Actually Harry I cheat a little. My working week is 4 x 10 hour shifts Monday through Thursday so my weekend is Friday through Sunday. I do however have to travel from SE Sydney to SW Sydney (the whole length M5 + a bit each end) to get to the shed where my SIIb is stored, which takes over an hour off each day's work.Quote:
Originally Posted by harryj
When it comes to ground up restorations, my 1951 ex-RACQ 80" is catching up to your SIIa, having been started in 2004 and hasn't been touched since 2008. I seem to have lost interest in that one, sad really as it only needs it's body re-painted and refitted.
This weekend it was more moving, but I have acquired a long term loan of some workshop equipment like a light gauge sheet metal guilotine/bending brake, bench grinder and linisher. The bending brake will be very useful for some of the missing bits on the gun buggy.
Friday was relatively unsuccessful, I went to AutoBarn to get some SIIb Land Rover bronze green in a spray can. When I tried to apply it was a very poor match, more emerald/lime green than the OEM bronze green I was expecting. As I said elsewhere, I should have realised it was wrong when they said it matched Landrover 1959-1989 when we know the SII was deep bronze green and the later SIIa particularly 1967-1971 a lighter bronze green colour and different to the SIII bronze green.
I then went elsewhere to get colour mixed up to match SADF brown, I had chosen BSC 4800:08 B 21 "Antelope" but accidently asked for 04 B 21 "Sable" and they mixed the colour from the BSC:5200 instead of the BSC 4800 and the resulting colour is far too light. (Even for the sable which should have been acceptable as well.)
Today I've been geting the clour charts printed onto photographic paper and comparing them to photographs I've taken myself and the BSC codes should be correct so I've no idea what's going wrong. Looks like another trip to Minto on Friday.
