Nate
03-15-2008, 04:52 AM
Nash here, or aka Nate. Nate is a nick of mine btw.
Starting up another project- Painting dad's car.
Check out the progress here:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/74182/message/1205134491/OT-+My+Dad%27s+Mustang....first+day+of+bodywork
I'll likely be posting progress here as well. That was after the first day. I spent a lot of today as well. Today:
*Finished Skim coating /sanding both doors. Ready for primer and block sanding.
*Finished Blocksanding Roof. Ready for primer and wetsanding
*Completed about 1/2 of the spot repairs (large dings - metal work)
*Began welding subframe connectors
*Finished skim coating the spoiler (Ford left this wavy)...it bugged me
*Began block sanding the 1/4 panels..will skim coat tomorrow
*Finished the topmost section of the hood
The hood is going to be the biggest pain, as with most fiberglass hoods. Going to prime the top soon, and do some more rough block sanding and filling to see what else needs to be done. When the "scoop" part is done, then im going to block the rest of the hood. I don't think anything is needed but primer and just some good blocksanding.
The sides of the car, as far as the paint goes, is very nice. I could seriously just scuff and shoot this. The problem, is 15 years of nature's wrath. (door dings, etc). I've decided to take 80 grit to the car, and block sand it down to where the stock material is thin, then skim coat it, block it, prime it, block it, then prime another coat and begin wetsanding.
Things are moving along very well for only being two days along. Ill have some picture updates tomorrow. He wants is extremely straight (as straight as my Galaxie), and that's what I'll do for it.
For materials, we are using mainly PPG, 3M, and USC & Rage fillers. All the goodies.
Dad is doing all the grunt work. I told him that he still needs to remove stuff, such as the door handles and the windows. He's done really good so far. He's got all the trim and weather stripping off. Car is just metal inside now, he cleaned all that off. He's be doing extremely well as far as getting things ready for me.
Starting up another project- Painting dad's car.
Check out the progress here:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/74182/message/1205134491/OT-+My+Dad%27s+Mustang....first+day+of+bodywork
I'll likely be posting progress here as well. That was after the first day. I spent a lot of today as well. Today:
*Finished Skim coating /sanding both doors. Ready for primer and block sanding.
*Finished Blocksanding Roof. Ready for primer and wetsanding
*Completed about 1/2 of the spot repairs (large dings - metal work)
*Began welding subframe connectors
*Finished skim coating the spoiler (Ford left this wavy)...it bugged me
*Began block sanding the 1/4 panels..will skim coat tomorrow
*Finished the topmost section of the hood
The hood is going to be the biggest pain, as with most fiberglass hoods. Going to prime the top soon, and do some more rough block sanding and filling to see what else needs to be done. When the "scoop" part is done, then im going to block the rest of the hood. I don't think anything is needed but primer and just some good blocksanding.
The sides of the car, as far as the paint goes, is very nice. I could seriously just scuff and shoot this. The problem, is 15 years of nature's wrath. (door dings, etc). I've decided to take 80 grit to the car, and block sand it down to where the stock material is thin, then skim coat it, block it, prime it, block it, then prime another coat and begin wetsanding.
Things are moving along very well for only being two days along. Ill have some picture updates tomorrow. He wants is extremely straight (as straight as my Galaxie), and that's what I'll do for it.
For materials, we are using mainly PPG, 3M, and USC & Rage fillers. All the goodies.
Dad is doing all the grunt work. I told him that he still needs to remove stuff, such as the door handles and the windows. He's done really good so far. He's got all the trim and weather stripping off. Car is just metal inside now, he cleaned all that off. He's be doing extremely well as far as getting things ready for me.