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paul wiginton
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Well done Sumpnut for having a go at painting yourself, dont blame you- a word of advice with celly paint though, dont get the primer wet. Dry flat it with wet or dry, if the primer is damp in any way you will end up with microblisters and have to strip it all off and start again.
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On 23/12/2005 07:29:43 AlexB said:

I was dragged to see that twice - once with jason donavan, and once with some other cunt. i hate musicals.

looks solid dan.

how could i round that off any better ? Alex you r a legend psml hahahahahahahahahaha

as for the paint i presumed that some of the coats are primer, was it not that horrible brown that minis came in during late 70`s early 80`s with the tan seats ? i cant make out which colour is nearest the base metal lol cycadelic maaaaaaan

have you considered red ? i had a nice red mini (peugeot red) its the one in my sig, it really glowed twas nice *wink*

Edited by Richie on 11th Jan, 2006.



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I doubt I'll be dipping into the 13's like you did though!






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Hey my Mini is still brown with tan striped seats... and I happen to like it! Theres only one other brown mini in northern ireland (1275GT). Of course what does that say about the colour!

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its only my opinion lol each to their own not 4 me though



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i'm painting my 1275gt dissentry brown when i've finished prepping it :)

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I recon my one came out the factory brown with 2 layers of primer under it, got resrayed brown with a layer of primer. Then some panels were replaced and then the whole car primered again and painted yellow/green.

The scuttle pannel and roof however also had a layer of pink in there - weird huh?

Joey if by sans valance you mean "no valance" you would be right - if i dont need it i will do wihtout it! Looks a bit ugly seeing the subby though!


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On 12/01/2006 22:43:00 mini1071s said:

....going to be a really nice Mini I think :)



You clearly have not seen my attempts at spraying in the past*laughing**tired*


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Update Time - I've been home both this weekend and last weekend, forgot my camera last weekend though so it may seem to have jumped on quite a bit!

I decided to clear some room in the garage so when it comes to the final painting I will be able to freely walk around the car. So I decided to concentrate on one area - the engine bay.

Last weekend I dropped off the front subframe then stripped back the engine bay to bare metal - it wasnt too bad only 3 layers of paint! Then got to work painting - the compressor was only a tiny 0.5hp one so it was slow going! Anywho I got it painted up in surf blue! :)

With a bit of rubbing and some polishing it hasnt come out too bad - It was a good test run as now I know how much extra work I will need to put onto the external panels to make them better than this!

On the sunday I stripped the subframe and pulled the steering rack off. To my pleasent supprise every thing was in really good condition - still was painted and had stickers on - so I suspect it was all renewed when the car was restored a couple of years ago.

The subby had a quick clean and a bit of black wacked on it -then it was all reasembled with my adjustable bits and bobs, new dust seals sprung washers etc.

[img]http://www.turbominis.co.uk/_photos/members-motors/177/1796.jpg[img]





Today I got around to fitting my engine back in. I was keen to do this to see exactly how much clearance the T25 had with the mirage kit and to make some work space of course!



Clearance is ok - I suspect once the stablisers are fitted (I usally tilt the engine forward a tad) clearance should be better.





Cheers Guys

Dan

Edited by SumpNut on 22nd Jan, 2006.


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good colour you doing a white roof

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great progress pics dan, keep it going and you'll be ready for avon'06!


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That is a fantastic colour. Cars like this are alowed to be lairy!
Good progress *happy*


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Looking good mate.
Lush colour!!
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Ive been working on the car quite a bit recently. I would have liked to spray all of the car inside and out at once, but I dont have much space in the garage so I had to get the rollcage out of the way. So I decided to concentrate on the interior recently:

Stripping it was not quite as bad as the outside. It was covered in a wax based stone chip that paint thinnners ripped apart quite easily. Then there was only one layer of brown paint and primer that came off easily.





I seem to have missed a bare metal photo again but here it is in primer:




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bloody hell, fair play mate


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woops pressed post early - righ here is the rest of my update.



























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Since these photos were taken the roll cage has been fully bolted in - that took ages and about 6 drill bits!

I've recently been fitting up all the fibreglass panels, i'll give an update on these later.


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Hey, did you colour swatch Phils mini? LOL

Looking good anyways!

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Very smart mate! soon be done for avon!!


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great to see the update pics dan

keep up the good work!!


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Its looking good Dan!


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Looking realy good!..Love the colour.

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very nice, what cage is that?


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Thats well nice, keep up the good work!

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