[rex-b16a]

When I saw your post on Jan 20th or so and you said "all the welding is done so just need to body work and should get paint in the next month" I thought....yeah right I know how this goes. Let's see if this car gets paint in a month lol. Not making fun just saying I've been there. All these people that say they built their cars but didn't do any of the bodywork and just dropped it off at a shop have no idea how hard it is to do yourself. Seems like you don't have long to go but doing the bodywork for me seemed like the hardest part of my entire build! Props for you actually doing your own work on the body! Take your time. When in doubt put another coat of primer and block it out again. Bodywork makes the paint job. My bay took as long alone for the shave and bodywork as the outside of the car. You will appreciate the car so much more actually doing all this yourself. Everytime I wash and wax my car I appreciate the finish knowing that my hands went over every inch of my car over and over to finally create this finish and it really feels good. I don't undertand how some people can say "built not bought" when they hauled their car off to a bodyshop and "paid" or "bought" to have someone else bodywork and paint the entire car lol.

BTW, putting a huge skim coat of filler over a panel like you did on your hood really sucks to sand off but in the end usually saves time and is the best way to do it. If you try to just put filler on small spots at a time you will keep chasing all over the panel and doing the panel several times over(guess how I found this out). Skim coat it and block it all back out. You are doing right. It looks like a lot of filler but 95% ends up back on the floor. Look through my build and you can see when I sanded my hood off and there is a pile of filler on my garage floor lol!

Keep it up!

 

[rex-b16a]

Yeah man you gotta set goals. I know I pushed a lot of goals back on my build. Planned to have mine buttoned up and back on the road last March or so and it didn't happen until August lol. I took 4 1/2 years to finish my total build. The main thing is just keep pushing forward and see it through till the finish!

BTW, when I started a build thread and didn't think many people were interested it didn't matter to me. A build thread is a great organized place to keep a journal of your build to look back on for yourself.

 

[rex-b16a]

Nice job! Keep it up!