Thread: 51 MG restoration.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

So what about the fluff and bugs in the base from painting outside?
Appreciate the help btw Ness.

Can’t help yah there

Find a friend with a garage for an afternoon

Well in real life, none of my friends would do what I do in my garage so that won’t work…
Plan b is time the work around rain to knock down the pollen, and bugs.

Now to let it cure and see if I came close enough on my pearl count.
Seeing as how my original mix was like 3 grams of pearl to 700 ml of clear I had to sort of guess at the amount for 150ml of clear.
Last accurate scale I had that could measure less than a gram was traded for a lava lamp years ago. Still have the lamp though so that’s cool..hehe.
So here with one of the original painted panels beside. It feels like I may have more pearl in the new paint, but hopefully it’ll blend after hitting it back through the grits with the compound steps.

That there is the pearly gates!

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Well in real life, none of my friends would do what I do in my garage so that won’t work…
Plan b is time the work around rain to knock down the pollen, and bugs.

Now to let it cure and see if I came close enough on my pearl count.
Seeing as how my original mix was like 3 grams of pearl to 700 ml of clear I had to sort of guess at the amount for 150ml of clear.
Last accurate scale I had that could measure less than a gram was traded for a lava lamp years ago. Still have the lamp though so that’s cool..hehe.
So here with one of the original painted panels beside. It feels like I may have more pearl in the new paint, but hopefully it’ll blend after hitting it back through the grits with the compound steps.

Somethings wrong Mike! Your paint has all those little white blemishes in it. Looks like you'll have to sand everything back down and start over!

I think the white ones will wash off John, hope so.
It’s the lil green ones I wanna keep!

Sure it's not exactly the same. But I think it's close enough. Nice work getting that close Mike. And I no longer have one of those scales anymore either. I think I traded it for a bag of .........

Hell yea, good enough...Let's GO!