Ha, after several weeks of occasional work - cutting, shaping and adjusting the Minor shell until it was spot on, today was paint day.
Okay, so perhaps it was false economy going through my stash of 30 year old car paint! It's fair to say, these old cans don't spray too well. I'd say I'd have done better by flicking spoonfuls of emulsion at the poor thing from ten paces!
Add to that, neither of the two cans marked 'Trafalgar Blue' (the colour of my old minor), actually turned out to be Trafalgar Blue. One of them was green and the other was certainly not Trafalgar!
So, choice of trying to rub all that down and start again or get creative... I got creative and chucked some silver glitter paint over the top.
But hell, how long does a shell last for anyways, and perhaps the runs in the paint will make it go faster? Ha!
If the paint ever dries this is going to be the ugliest car - ever!
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