Jan 2, 2009

More failures, hense why i havent updated in a while, got aggravated and lost motivation... this is a accumulation of stuff ive done in the past weeks...

Finished painting the engine bay for the second time! not perfect, but satisfied...
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So now on to the top coat!............... wow this came out like shit, so many errors....(this was sprayed)
this is the only spot that came out decent...
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the rest looked like this............
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awesome, looks like shit, failed again...

stripping the engine bay round 3..................(hense why i lost motivation.......
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gave up for the night after that and said f-this for the next few days.....

stripping continues.....
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preping to sandblast the hard to reach places and final clean up..(i started painting the front as you can see)
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ohhh, and it gets better, the sandblaster doesnt take any of this crap off..... back to wire wheel....

here are some pics of the engine bay getting paitned. i figured id just stick with black so i dont have to add a top coat.
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if you look very closely you can see tinyyyyyyyyy specs, i have no clue what its from and its pushing me from finishing the engine bay.. im not happy with the tiny dots so im holding off till i can figure out how to get rid of them....

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