ADES GARAGE V2! **now with pics! **

looking good mate...

getting hard to beleive that theres still a nova under there lol

Monday 29/10/2007
Was working this weekend but managed a few hours on the bonnet after work. Spent most of the time sculpting the 2 lines to run evenily (an absolute biatch)
Tonight though I finally got it to a stage where I could give it a coat of primer. This will allow me to assess the work to date as well as tidy it up a bit - letting me see where I need to work on next.

Heres what it looked like prior to priming...(this image was prior to the bonnet being smoothed over as well)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../bonnet045.jpg

This is how it looks now after the lines have been started and the 1st coat of primer is on -

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp6.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp9.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp8.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp7.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/danga/bp3.jpg

Primer hides a miltitude of sins (especially in these pics) - theyre not as nice as they look.

Next step is to dust the whole surface with a speckle coat of black paint then give it a light sand to see where the dips and flat areas are. Then I need to continue working on the 2 lines - get them nice and even.Theres some depth issues I need to address which can be seen in a couple of the pics.

Once the tops done I then need to work on the underside - At the moment one sides slightly higher than the other caused by an uneven underside.

I'll try over the next day or so get a draft with the grill and bumper on the front - give an idea of what it will look like...

woah! that really pulls it together, this will be amazing when finished. Just a note on the bonnet tho, don't you want to strenghten the underside first and then level it?

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Originally Posted by Ash

You do reliese it needs to be RWD V8 powered now tho... lol

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BTW, I'll settle on a 2.5 V6, come on - it needs a 'meaty' engine :rock:

Fook Ade! That bonnet does look bloody good mate!!

P.S. Its really starting to look like a Vectra from the front lol

Ade mate my hat goes off to you! 110% respect, your work looks amazing, and im well impressed your still going at it all this time later.

BUT (theres always a but!) for me it is starting to resemble a vectra a little bit too much for my liking..:p ;)

well done though mate.

Scott

Looks pretty cool, good work Ade :D

lol at the vectra comments - HOPEFULLY it wont!

Re the underside - yes it will be strengthened - remember the above bonnet is a master from which an entire fibreglass skin will be taken. The skin will cover the WHOLE bonnet front to back incliding sides - there will be an underside section reinforced and rivitted top the existing nova lip. you can see the bonnet I'll use in one of the above pics (white one).

Spent most of tonight cleaning up the 2 bonnet lines - one of them was out a few mil.

Just a qeustion, are you planning on doing something just as radical for the rear aswell?

you'll need to look back several pages re the rear end - but yes. Currently have a nova boot smoothed with a big circle cut in the middle where a VW (which will be rebranded to a VAUX) badge will sit but the badge will lift up to open the boot like the new style Golf's.

see here - http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthr...=33653&page=30

and here - http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthr...=33653&page=37

Saturday 3/11/07
Spent the last few days smoothing the imperfections out of the bonnet (most of the primer in the above picks has been sanded away from the front now).
Cleaned up and balanced both of the bonnet lines so they are now exactly paralell, the same height and the same distance from the edge.
Started work on the underside of the bonnet - cleaned up the area between the bonnet and the grill/light tops and started to smooth the underneath that joins on to the existing bonnet.
Fitted both wings to ensure they still line up and cleaned up the plastecine on the passenger wing to match the bonnet - smoothed it ready for casting.
Added custom clips to support the "V" grill

and managed to slice my finger length ways on a piece of metal. Have a nice deep 1" gash running from the finger nail to the 1st joint on the edge. Not sore but bled like feck!

I'll take some pick tomorrow - after I've spent the day with the wife at a horse show shes competing in...