Been getting on with the body prep! I can see why body shops have to charge so much! this takes an age!
I started off using the dry guide coat!

and then got my new blocks out! woohoo!


Got flatting and straight away started to see some low areas beginning to appear!

Couple of low areas, but will catch them with some upol dolphin glaze! Then blocked the bottom half!

Not too bad! a couple of low areas but nothing too drastic! I then drew around the low areas with a pencil and filled over the top, this way the pencil will re-appear as I block down through the filler and give me a sign to slow down a bit!




All good! On to the roof and windscreen surround! again started off with the guide coat!

This guide coat is great stuff!

Just try not to drop it on the floor as it goes bloody everywhere!!

Some low spots around the wiper holes and some highs, so I gave the highs a bit of gentle persuasion with the small hammer and plastic chisel!
Out with the Dolphin! I marked the lows with a pencil again!


I then worked my way up the gutters and flatted them all the way to the rear tailgate.


Then on to the roof, I have been dreading this!

Straight away the lows begin to show!

This one is where I knocked a high back in, I dented it while welding when I spun the car on the spit and left a dolly in there!
Kept on going! Found a high here and went through to the epoxy!

Got it down as far as I think it should go, time for the Dolphin! Got the pencil out again!

There are quite a few low spots on this!

Yeah, probably put too much filler on there, made it hard work for myself, but got there in the end!

I then guide coated it again and blocked it back, just to check for any that I had missed!

again, probably overkill, but wanted to be sure!

All good! I then wheeled the car out and turned it around ready to attack the other side tomorrow! Plan is to get the shell all flatted and then get another coat or 2 of high build on it and block that back to flat, there are a couple of areas where I have gone through to metal, so will give them a touch up with some epoxy before priming!


Thanks for reading guys! 16 hours of sanding and flatting so far!