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Oh the difference the clear coat makes!

When I am working the different base colors on any job, they are not shiny, the metallic isn't very visible, and it is easy to take pictures of.



Then once you add the shiny clear, things go nuts! [emoji12]

 

I've got some stuff lined up in the coming weeks this month. Mostly small things, tinting lights, clearcoating an old helmet that got some Sharpie artwork, and other stuff.

Also waiting on a couple bigger jobs... Might be doing a good bit of stuff on an F56, and a hood respray on an R53.

So stay tuned! [emoji12]

 

Got a couple better pictures, but I swear they are the lat ones...











In the sun...





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The stencil's are getting prepared to be cut out as I type this! [emoji12]

 

Today I've got paint drying, mirrors getting prep'ed, and other projects getting ready... Its going to be a few late nights to get some stuff done! [emoji12]

 

Well the Sky Blue candy just got sprayed on them... Next up is taking the remaining stencils off, and flaking the hell out of them with a True Blue .04mm flake! [emoji12]







Starting to get crazy! [emoji12]

 

Gotcha Vetsvette!

Thanks 00, and Erik!

Longest masking job EVER for something so small! Literally just got done! [emoji12]

 

Installed, and one HAPPY owner! [emoji2]













Pay no attention to her dirt... It gets washed tomorrow! [emoji12]

 

A while back I decided to try to turn my hobby into an actual business, and today is the day it hit the masses on FB! [emoji2]

If you're interested, please like and share! [emoji12]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1491293511165567/

 

This has been a great weekend for getting the shop off the ground! [emoji2]

I have got a few great leads, and some actual reserved slots going! Also want to thank everyone who has offered to donate parts! It is a good start on stuff to have available at the Dragon! [emoji2]

The project I am most excited about right now is a motorcycle helmet going to my gunner from Iraq in 2003! Well technically it will be going to his dad, but that is beside the point... Going with a Vietnam era K-pot helmet design, and will be getting started on it sometime during the holiday season! [emoji12]

I also found some time to prep some old steel, and get the podium for the rust sculpture lamp welded up!









Things got a little freaky for a bit in the garage getting the coating off of the spring, but I escaped with only minor injuries... [emoji12]

 

Clear coated a set of R56 headlights this morning...





Back to fab-ing up what is possibly going to be the craziest desk lamp EVER!

Hopefully Chris will let me take it to the Dragon as a display piece! [emoji12]

 

Today I got a random box of awesomeness from N2MINI!



The headlight rings can be painted and sold, the arch trim makes good color test panels, stickers can always get stuck to something, the random aluminum pieces can be used in ground up projects like the lamp, and the wooden MINI lettering can be used as a multitude of different things, but what the hell am I supposed to do with an old heater vent? [emoji12]

Well scrap metal is scrap metal! So even if I cant use it, its worth a couple cents in the next truckload that goes to the recycler!

Thank you for the donation, one persons junk, just might be somebody else's dream! [emoji2]

 

Just letting the clear dry now, then it's time to fire up the hot glue gun and start reassembling everything...

I will never paint another one of these, it has been nothing but problems since it was dropped off!

Heres how the signature stencil looks before the clearcoat...