sheepers Posted July 30, 2015 Author Share Posted July 30, 2015 so i left the door in the sun all day and when i came home it was hard enough to sand. so i did. its now really good shape wise and needs 1 more coat of primer and its ready for wet sanding along with all the other panels in the shed. why is it leaning up against the bench? because I'm painting the seams inside the door and i want the paint to run into the seam. ill do each seam 1 day at a time turning the door each time to get the paint right in there. you can see it running out the lock hle because I've been painting the whole inside of the door. Untitled by sheepers, on Flickr Untitled by sheepers, on Flickr next is the bonnet. actually next i think ill fit the panels I've done and see how everything lines up before i go to much further. after the bonnet its the rear quarters and the roof to do as well as the minor bits and bobs. its getting there….. it'll be red soon if I'm not careful 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted August 4, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2015 trial panel fit. everything looks pretty good. i haven't lined everything up perfectly, more fitting things close to where they should be so i can see if i can get it right without any major surgery. looks like its all going to come together without to much hassle which is nice. the only issue really is the bottom of the passengers door where it meets the front guard. its to far out so i might have to elongate the holes in the hinge to get it to sit in better. everything else looks pretty good, gaps and flatness across the joints looks workable from here. what to do next? probably do the bonnet and fix the hinges because they're fucked. Untitled by sheepers, on Flickr 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted August 7, 2015 Author Share Posted August 7, 2015 filled the inside of the boot lid with paint and finished filling the passengers door also. i took the bonnet off and got that ready for its first coat of primer. it had two little rust holes in the front edge which i cut out and welded in new bits. it had a couple of dents in it so i got it a bit better before priming it. it had the primer on it which was over the whole car. i have no idea what it is but it sands ok. so bonnet got its first coat of primer and passenger door got what i hope is its last. 20150807_174551 by sheepers, on Flickr 20150807_174609 by sheepers, on Flickr 20150807_190243 by sheepers, on Flickr 20150807_190316 by sheepers, on Flickr 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted August 8, 2015 Author Share Posted August 8, 2015 aint done much today. i cut some holes in the boot lid frame so i can get the cavity wax nozzle in there and blast that shit everywhere. also i put so much paint in it the other day that when i turned it upside down paint started running out of the seams, 3 days latter. you can see it in the picture on the left. must be a fair amount of paint sloshing about in there which i s good. 20150808_154015 by sheepers, on Flickr 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted August 23, 2015 Author Share Posted August 23, 2015 i sanded both rear quarters back looking for rust and general dodgy shit. i took WHOLE BUNCH of bog out of the passengers side but apart from that there wasn't much to find. there is a dent in the drivers side thats pretty hard to fathom how it got there but thats about it. so after removing a ton of superfluous bog i laid a sealer coat of primer over it all. ill start getting some shape into it this week. also i tripped on my air hose while i was carrying the bonnet and dropped it on the panel stand putting two nice dents in the skin. i need a grown up to help me because i think ill fuck it if i hit it any more. 20150823_155327 by sheepers, on Flickr 20150823_155402 by sheepers, on Flickr 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted September 6, 2015 Author Share Posted September 6, 2015 Peter fixed the bonnet for me. i brushed some primer on the bare patches and gave it a sand back so now i can continue with getting the bonnet flat and fitting it to the car. i also resurrected a pair of bonnet hinges that Mike gave me (celica bonnet hinges are made from wet bus tickets and every single one of them folded in half a week after leaving the showroom floor) and ill fit the bonnet with them. once its in the right place and the hinges are bent back to where they need to be ill make some plates and weld them up so they don't flop about again. 2015-09-06_12-36-16 by sheepers, on Flickr 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted September 10, 2015 Author Share Posted September 10, 2015 bonnet primed. again. 2015-09-10_05-17-59 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-09-10_05-49-53 by sheepers, on Flickr 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted September 18, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 18, 2015 underside of the bonnet prepped and painted. there was a tiny bit of rust in between the skins right at the front lip. i tried to take a photo but it was pointing into the light so it didnt work to well. but you can see right at the front of the bonnet the lip is all wrinkly. what i did was prize the two skins apart between the spot welds and i used the air hacksaw in the gap to act as a scraper, using the sides of the blade rather than the face, to get the shit off the two surfaces, then i rust killed it a few times while using the air hacksaw in between coats of the rust kill. it came up really well. so then i painted it. i mixed up the paint then used a brush to flow paint down between the two skins. its better than new in there now. then i painted the rest of the underside of the bonnet. ill give it a sand with 240 odd then wet lay another coat of primer then colour but thats a little way off yet. next is to fit the bonnet and get the hinges right then ill weld some gussets into the hinges so they don't fold like the frenchmen they are. 2015-09-17_11-36-05 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-09-17_02-37-20 by sheepers, on Flickr also i blocked the bonnet down and wasn't happy with it so i put a tiny bit of green spot putty in it and primed it again. i hope that this is the last coat of primer before colour. i bet somewhere in this thread there is the immortal phrase "I'm not going to get to carried away with this build" whatever dick. 2015-09-18_12-43-47 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-09-18_01-58-58 by sheepers, on Flickr also did some snow tyre traction testing. snow tires don't traction too well. 2015-09-18_05-50-17 by sheepers, on Flickr 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 fuck, what a day. i have worked my arse off today but its been worth it. got shape 90% finished on the passengers side rear quarter and then i put some paint on it. badly. made a schoolboy error by blazing paint on without setting up my gun first. id only used it the other day but i forgot i changed all the settings when i cleaned it. i thought it was all set up but it wasn't. runs all around the guard lip. don't matter, its got a bit to go yet but still disappointing. 