This weekend I was busy with a marriage conference at my church among other things so I didn't have a chance to work on the Mustang, but my dad and brother have spent a lot of time getting the car prepped for paint. They even spent the afternoon painting all of the jams and interior so that we can put the car back together for to shoot the exterior all together. They painted underneath the hood as well as the backside of things like the headlight extensions and fender extensions. My brother was kind enough to take some pictures with his very old phone.
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| Underside of Hood Painted |
As you can see below, they painted the backside of the rear fender extensions as well as the headlight extensions. They also painted the back of the front valence, stone deflector, the headlight buckets, and the lower grille support.
Here is a shot of the passenger side headlight bucket in the sunlight. It looks great. I'm excited to put it together on the car.
the door itself was also sprayed the same color as the outside of the car and will have white interior door panels that will lay across it once the interior is purchased and installed.
Since they were painting the area under the rear fender extensions, they went ahead and pulled the paint across the rear tail panel to see how it would lay down. From the picture below, it looks like it laid down pretty well. We'll color sand it in order to shoot a fresh coat across the top to blend it with the rest of the car when we shoot the two stage with pearl.
The day color starts going on the body is a watershed event in my book. Congrats. BTW, what paint product and type are you using--base/clear--single stage--PPG--DuPont? You're getting there...and sooner than I will be too.
ReplyDeleteThe paint that was laid down was a single stage that was left over from my first Mustang. We'll be shooting the entire car with a base/clear by 4th Dimension.
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