The Spousal Avoidance Unit build

[flat6_musik]

That's nuts!.....and I'm digging the hell out of it!!

The 4 heavy coats of clear filled with Roth Snocaine metal flake.

LOL

[hrm2k]

Thanks for the encouragement. The Snowcaine metal flake just didn't have the look so I went with just gold metal flake. I'm hoping to have it on the road by spring

[joelsplace]

It reminds me of motorcycle helmets, hot tubs and boats of the 70s.

[hrm2k]

Thank You !!!!!

70's show car vibe is what I was heading towards

[hrm2k]

I’m gonna take a couple of days off so I flipped the circuit breakers on the compressor and the hot water heater. Shut off the water , drained the pipes. When I turned around in the bathroom door, this is what I saw in the room with no lights on.

Still more to do but I am digging what I am seeing

[County98]

That's gonna be cool. Looks good and a ton of work for sure.

I'm not a painter, but flake is very sensitive to the direction it lays down. May just have areas of flake that laid down at a little different angle and reflects light differently.

[hrm2k]

Thanks Shane,
I'm using Dupli Color Paint Shop lacquer. Instead of painting normally, I am fogging on the clear with the metal flake in the clear. It takes a lot more paint and time. I figure that I have about 75 to80% of the white color covered at this pint. MAybe 4 more coats of flake and and then bury it all in lots of clear so I can cut and buff.

[hrm2k]

I changed the method of applying the metal flake on the Corvair. I have been using a wet application. Today I tried a dry flake application. Turns out to be a 2 person job. But it does work well. These pictures are not of finished product. The inside of the trunk lids was about 25% covered until today. I’m pretty stoked.

[hrm2k]

I have always had a thing for heavy metal flake. I used a .008 flake on the car to this point. The dry flake process allows me to use some heavier flake.
Guess what I brought to the garage this morning
Inside the jar lid is .015 flake against already sprayed .008

[hrm2k]

Kind of slowing down again but this is what it looked like this afternoon, Wednesday March 2nd

[hrm2k]

V8 and performance Vair get together in Dayton Ohio

[bbodie52]

I found it!!

[doug6423]

I was there too. We should have had an introduction of who each person was on the forums so we could put a face with the user id.

Good event! Even though I didn't win it, thanks to Seth Emerson for donating a brand new distributor!

[hrm2k]

There was about 5 guys there that I recognized from about 5 years ago.
I think the idea of introducing everyone would be a good idea

[hrm2k]

As of this afternoon

[hrm2k]

The flake is done !!!! What a stupid idea…..actually, many stupid ideas went into this. Tomorrow, I start adding the clear……lots and lots of clear