June 8, 2007 - The painting is done.
Well, almost. I forgot to do the headlight covers and the gas cap cover. But those can wait.
The end result was pretty good. I did the top coats in two sessions. The parts in the second session (the big obvious surfaces such as the top, hood and trunk) didn't turn out that well. I think I laid down too thin a layer of paint and it didn't get glossy. You can see on the hardtop that the edges are quite nice, but the top is just dull. The edges got about twice as much paint as I hit them first to make sure they got full coverage, then they got covered in the sweeps for the body of the part.
It's not a big problem. This picture exaggerates it and it's under fluorescent lights, always the toughest test. In the sun and at speed, I think it will look just fine.
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