Saturday, November 28, 2015

I know it looks like I am posting the same pictures I just did but a lot has gone on since I last posted. I have blocked the entire car and polyester filled a ton of imperfections. So that took forever as I can only stand about 5 to 6 hours of that kind of workout.  So I re primed the car and put another guide coat on. Time to block again. Hopefully I won't be finding to many more low spots.  I have been looking at a bunch of colors out in the wild but until you spray out a large sample it is hard to tell if they will work well together. I wanted to stay with Dodge late model colors but that did not work out. The sides will be an 04 Dodge Stratus color which is Graphite Metallic. The top will end up being a 2014 GM Color called Ashen Grey. It is near impossible to see from the pictures but the first two work pretty well with each other and the Graphite color is darker than it appears in the picture. I really wanted to use the third color down as it is a 2013 Dodge Challenger color but while it looks blackish /grey when it stands alone it appears dark reddish /brown next to the Graphite Metallic. The last color which was a Toyota color called Magnetic Gray Metallic has a lot of red in it too so it did not work.





Sunday, November 22, 2015

I wanted to put some side markers in so I got the 06 side markers and worked them around so that I could fit them into the sides of the front air dam. At work we use .060 Carbon fiber panels and I got some cut off pieces and epoxied them together to built the front air dam.
I got the first coat of primer on the car and it showed up a lot of my body work short comings. I have a bit more work to do than I thought but it is getting there.