Plastic Fantastic tew

[silver_bullet]

Buick wants a new bowl!

[oletrux4evr]

I like it! Shoot it with some satin clear..........

[SuperBuickGuy]

so I took pictures earlier.... for whatever reason they didn't get on the memory card... so these are round 2. The first set had Buick in my Buick wagon snoozing.
I dunno, maybe either use it as a template or cut it down so it clears the air cleaner

it turned out a lot better then I expected

hard to see but the front flare is now nearly close enough

other side for comparison

[SuperBuickGuy]

so I may outsource the actual coloring of this car - which means I need to get the major done now....
it's good enough for white.... not black, yet

this gives a good perspective of the front fenders

much sanding later


time to cut a hole





no going back now

and voila

[74NovaMan]

Nice to see it coming together! Looks good!

[SuperBuickGuy]

time to spot fill the doors

[SuperBuickGuy]

bent to hood contour

I seriously hope this is the last time to fit the doors before paint


sexy

finally the front flare is showing the right shape

[SuperBuickGuy]

Lots of pictures, but the point is it's pretty much all sanding today


all of these are low spots


and chips


and fill

so twice this amount of liquid and you get peanut butter



you have no idea how tempted I am to paint this white




so while the filler is drying... onto the Buick

[SuperBuickGuy]

so I used the wrong squirt nozzle for the epoxy, so I got to remove what wasn't drying and replace it
oops


then tonight I got to use all-of-my-epoxy-knowledge and help another person.... I know what the blind leading the blind looks like.... his turned out better then mine - but I think he had more YouTube videos under his belt ;)

and for the record, he would have made the same mistake I did. West Systems comes with 3 dispense pumps. 2 are for the hardener, one is for resin.... but one of the hardener tops is the same size as the resin (they all come with varying lengths of pickup tubes).... tonight as I was mixing the new batch I noticed printing which illuminated my error. It's a really easy error to make so don't be me

[SuperBuickGuy]

no no the cough is bondo and fiberglass

sheesh, people are humorless these days

three spots left






one down


then it will be time to high-build and sand

[milner351]

I see no reason for the hate of white - maybe plain old refrigerator white, but there are some really neat white paint jobs out there that have pearl / silver metallic over the top that look really really cool. Given my lack of body work patience - if I re-color a car, it will likely end up in a permanent state of primer.

[DanStokes]

Call when ready and I'll help you shoot it in color. We get to MI every summer so we can make this happen. It really isn't all that hard - if I can do it ANYONE can do it!

Dan

[SuperBuickGuy]

Call when ready and I'll help you shoot it in color. We get to MI every summer so we can make this happen. It really isn't all that hard - if I can do it ANYONE can do it!

Dan

that would be a kick, I think the Corvette is headed to the guy who painted my 83 GMC pickup.... this no booth thing is a problem. What's funny, he's done every black paint - he did the pieces from my H3, he did the Jetta, and he did the pickup - all were black....
that said, I am thinking the Buick is going to get the garage paint

[DanStokes]

[SuperBuickGuy]

Dan, you're welcome any time, there isn't a day when I don't have something going on

Primered, again. Out of high build primer.. oops.