Managed to get a few hours on the bus today, flatted the roof with 600 paper and then beige grey was added




Going to leave it a week and then go onto the sides

Nice work!

Keep going, you're nearly there

Finally another update, had a busy few weeks decorating the nursery and house expecting our first child in April, so started to get the rest of the outside into primer, hardly any filler in the bus just where I fitted the new panels

Congratulations.....on both counts... (Well done that man and lady)
I am really pleased to hear that you are balancing the nesting instinct in both areas..
Well done you two...
Now the fun begins...

Managed to get a little more done, spent what felt like a lifetime flatting the high build and then decided to stay late

Nice...
Mask off now and top half to match the roof?
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Yeah I prob didn't need to paint the top red just wanted it how it would be originally

Looking good. I had wondered too whether to have the whole thing in red before putting the beige grey over the top as it would have been originally.

The vans still got loads of dents in it didn't want to start loading it with filler or new panels unnecessary, a lot of the paint will be getting removed don't want a super shiny bus

Still tempted...
I love a SWR all over kombi...
But willl play the cards I was dealt with...
So will be the same colourway...
SWR BG...
NICE...

Yeah all swr or swr with a bg roof only has grown on me but I want to standard

Nice.

Even more time on the bus got the rest of the shell painted today







Now thats done i want to re assemble all the suspension and refit so i can get the bus out of the garage so I've got some room to paint all the other panels.

Had a problem with the front beam, as its an early one it has bushes not bearings for the trailing arms and i need new ones, asked all the usual sellers and no one seems to stock them, noticed vwjim said about delrin bushes but he hasn't got any, spoke to my neighbour who reckons he can make some if i supply the material.

Cracking job, nothing more satisfying than doing it yourself in your own cave hats off to you. I'm a few weeks behind you for colour just at the final prep bits..

Agreed....
All your own work... Respect and credit to you...
I stripped what I could and scraped all the underseal off mine
I refurbished the interior panels and refitted these with the professionaly refinished Devon interior....
...and worked hard to earn the LSD to fund what I neither had the skills or the time to do....properly...
But I am proud of what I did do..

Oh and all the nerdy detail gathering and stash hunting too...
I enjoy that... working in project management, having been an ex researcher process and procurement person..