2015-09-19_03-43-45 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-09-19_04-19-22 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-09-19_05-10-56 by sheepers, on Flickr 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted September 20, 2015 Author Share Posted September 20, 2015 another long day but worth it. both bottom corners still require a bit of work but the bulk of its good. hopefully paint it tomorrow night. 2015-09-20_03-50-35 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-09-20_03-52-33 by sheepers, on Flickr 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 finished the passengers side and painted it. dont have a pic of it painted because it was fucking late and i was fucking tired. 2015-09-21_07-41-45 by sheepers, on Flickr 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted September 23, 2015 Author Share Posted September 23, 2015 whilst waiting for food to cook i thought id show you this. its pretty good for the first block. apart from the couple of bits sticking through its correct shape wise and you could, if you were a ruff cunt, spot prime this patches and put colour on it because its that close. very happy about that. it will get one more coat of primer and a final block before colour. 2015-09-23_06-41-42 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-09-23_06-41-32 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-09-23_06-42-38 by sheepers, on Flickr also i paint the wheel on purpose because. now imma stuff some foods down my pie tester then attack the other side. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted September 29, 2015 Author Share Posted September 29, 2015 passengers side is getting pretty close now. there was a bit of mismatch between the panels so i had to put a bit of filler in to get the panels flush. wasn't much but it will make it look millions better. got a few things to do this week so it'll probably be the weekend before i can paint it all. then its onto the front and rear scuttle and starting to think about putting some colour into the shuts and engine bay. peter is going to do the roof week after next so its getting pretty close now. 2015-09-29_08-06-30 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-09-29_08-05-42 by sheepers, on Flickr 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted October 3, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 3, 2015 thats better, 2015-10-03_04-04-18 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-03_04-04-07 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-03_04-03-50 by sheepers, on Flickr i painted the other rear quarter too. the wind blew the plastic mask sheet and it touched the door in the middle. no biggie but a bit of a pain in the butt. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted October 3, 2015 Author Share Posted October 3, 2015 oh, and i painted the wheel. because. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted October 4, 2015 Author Share Posted October 4, 2015 got the rear bumper fitted to make sure it would line up. and it does, after much fucking around by me and many bending and hitting and tweaking. i only have two rear bumpers and the other one is pretty rusty so i have to use this one. its been sanded and was painted at some point. i think ill tidy it up and paint it again. Richie had the idea of painting the bumpers and the wheels a sort of gun metal colour and i think it should look really good so I'm going to do that. i aint got the cash monies to get both bumpers re-chromed so paint it will have to be. 2015-10-04_01-56-27 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-04_01-56-14 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-04_01-56-05 by sheepers, on Flickr once i was happy with the bumper fit i stripped the rear panel looking for rust and dodgy repairs. i found plenty of bog and a semi bad fuckup in one corner but nothing to bad. ill fix the corner and put a coat of sealer on it tomorrow i expect then get it ready for colour. 2015-10-04_03-23-02 by sheepers, on Flickr 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted October 8, 2015 Author Share Posted October 8, 2015 there was a couple of patches that i didn't like the look of so i went digging and sure enough, captan fuckup had been there and made a fucking mess. its quite common for these to rust around the outside bottom corner of the tail light housing and they rust from the inside out usually. there are 3 skins that overlap and all the laps point up so any water is just going to work its way in there. you can see a repair in the photo above in the bottom corner of the drivers side. so i cut out all the horror and made new bits. i also removed the tow hook and made a whole new corner for that side bottom bit because it was a bit haku in there. rust removed and copper weld thru primed in behind. the pictures make it look really lumpy and shit but its not like that in real life. 2015-10-08_07-50-12 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-08_07-50-24 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-08_07-50-33 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-08_07-50-42 by sheepers, on Flickr 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted October 10, 2015 Author Share Posted October 10, 2015 here are some bad photos of the sills stripped back and ready for a coat of primer.. 2015-10-10_02-22-28 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-10_02-21-58 by sheepers, on Flickr and here are some pictures of runny paint. 2015-10-10_03-01-27 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-10_03-01-38 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-10_03-01-18 by sheepers, on Flickr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted October 11, 2015 Author Share Posted October 11, 2015 cleaned the car out and took the sunroof out. somehow the sunroof glass got broken and the rest of it got fucking mangled so the cunt of a thing can never ruin another car. 2015-10-11_12-08-19 by sheepers, on Flickr so now its onto the roof. I've got to get a couple of patches fixed before Peter can do the sunroof. this is what it looks like now. 2015-10-11_01-08-37 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-11_01-08-27 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-11_01-08-45 by sheepers, on Flickr this picture gives a good indication of just how ripply the roof is. how the fuck they managed to fuck it that bad i have no idea but Peter sees no problem in fixing it. oh, and he's going to make some new gutters for it too because they've been hacked off. 2015-10-11_01-08-55 by sheepers, on Flickr 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sheepers Posted October 17, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2015 sills and rear panel all shape correct and finish primed. 2015-10-17_01-17-18 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-17_01-17-09 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-17_01-17-02 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-17_01-16-54 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-17_01-16-47 by sheepers, on Flickr 2015-10-17_01-16-40 by sheepers, on Flickr 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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