China XS, Shed to shiner

[Grant]

So was up at the crack of dawn ready to crack on with the boot... Please excuse the crap phone pictures

So started the day with this:


Gave it a good key with some 40 grit paper, to give me this:


And then fillered the holes...


Sanded it all back, working down the grades of paper, and then a heavy(ish) coat of filler primer:


Wet and dry'd the area to get it nice and smooth


Then gave it some grey primer and checked for imperfections with the torch:


Whilst checking for imperfections, I found another dink, so that got filled:


Then primered, and wet and dry'd again:


First coat of china blue, not the grey can still be seen in the middle. Its best no to go too crazy or you end up waiting yonks for paint to dry.


Then second. The grey that you can now see is just reflections of stuff i had on the floor.:


And finally in lacquer:



Just gonna let it go off overnight again, and then attack it with the machine mop. Not looking forward to blening old lacqer to new, but hey ho. It will just take a bit of time.
I am intending to put this into a guide eventually for blending and filling paintwork, but if anyone gets round to it before me, and wants to use these pics, feel free...


In other news my laguna keycard start went up shit creek the other day, so took it apart to see what was going on...


The micro switch that activates the ignition when the card is inserted had come free of the mount. My fault for just superglueing it lol. So a hell of a lot of plastic welding later, it looked like this:



Cant see that coming free in a rush.

Going to attack my roof with the machine mop later if the weather clears up, then maybe get a crack on with sound deadening with my bitumen that turned up!