[Custom] Before and After Sanding

Illustration for article titled [Custom] Before and After Sanding

Good morning everyone! I have been working slowly but surely on a 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Radford shootingbrake (which you would know if you followed me on Instagram). I got inspired thanks to ZTP’s Let’s Play a Game episode on wagons, so I had to start right away!

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I’ll need to take some more progress pics, but here is a quick update with the roof on, puttied up, and finally sanded. The roof was kindly donated by a little MBX Austin Mini that happened to be the exact width (and length) necessary, barely any trimming required!

Before sanding:

Illustration for article titled [Custom] Before and After Sanding
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And after:

Illustration for article titled [Custom] Before and After Sanding
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Illustration for article titled [Custom] Before and After Sanding

She is ready for paint now. What color should I go for? Classic BRG? Silver? A color Hot Wheels has not done yet? White perhaps? What outlandish color would look good?

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Also, this might have to be a next project, a bumper deleted rac(e)y version. <Clarkson voice> My GOD.</Clarkson voice>

Illustration for article titled [Custom] Before and After Sanding