I'm still picking away at the paint. When I'm not chasing dirt bumps I'm chasing tiny scratches, but often both. Got it unmasked and probably .001% of the mess cleaned up.
Hats off to the guys who can take something like this, DA color sand and just bang out those kind of jobs. I tried doing that for less than a minute and hated it, it all happens too fast......a novice like myself needs time to really look and see what's happening in the moment. The upside is, I ended up liking the 1500 green film/DA paper alot better than the standard paper for hand sanding so that worked out.
So far everywhere I tried to rush the process didn't work at all, so....forget it....I will just take my time.
With the Menards temporary booth lights taken down, the color flop from the different K factor of the shop lights is really apparent.
Looks good Rich. Are you going to put the hood stripes back on? When I painted the Road Runner, I left the car on the rotisserie, and it made the job of wet sanding, and buffing WAY easier. You realize how big of land yachts these cars are after a day of wet sanding...
I may not use that hood/it's def not the best fitting one I've seen, but for the time being the tentative plan visually is probably best described as "GTX with heavy 6 pack road runner influence"
If I go to an air grabber style of hood later at some point, then I would be more open to putting the stripes back on.
Also, because now that I have experienced the difficulty of silver metallic paint (and now understand fully why so many painters hate it) the stripes would somewhat help hide any mismatch of the center of the hood. There would be a visual comparison area in the center of the cowl where mismatch could easily be seen, but it could be overlooked by most.
Black hood with some kind of a scoop is best plan for now.
Also considering '68 GTX side stripes for later, to further confuse the issue and upset the purists, but that's pretty far in the distance and just something to mess around with.
I like having stuff to just mess around with and experiment. Probably the most fun part of the hobby for me.
