"мишка" is Ukranian and means mouse/mousy in a sense of cute lil' rodent. Comrade Car's wants to let everybody know that he is absolutely a friend of furry little animals, but definitely does not identify as a toilet with wheels. (At least this explained the strong scent that he was giving off initially.)
Ironically it wasn't the worst idea anyway, because the headliner was very filthy and it didn't exactly help that when painting the interior I touched it with the paint roller in one or two spots. Also the insulation between roof and liner was one hell of a moisture trap.
To be honest, I haven't regretted my decision to paint the car with a roller very often, but when painting that roof and hitting all those nooks and crannies, yep I paid for quite a few sins.
Ironically painting the doors and bonnet was a much more simple and lots quicker job than doing that roof.
As I might have pointed out one or two times before the bodyshop that repaired old Comrade must have been proper bondo-artists. I on the contrary, belong much more to the school of no-bondo-and-show-off-those-welds. (At least on a car like the Comrade.) But as the tailgate had been leaking like a sieve, a bit of TIG-magic was due.
It may not look like it had improved a single bit, but now the whole seam is fully welded and the max. difference between high and low spots after a the slightest bit of touch up with a flap wheel was less than one milimeter.
And with a bit of paint the weld is almost invisible.
<Insert big-butt-joke above>
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