After a big session of self doubt, I got my self stuck into researching sanding again and qiuckly remembered I had no choice but to up the size/s of my sanding blocks to get close to a finish I'm happy with. So after a quick rumage through one of the sheds I not only found some lovely blocks I also found a roll of 180g sand paper, giving me both 80g & 180g on a roll so I'm no longer held back by the size of paper/sanding block, I could now get on with some serious (level & even) shaping.
Yay.
After a few sessions out there the results are really shaping up (bum,bum ! ) Feeling much better with the roof curves as I have no roof gutter to hide behind and that dam roof is actually taking shape as well. Poor thing, that was in a really bad state at the begining and far worse than it looked in any of the pictures.
So still no pictures and probably not for a while yet, as thin as I'm getting the filler on a finished sand I still keep finding low spots.
Found out a full body prep and spray is approx 1000 hours, I felt a bit better with this knowledge as I'm expecting the time spent spraying to be only 20-30 ish hours, so I possibly still have hours to do before breaking that marker. Good job to as I still haven't even looked at the doors yet, but that is looming with the need to temp hang them and check body panel alignment then tweek that as well whilst we can.
Lastely the pace of work has changed due to being out in the open right next to a path and a shop at the end of that path. We will just say a mini is an old car and many are fond of them, so I have been told by a few! Bless, the distraction is actually welcome most of the time but doesn't speed things up any.
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