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Atom's Amazon Wagon Project Update Thread

Mental note, don’t leave the gel coat tip in the primer gun. Good thing this needs to be knocked back a bunch still.

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I only had it roughed in with 36g, but the weather this week is spotty, so I needed primer on it today. Pretty much the whole quarter has at least a skim of filler on it, but I didn’t have to “sculpt” anything, so I’m good with it. Still need to mess with the transition between the upper radius and the flat, but I think it was that way before as well. Not bad for another “driveway shop” project.
 
K so the plan now is for you to take a one-week vacation to a Portland suburb in the next 13 months. Not at all to paint. Nope.
 
Dude. I haven't been keeping up with this project lately. Holy ****. What a rollercoaster.
But as always, excellent work! I still don't quite understand how you manage to produce such quality in your driveway. I have a 4 car garage and I can't do half as much as you lol
 
It’s a rental home. With a truncated timeline and rain in the foreseeable future forecast (just say NO to alliteration) I’m borrowing some shop space through the weekend.

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If I can remember, I’ll set up the GoPro and do some time lapse stuff
 
If you want to give input, you’ve got until 6:30 AM PST tomorrow. I’ll be setting up a go pro doing time lapse photos. Do you want really wide angle (like gets almost all of the shop), medium side view (mostly just the car) or more from the front back? I’m only gonna set it up once and leave it for the next batch of days. Except to download when it gets full.
 
I’ll probably try a couple different shots over the next couple days. Halfway through day one and most people wanted something mid range with just the car. I’ll look at the footage tonight and adjust tomorrow.
 
Well, I’ll work on editing and uploading the time lapse when I get home, but I put ten seconds between captures and it’s really choppy and goes fast. I’ll reset it to one second for tomorrow.

Only thing I took pictures of was pinching the door to gain clearance where the E30 jamb overlaps.

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It was actually touching before and the door wasn’t all the way closed.

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Last night I downloaded the video, found out the video editing software I have access to doesn’t do playback speed editing. I find another editing software, download it, edit the video (25% speed is just about right), add music and go to save it and get a “you’re using the free trial version. There’ll be a giant watermark across your video and it’ll only play half the music unless you pay $60” message!! Fuuuuu. Had the wife download a different editing software today, so I will try again.

Set up the GoPro today with one second intervals, hit start and get to work. Go through the whole day. Shut everything down and go to turn off the GoPro. Unresponsive to anything. Eventually it says “file restored”, but only shows a one second video. Didn’t record any of today. Figured I’d have video, so I didn’t take many pics. Here is what I got.

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Two days in and only one side body worked. Slow goings, but still progress. This was the worst side as well. Gaps aren’t show car tight, but much closer to even than they were. Tomorrow’s another day.
 
You are making fast progress and it's cool to see what photos you did manage to take. That side of the car is looking great. Nice choice on the new color too; it should really compliment the red interior.
 
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