coming along nicely, I'm jealous. Mine seems to take for ever to be finished.

helps when you work with the person painting it, you can give them gentle reminders. While mine's getting done I ride a motorbike to work so I can say things like it was cold riding the bike this morning, be good to get that ute finished etc.

how come my piccy's always turn out fuzzy, I resize them in microsoft photo editor and they are taken on a digital 4.0 mp camera?????
Any help?????

its Cause your downsizing the picture to much.

sometimes when you compact the picture so much these ripples happen. i use "steckch and skew" in paint to downsize my pics, only some get ripples when i do to much

thanks for the tip, resized the extractor piccy using that method and came out much better.

Cheers

b120, thanks for the tip, I didn't know mspaint could do that.

I stopped using Microsoft Photo Editor some time ago for that reason: it uses a poor jpeg quality when resizing pictures (and there doesn't seem to be an option to change the quality level it uses). I have an old version, maybe the new one is better.

Looks good, but I still don't understand to this day why the light black paint is used. Is it to see all the imperfections or what? I thought the whole panel would have to be lightly sprayed in some glossy stuff to be able to really see it?

so when you rub it back you can see easily the imperfections as they stand out like dogs b*&ls. Primer is mostly light colour and guide coat is mostly dark = high contrast.