{"id":137,"date":"2004-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:57:17","slug":"bel-air\/first-bit-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"First bit in &#8220;The Colour&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After painting with high build last weekend, I managed to sand through it while giving it a quick rub over for the top coat. I also had run out of paint, and with the new paint I got being a different colour grey, I decided to paint the entire firewall first.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/12\/PSFW_Painted.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"432\" alt=\"PSFW_Painted.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once that was painted, I left it to flash off before covering it in a coat of white as the topcoat needs white under it to get the colour. Once that was given long enough to flash I opened the new colour, mixed it and painted it. While I was washing up the gun, I looked back across the garage and thought I&#8217;d got green paint over the white doors, but on checking it was just the reflection from the paint. It&#8217;s bright. Very bright, and I love it. Hopefully I&#8217;ll get the body onto the chassis next weekend which will give me space to work on the Camaro when that arrives.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/12\/Firewall_PAINTED.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"330\" alt=\"Firewall_PAINTED.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After painting with high build last weekend, I managed to sand through it while giving it a quick rub over for the top coat. I also had run out of paint, and with the new paint I got being a different colour grey, I decided to paint the entire firewall first.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/12\/PSFW_Painted.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"432\" alt=\"PSFW_Painted.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once that was painted, I left it to flash off before covering it in a coat of white as the topcoat needs white under it to get the colour. Once that was given long enough to flash I opened the new colour, mixed it and painted it. While I was washing up the gun, I looked back across the garage and thought I&#8217;d got green paint over the white doors, but on checking it was just the reflection from the paint. It&#8217;s bright. Very bright, and I love it. Hopefully I&#8217;ll get the body onto the chassis next weekend which will give me space to work on the Camaro when that arrives.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/12\/Firewall_PAINTED.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"330\" alt=\"Firewall_PAINTED.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}