Ivan's coupe: roof stuccowork

[Ivan141]

After complaining about the cold weather since basically christmas we finally got some warmer temperatures (only about a 30 deg.C rise in a week).
I decided to take the day off and make the pilgrimage to the shed to get some shipoopie done.

The raptor liner hadnt quite warmed up as much as the weather had, so I chucked the bottles in hot water to get the stuff a bit less gooey.


Health and safety advice kids: 2k products with isocyanate hardeners are potentially lethal, so protect yourself. I built this little contraption to supply me with breathable outside air. Basically a 1700W vacuum cleaner pump strapped to a HEPA filter, connected to a modified snorkelmask with a 3d printed adapter. This thing chooches away outside, far away from me and the polluted air.


First 3 bottles went on the underbody through a 'schultz' gun (silly americanized name that sounds like a crappy translation of the german schutz). This gives it some texture, which I dont mind as it camouflages my patchwork body a bit.





I like this shot a lot: (note the new LED tube lighting I installed last saturday.. SUCH an improvement, can recommend the upgrade if you still have TL).


Hit the back panel as well since it sits out of sight and likes to rust.


The engine bay was shot with an HVLP primer gun (2mm) to get as flat of a surface finish as possible. I intentionally masked off the top part, it will be shot with regular paint to avoid my chassis nr from filling in by accident.



I think I'm going to order up another batch of Raptor liner to do the inside with.. I like the finish with the HVLP gun and it will also act like sound deadening. Weight saving is not a priority. Will need a new HVLP gun though, wrecked my brand new one while taking it apart for cleaning...FML. Lucky it was not an expensive one.