Today there's been a little more paint, mainly on the plinths and mirrors. The front bumper has been painted (again), and I will make a point of attaching both bumpers to the car properly so they don't get knocked off again. If I have to do any more bleeping sanding on them...
But enough about bumpers - lets talk plinths. When I bought Zippy, he only had one mirror - the driver's side. The Midas plinth was there, but it was blank with no mirror. I then had the delight of sourcing a passenger side mirror. For a Renault 14, some 30+ years after they ceased production. Amazingly I managed to get a LHD driver's side mirror and plinth from French eBay with no trouble.
Once I had sanded everything, I primed and painted it all, then once done, I did a test fit of everything to make sure it all fitted together properly. Driver's side? No problem. Passenger side? Nope. Not at all. Nuts. Rather than smash it with one of my 17 hammers (my anger management is getting better), I took a look at them side by side. To the untrained eye, they looked the same. But I am a Midas owner, and I am used to righting wrongs and making bodges less bodgey. When first built, the factory (or first owner - I don't know which) had trimmed a small but significant amount from the Renault plinth to fit the Midas. This of course had not been done on mine. So it was time for my best friend for Midas rebuilds, the Dremel. I marked out with masking tape where to cut and used a cutting disc on it, finishing it off with a sanding wheel. A bit of wet and dry later, it was hung up for yet more paint.
Finally, I used a great tip picked up on another forum for sorting all sorts of issues - when I unmasked the mirrors, I saw that the masking had lifted slightly at some stage, leaving a small amount of overspray on the mirror. Normally I would have contributed massively to the swear box and reached for the hammers, but I instead used an excellent (and cheap) solution. A razor blade. All is better chez Bounce. Cheers!
Mirrors and plinths primed...
...and given a coat of satin black.
Renault mounts too...
... which of course weren't the same.
Now modified after some Dremel-ing.
And the tiny bit of overspray on the mirrors sorted courtesy of one of these!