. Well the path of this respray seems to have been long and arduous and indeed strewn waist deep … Continue reading →

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Rapidly Running out of Time :-(

Posted on February 7, 2009 by AdrianM

Well we are now only 6 days or so away from the first outing at Snetterton and the liberal “flump” of snow delivered to Eastern England has really screwed my timetable up. At some times this week I couldn’t even … Continue reading →

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Some Other Stuff & Some Moore Paint

Posted on January 31, 2009 by AdrianM

Duncan and I cracked on today in a bid to get the car ready for the test at Snett which is now just 13d 13h and 13 minutes away. We got a fair few sundry items ticked off the to-do … Continue reading →

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On The Subject of Paint

Posted on January 26, 2009 by admin

As you can see from the index picture below, I’ve cracked on and got the rear bodywork done.   In fairness it looks a whole lot better than it did before I started  but to be honest  I right royally  … Continue reading →

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Painting the Front Bodywork

Posted on January 24, 2009 by AdrianM

Today Duncan and I did, lots of fill, sand, stopper, flat back, topcoat 1, topcoat 2, and gloss coat.  We have no fingerprints left  the air is filled with the heady scent of paint. But we have created this!  Now … Continue reading →

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Time to Start Chucking Paint Around

Posted on January 18, 2009 by admin

This entry is in reverse order, as I wanted to use this rather spiffing pic of the newly painted airbox. As I said before I’m trying to get the car to be all one colour this season, (I take a … Continue reading →

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She runs … but didn’t stop :-(

Posted on January 11, 2009 by AdrianM

This Saturday saw a number of  activities come to fruition. Firstly we finished the cooling system and fitted a new fan that I had bought off ebay.  The new fan is a full half a kilo lighter than the old fan, … Continue reading →

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