Outlaw Anglia - took it racing & lifted the wheels!

Love updates to this thread.

^^^^^lol!^^^^^

needs at least 4 or 6 more coats yet with wet sanding in between. 2 coats a night 3 nights to flat down............

You're mad but the results will be (even more) astonishing.

Thanks for the compliments everyone.

Unmasked it first before flatting,



Today saw more painting, as it did not matter if the body got overspray on it as it was going to be flatted down later.
The first bit was my column shroud, this was originally satin black, but it had already got marked and after unwrapping it I did not like that finish after all, so it's now going gloss black.



Next up were two of the inner window frames, I had painted all of these earlier but these two had a couple of issues in the finish, so I painted them again.





Also painted the front window inner finisher, this has been hanging around for ages waiting to be done.



And lastly the boring but necessary flatting of the body begins again.

the saint, have, a, patience of you,

Bit of a mare in the garage today, was about to finish painting the shell, got it all prepped and the compressor decides it wont run
Managed to get it running again after stripping half of it without finding any faults.
Tack ragged the body, mixed the paint, loaded the gun and started painting......and stopped. Gun was pulsing the paint, tried all sorts with it as I thought it was not breathing properly through the vent hole as paint was coming out of it (not normal on this gun) so quite messy!
Ended up stripping the gun completely and found a tiny obstruction in the tip.

In the meantime there was paint curing on the car so it was a quick load up again and get spraying. Got the first coat on but it really was not looking good, very orange peely and a bit dry, not happy with it at all, and I got a run on the lower rear panel

Thinned the mix down a bit more for the second coat and shot that on, but compressor packed up again 3/4 of the way through luckily there was enough pressure in the tank to finish without losing pressure at the gun.

At least the second coat went on really nicely, flowed out much better for a pretty good gloss all over.

I'll quickly block the run in the rear valence tomorrow and just blow that section while the paint is still green.

Started looking into the compressor issue, turns out it was a sticking pressure switch, it was switching the power but not releasing the pressure so the motor was loading and tripping the safety.

Anyway, finished body

thats a lot of messing about but what a finish on that paint nice work sir

Started polishing the cage yesterday Jon, that's fun as it's all by hand!

It's not the polishing, but the flatting down thats tedious, if you don't get all the sanding scratches out it does not matter how shiny you get it, it still will look scratched!

Thanks Carl,
Been polishing the cage today, but had a quick play on the roof which has the worst orange peel;


And after a quick flat and polish ;