Not a build thread, but a REFURB thread.....

[youther]

Man I love silver!

Yeah I love the silver also.

[youther]

So all taped and ready the first layer of flames are painted on the car. There are some mistakes/bleed throughs and steve says that they will be fixed when he puts the next layer of flames on and he can cover the mistakes with the next set of flames.

[youther]

The same process goes for each layer. A lot of tape and a lot of time to do each set. With the second set steve covers up mistakes on the first set of flames, but there are mistakes with the second set also and steve says that he will cover them with the third and final set. I'm thinking to myself, how are you going to fix the third and final set of flame's mistakes.

I'm really disapointed because it has taken much longer than I expected and there is no way that it is going to be done in time for my son's senior prom.

This is how the car ends up looking. The flames look good from a distance, but up close they are an absolute mess. Very thick, tons of mistakes. Steve says that when he clears the car, it will blend the falmes and you will not be able to see the thickness of the flames.

Also there are still several problems with the silver that has been sanded back to primer. Steve says that he can spot paint those and the clear coat will blend those also.

[youther]

So the flames are on the car at this point. There are many other things that have occurred at this point. The principal has given me a key to the vo-tech so that we can come and go as we please. School is ending in just a few days, but we can still work on the car.

Now steve is going to try and "blend" the silver in areas that have been sanded to the primer. He covers them and it is very obvious that it's not going to matchup. I ask him about it and he says that the clear will cover it. At this point I'm thinking, "I don't know much about painting, but there is now way in this workd that a clear coat is going to make those spots blend."

Here is what one of the several spots lloked like. You can see to the right of the spot where it has already been covered once, and you can see the different color that it makes. You can also see in the door jam the type of other mistakes that were made with bleed throughs.