Monday, February 2, 2009

Done spray painting

I've still been working on this for the past few days, but I haven't made any posts because I haven't really had anything to show or say. I've been spray painting the
undertray black. I finally ran out of paint today, thankfully while spraying the last coat of paint. Since I'm getting closer and closer to final assembly, I thought I'd start some finishing work today.

Here I'll be putting the carbon fiber decals on the inside of the seat


Seat with decals


I brush painted some areas of the car body as well. These heat shields were incredibly difficult to paint by hand, as they were scribed very shallowly out of the engine cowl. I think if I had to do this again, I might buy a scribing tool and scribe this area deeper to make it easier to paint.




I also painted black inside the monocoque


And inside the airbox


Last but not least, I painted the upper wishbones and steering arms black. I really didn't need to get a nice finish on this, as it will be covered by carbon fibers decals anyway, I just wanted to get a base coat of black for any of the areas the decals won't cover


Total: 68 h


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