White ED7 - Fresh paint!

[honda-boy]

I feel like I keep repeating myself but great job

What are you doing with the engine bay ? Because we don't see any pics of that.

[evalex]

I feel like I keep repeating myself but great job

What are you doing with the engine bay ? Because we don't see any pics of that.

Nothing at all at the time being That will be the project for the next month


Haven't really taken pictures from last night, but so far we've sanded down both doors, both bonnets, right side of the shell, top of the shell, wing, both fenders and both filler bars So what's left is the left side of the shell, whole rear bumper and partially the front one After that we'll start making a paint booth and cleaning the garage of the primer dust.

The big day will be in saturday so, stay tuned

[SuperDOHC]

tuned in for Saturday updates

[evalex]

tuned in for Saturday updates

Heh, aiight man, hopefully today will be over with soon! I'm getting impatiend

[honda-boy]

tuned in for Saturday updates

X2

What are the plans for the engine bay ? shave and tuck ?

[evalex]

tuned in for Saturday updates

X2

What are the plans for the engine bay ? shave and tuck ?

Yes Gonna go mental over that part

[evalex]

Updates from 2nd march:

Like i said, today was the D day. First time seeing the color i picked actually on a car part and even in matte finish. Jeez i barely slept last night, i woke up even more tired than i had gone to bed..
Anways, i had gone shopping today to pick up the matte clear coat, flattening agent, some anti-silicone cleaner, a few mixing cups and hardener for the clear coat.. Ended up spending more than for just the paint alone lol

So when i arrived at the place of interest i saw this outside




All the sanding dust has been blown out with a leaf blower


The guys workshop has also been cleaned out and prepared to be vacuumed and made into a paint booth..


A bit later we started making a homemade paint booth


Ended up with this thing


After the place was all vacuumed up, the floor watered down to grab onto the dust so it wouldn't fly around later we started laying out the parts..


The fenders were placed against eachother and bolted down with two self-tapping screws each




The doors were placed on a large wooden plank and taped together at the top so they couldn't be moved by accident


After that we started taping up the parts so we don't get overspray everywhere..


Only the edges of the bonnet were taped around so the overspray doesn't flow to the top plane


Fenders safely taped over with the heaviest grade paper i've ever seen in my life




Next we started doing the masking of the shell itself


Left side done


So we moved to the other side..


Aaaaaand done.


This has to be the thickest clear coat i've ever seen.. In the pic the guy is adding a flattening agent to it. Funny story about that.. The store i bought it at recommends 20% of the flattening agent maximum. He said feck that and added 0,5kg to 2kg of clear Turned out flatter than a dead guys heart rate


A bit later he changed into this white suit and started painting on the hinges


This was the last image before he painted all of the parts for the day.. Overspray is a bitch for the lens


Anyways, a pizza and a cup of coffe later we went down to the workshop to check on the paint But it still wasn't flattened enough, so we gave it more time and caught some sun outside with a cold beer


Coming back later, a grin came upon my face


Now that's proper flat wohooo


This picture kinda is the best to the actual color on the car.. it's dark but not too much, i love it!








Here's a comparisson to the primer color..you can actually see how much darker it is


The pictures don't do the color any justice because it was under neon lights and pictures taken with flash. The paint itself is RAL 7012 - used in most toy model tanks, kinda military gray.. I was scared to go with this one, but i was relieved once it was actually on a part and flattened down. So much win
If everything goes as planned i'll get some white pearls to go in the clearcoat tommorow. A bit "bling" to the car on the sun, but invisible when it's not sunny or under neon lights

What do you guys think?

[vibe85]

Looks quality. Really like the colour.

[honda-boy]

Looks amazing man

Really close to my EG color too, mine is RAL 7037

Really curious on how the pearls will look in the clear.

[Tahir]

Awesome work, love these type of build ups.

[sixteen16]

Like the colour bud. Look forward to seeing it finished, big thumbs up for going on your instinct with the colour it will turn out really nice bud. Shud come out nice once the laquer on

[evalex]

Cheers guys! Just a quick word..the car is the BOMB! Pearls look hella nice..on the sun they pop out like spring flowers Pictures are coming later today

[turbopow]

Looking forward to seeing it mate. Really like the colour.

[evalex]

Here's a sneak peek of the color



Pictures simply don't do it any justice to be honest..i'll have to get a DSLR camera and some sunny photos to really show you the real color

I just love it!

[Sonic-jdm]

looking very fresh!

Bet you can't wait to put her back together!