Paintwork finished

Finally after countless hours of wet sanding and polishing my paintwork is finally done. It´s nowhere near perfect, but considering it was painted in my garage and there was lots of imperfections  i´m very pleased with the result.

Here´s few before-shots. First is roof and all those white spots are dust and other trash.

 C-pillar was maybe the worst. Lots of orange peel and large drip in lacquer.

Door before wet sanding.

Here´s door after it is wet sanded with 2000 grid.

And here´s body after wet sanding and polishing.

Paintjob

Sanding...filler...sanding...primer....sanding...primer...sanding....sanding....sanding.....sanding.......


That´s how I have spend last few weeks. Not my favourite part of this project, but it needs to be done.

All parts that could be removed from body were painted in my work where we have a small paint booth and rest of the body was painted in my garage where I made my own DIY "paintbooth".

After primer was sanded it was time for basecoat and clearcoat. That was done by my friend, because I didn´t trust my painting skills. There is lot of dust and other imperfections in that new paint surface so I need to wet sand and polish whole car....that's nice,  more sanding for me. :)

Original color was 901 silver. Silver that I used is from Honda color chart, and is little bit more golden than original Datsun color. Color code is YR508M, Heather Mist.