Horseshoe No2 - Hydraulic & Buttons fitted

To make space in the bedroom [keeping the wife happy] I took the Horseshoe back out to the garage and fitted [bolted] the Hydraulic & the two Buttons back on. Then fitted the spacer and finally, pushed the location pegs into the holes on the Leg.

Leg No2, is now complete :)

Braided Hose's set No.2

With everything else I'd forgotten about my second set of Braided Hose's. I'd test fitted the securing screw into the hose ends to keep them in place in the Knurled Hose Fittings and then put them away in a storage box. So here they are masked up and ready for 'Brass' spraying.

Brass????? ....................Yes, brass.

Technically they should be a 'copper' colour, but I liked the colour and it will help to be one of the 'key items' to look out for when people see an R5 in picture on the internet lol.

And sprayed up.

The camera flash make's it look like the ends haven't been sprayed, but they have.

I then clear coated the hose and the Knurled end fittings.

R5-D4's Head 4.8 - Silver Neck Tape

Last night, 1.5hrs later, silver tape was cut, trimmed and applied around R5's neck.

R5-D4's Head 4.7 - clear spray coat

Tuesday night, I stripped R5 of all his eye 'sensors', Dome rods & motivator brackets. This was in preperation for clear coat spraying.

I was planning on doing this Wednesday, but remembered i wasn't going to be in work. Then Thursday I needed to finish off some silver detial work & remove parts from R5's body, ready it also to be clear sprayed up.

So today's the day. I applied masking tape to the inside of the Domes holes and using works spray booth, got to clear coat the Dome.

Photos to follow.......

Body Skin 5.4 - Silver groove painting & Clear coat

Hand painted the last recessed panels groove yesterday morning :)

I also touched up any other little bits, plus the inside face of the cut outs for the centre vents.

So today, I set up R5's body in the spray booth in work and applied clear spray all over!

Horseshoe No2 final white spray work

With all this spraying being done, I remembered to finish off the Horseshoe no2.

Satin White applied. then once dry, clear coat went on.

Body Skin 5.3 - White & Silver

So here is the final painting stage of R5's body.
Primer applied, left a day before lightly sanded.

Next came the white spray paint, using Plasti-Kote Satin White. Re-positioned mask off area before spraying up. Underside of body also needed touching up with white.

Wasn't 100% happy with the surface of the recessed panel, so after more sanding, I applied some more wood filler to smooth the surface. Once dried, this was re-sanded.

Then I re-re-masked off the body, this time along the edges of the front panel and Octagon Port. And sprayed white, one last time. Not the best pic.

Next I masked off the vents to be sprayed up with Plasti-Kote Silver.

Half hour later, silver vents complete......well, till I fit the grills.

R5 gets some peace and quiet from me.....

The work i had planned for tomorrows lunchtime on R5,will have to wait, lol. I forgot im going to Wembley tomorrow (half day in work). Going to watch England v Denmark with my young Son and his county football team :)

Oh well, an extra day for the painted parts to dry hard lol.