Been a busy boy this week.
Its taken way too long to get together what I needed to get to the point where I could get some colour applied, but its finally started today.
I had to buy the necessary supplies to make it happen though and thats been an expensive road to go, although ultimately an extremely satisfying one.
New air hose, tack cloths for waterborne basecoat, air regulator and filter assembly, tapes and paint cups to fit the Sata amongst other bits and pieces.
Paint is Glasurit 90 line, made by BASF same as oem as far as I understand, although this is a waterborne basecoat which I've never used-until today and wasnt available when the Ur was produced in '83.
5 litres of Glasurit clear laquer, activators, thinners and base adjusters....expensive but in my opinion worth every penny now that I've experienced the system in use.
Friday afternoon saw some high build primer action on some areas that were bugging me and theyre soon to be worked over ready for some colour.
Red light zone.
Thats an IR heat lamp helping to flash the reducer and set the paint off.
I'd spent many hours on the scuttle area which was in a poor state paintwise.
I suppose if I'd been a lazy bastard I could have let it alone and left it black but no-way was that going the happen, body colour or sack the whole frigging job.
So with the scuttle prepped it got a healthy dose of glasurit primer and high build.
I wont bore you with all the minutiae of what I got up today and just let the engine bay photos talk to you.
Its quite hard to convey how absolutely glassy the clearcoat is on this now, the photos dont do it justice, its quite odd to see it looking like its just come out the gun and it appears wet even though its hardened enough to touch it.
