Build Thread: 1951 F1
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I use to paint F-14 Tomcats when I was in the Navy. That's what started my painting..I am still no expert, but I am not trying to impress anyone but myself. It is certainly a rewarding task.
And doing your own work is ten times cheaper than paying somebody else
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Right there might be your ticket!
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Bhd6th, check out Eastwood, online. They have some very good automotive paints for a reasonable price (compared to the local auto paint places around here). They also have everything else for paint and body work and then some. Eastwood - Auto Body Repair Tools | MIG Welder | TIG Welder | Plasma Cutter | Auto Body Supplies & Accessories
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Actually we didn't repaint entire planes. usually just touch ups. but the colors were always a cool thing. shortly after I got out, they all lost there colors and gloss...flat and bluish grey are harder to detect...They were/are some wicked planes. I miss it.! Talk about the ultimate hod rod!
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Humph. My flatty puts out more power than THAT thing. stick a prop on the rear, I could fly upside down too! you know the fifties were known as an aero-dynamic era! all those curves and soft lines!
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Progress today! one fender and frame section sanded and undercoated (NASTY JOB)
old headliner (and mouse nests out)
cab interior painted black
more to come, but the rest of today is changing buddies oil for som $$$ to get paint or a rear end!
old headliner (and mouse nests out)
cab interior painted black
more to come, but the rest of today is changing buddies oil for som $$$ to get paint or a rear end!
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work work work, all day long! heres what I got done this weekend between waking up and heading out for the night shift of pushing little kids down a big snowy hill (snow tubing park)
bumpers off again, more sanding and priming and sanding again to come. also, PULLING TEETH! going to do the grille black along with fenders.
next: prepping rear fenders. first round of sanding and bondo, check. pretty good condition here, just need to man up and clean/coat the fender insides. hate pulling rust out of the hair for hours.
many colors of paint on these old teeth I pulled out
painted inside and out:
anybody know where i could find a stock exhaust manifold? my passenger side is cracked bad and stinks/carbons up the works under the hood. also makes an annoying sound. see the big crack at the flange? what you dont see is the inch long, eighth inch wide hole on the bottom.
bumpers off again, more sanding and priming and sanding again to come. also, PULLING TEETH! going to do the grille black along with fenders.
next: prepping rear fenders. first round of sanding and bondo, check. pretty good condition here, just need to man up and clean/coat the fender insides. hate pulling rust out of the hair for hours.
many colors of paint on these old teeth I pulled out
painted inside and out:
anybody know where i could find a stock exhaust manifold? my passenger side is cracked bad and stinks/carbons up the works under the hood. also makes an annoying sound. see the big crack at the flange? what you dont see is the inch long, eighth inch wide hole on the bottom.