Hi all
Thank you very much again for all your kind comments
Not much really visible done this week, as it was more or less only sanding / polishing the clear I applied a few weeks ago and apply clear to parts I always forgot to clear coat in the first two occasions… 🙄
First of all the wheels could be completed. I had to wait, because the calipers were amongst the parts I always forgot to clear coat. I think It would have been better I had done something different than modelling yesterday, as it just wasn’t my day…. So I was not too surprised when I looked at the picture today and saw that the front calipers are installed quite skew…
The part covering the engine bay has been clear coated matte. Now I only have to paint some gloss black (and maybe some metallic) accents to finish this one.
And finally I sanded, polished and assembled the engine hood. While sanding with 6000 grit I suddenly noticed some kind of bulge (you can see it in the lower right part in the picture). As I usually see the paint getting thinner and disappear eventually when sanding, I was kind of puzzled, what this was and sanded very careful over this spot with the finer grades. While polishing, the part suddenly started to feel soggy. That’s when I realized that it wasn’t only the paint, but the whole part had broken… Somehow this particular part made problems from start to end. Fortunately I could stabilize it by attaching it to the lower (black) part. This also made it less obvious, so I’ll leave it that way. If it will disturb me too much once finished, I’ll think of something I could lay over it (like for example a baseball cap somebody put there).
That’s it for this week. I hope that I’ll find some time over Christmas to sand and polish the body (and hopefully without breaking anything…). As soon as the sanding and polishing will be finished, there is more or less only assembly work to do, as all the subassemblies are finished or almost finished. Urs