Great quality work and professional outcome , it is amazing what good results you can achieve with hand painting .Many years ago I found a close match to the Surf Blue Mini I owned as a young lad using a Woolworths paint called Peacock Blue .Just a wing was meant to be painted and ended up doing the entire car with an impressive outcome- no one ever guessed !.

Great effort! Nothing like a (silly?) deadline to focus the mind and the work. Looking forward to the next bit - or the Classic Car Run. Les

That looks a good job. 😁 I've welded ADO16 sills in the past by draining the fluids and rolling the whole car on its side, on a double mattress ! 😂

My very first car back in the late 60’s was an Austin A30 in dark green, not my favourite colour, so decided to hand repaint it in black with a cream roof, bonnet and boot, using proper brushing cellulose. My father was a painter and decorator who’d done his apprenticeship pre WW2, so he did the cream, I did the black! His paint looked like glass, mine looked as if it had been applied with a trowel! I rubbed it down and tried again, actually made it worse, with more runs than England get in a test match! In the end father re did it! Can’t beat experience!

Well done enjoyed the video and the colour match was good looking forward to the next video

Those repairs look great, and the 'for now' paint job looks amazing!

When I worked in a garage (in 1960s) we had an old painter who had been trained in a RR coach-builder’s shop. He could brush paint so good it looked like it had been sprayed. We had a customer (Lenton Transport) who always had their Lorries hand/brush painted Lenton Green. Special brushing cellulose of course, but with his painting and the signwriter’s gold lining and artwork (all very old school) the Bedford trucks looked amazing! Your work looks really good. I hope we’re going to see something of the event you’ve entered it for. Les

@iandeumayne-jones1557

5 күн бұрын

It's a lost skill that's for sure.

That’s coming along nicely. You’re doing well. Good idea to give yourself a deadline

Paint match is looking very good considering. What mix to thinners do you use to be able to brush cellulose effectively because as you mentioned it dries so quickly?

@whatsintheworkshop4478

7 күн бұрын

Thanks. As luck would have it, it was a fairly thin paint, so with brush it was perfect as wes, no thinners required.

Could you flip it on its side on a mattress instead ? Its looking good

@whatsintheworkshop4478

7 күн бұрын

If it didn't have an engine in, maybe, but it's a bit heavy for that!

@russthebiker

7 күн бұрын

@@whatsintheworkshop4478 aaah forgot that I cheated and bought a nice rotisserie No more laying under cars for me The bigger one you can leave the engine in ,but drain the fluids obv 😄 It's looking really good and you have saved a rare car

p.s. - what idiot drilled the glovebox lid to install a clock? 😮

@whatsintheworkshop4478

6 күн бұрын

I know! It doesn't even work!

Love the work you do, my Father and i used to do that my best wishes to you from the Philippines ❤️👍😉😀😁🛺🇵🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