Some progress with the front lip.
I was going through the front lip with 400-grit sandpaper for the last time, so it would be ready for painting, when I suddenly noticed some hairline cracks on the primer. Further examining revealed that the glass fiber putty I had, was too thin to keep everything in shape. I was ready to give up of the whole painting thing and started asking silvery DiNoc from Maladar, so I could get at least something out of the broken thing. Maladar told me that no one stores silver DiNoc around here and I need to buy the whole 12-meter roll, which was quite expensive for the situation.
I was bit smitten. Next night I googled around various sites explaining methods to fix those hairline cracks. Most of the sites were about boats, and boats as well are made out of glass fiber. Most of the boats tend to hit things underwater, and experience same kind of problems. (With water gushing inside the boat, as a bonus)
Next day I decided to try out some of the guides and I grabbed Widric’s dremel. At least, I try to fix the largest cracks so the whole thing still stays together. Replica Buddy Club front wing costs about 29900 yen in Japan, which is about 300 euros without VAT, taxes and cargo, so if I screw up, I still can order the front lip. 🙂
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