brianp38dse

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• Jul 12, 2021

• #41

backinblack said:

So much for my union jack boxers, socks, and red and white dress

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We will reframe from the pics or it didnt happen on this one

 

backinblack

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• Jul 12, 2021

• #42

brianp38dse said:

We will reframe from the pics or it didnt happen on this one

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Wise choice

 

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omega1

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• Jul 13, 2021

• #43

Here's a before and after, ended up doing the part around the gear at the same time.

 

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marjon

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• Jul 13, 2021

• #44

That looks like a good result

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gold rover

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• Jul 13, 2021

• #45

omega1 said:

Here's a before and after, ended up doing the part around the gear at the same time.

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Looks nice. What colour did you go with?

 

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omega1

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• Jul 14, 2021

• #46

gold rover said:

Looks nice. What colour did you go with?

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Thanks. It is satin black. Just a normal spray can

 

backinblack

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• Jul 14, 2021

• #47

Now you've shamed me into doing my rear console

 

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omega1

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• Jul 14, 2021

• #48

Looks good! I need to do mine too, haven't looked in the back yet!

 

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omega1

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• Aug 4, 2021

• #49

So I've finished off the work on this, happy with the end result!

For anyone interested, I just completely sanded down the bits back to remove all of the peeling grey bits and then a few (3 or 4) coats of black satin spray paint (sanding down with 400 paper in between each coat).

Decided to go with satin lack as I'm changing many of the car bits to black.

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions!

 

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RangeRoller dt

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• Aug 4, 2021

• #50

gold rover said:

I'm looking at keeping my girl forever. Cos I loves her
Which means when the time comes for her to go to a new owner, I want her as original as possible

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By time it comes to the next owner it should be covered in brambles camouflaged in its environment .
such is the way

 

gold rover

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• Aug 4, 2021

• #51

RangeRoller dt said:

By time it comes to the next owner it should be covered in brambles camouflaged in its environment .
such is the way

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This is acceptable. At least she will still be original

 

RangeRoller dt

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• Aug 4, 2021

• #52

 

rnddave

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• Aug 5, 2021

• #53

Out of interest, I was looking at tidying up some of this horrible silver paint as well, I wasn't planning to go to these lengths though, I was thinking about just taking a heat source to the silver and helping peel it back to base plastic, I assumed it would be black anyway, what is it like when you take that silver off or is it just a sticky mess?

 

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omega1

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• Aug 5, 2021

• #54

rnddave said:

Out of interest, I was looking at tidying up some of this horrible silver paint as well, I wasn't planning to go to these lengths though, I was thinking about just taking a heat source to the silver and helping peel it back to base plastic, I assumed it would be black anyway, what is it like when you take that silver off or is it just a sticky mess?

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Underneath its a matt black, not sticky at all, once you've got the grey peel off it just needs sanding down a bit and the new paint goes on well, 3 or 4 coats seemed to do it.

The grey paint came off easy in parts, I found it useful to get a bit off amd then carefully use a razor blade and that shifted it quickly.

 

brianp38dse

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• Aug 5, 2021

• #55

Why is it they cant just make the panels out of a solid colour it only ends up messy