Did a little more dowelling on the right-hand boot door this morning. This afternoon I cleaned out the boot and hovered the dust out then mixed a batch of brown paint to match the boot colour. The recipe is 3.5:1 JCB Yellow and my existing brown mix, of which I should have enough to do the cab and bits of the floor. I started painting the boot interior with this and it looks pretty good.
The last week has been spent continuing to prepare the boot interior for painting and also preparing, priming and painting the new timber around the the base of the rear window. The interior upper corner panels around the rear seat, the timber around the rear window and the lower panels in the boot where they are above the seat platform were undercoated then given two coats of Tahiti blue. The undercoat I created from dark grey undercoat mixed with some generic mid-blue coach enamel, however it came out a bit dark so I think I’ll mix in some white undercoat next time. I also started work on the left-hand boot door, removing the skin, filling holes with dowel and replacing wood where necessary. This is now ready for primer. The right-hand door needs a little more attention to holes but is otherwise ready for skinning once the metalwork has been reattached.
The last few days have been about getting the boot ready for paint. Making adjustments to the right-hand door opening including the recess in the boot floor for the catch and making sure the door actually fits in the opening. Next I prepared the aluminium panel that fits below the boot opening, generally straightening and tapping out the various dents. I gave it a coat of primer and workshop grey on the inner face where it is in contact with the frame. The steel sill has a flange that fits over this, so this panel has to go on in sequence before I can install the lino in the boot. Next I sanded the blue inner corner panels next to the rear window as part of the preparation for painting the area around the rear window with Rover Tahiti blue. Finally I filled, sanded and primed the new woodwork below the rear window ready for painting.