Stanced XUD Estate (IT'S ALIVEEEEahahaha)

[cwspellowe]

More of an update on Frankenbumper, pic heavy sorry. Got a load of fibreglass on and the first couple of skims of filler. Coming together nicely now, hoping to have it ready to fit by Tuesday. Hopefully. Maybe.

First job of the day, remove the tape and slap on more fibreglass





Give it a sand, grind off the heads of the screws and add more





Now time for a bit of filler to fill in any pitting of the fibreglass





And then on to the first proper skim of filler. I'm trying not to use too much as it's fecking heavy and the more there is the more chance of cracking





Whilst waiting for filler to cure I stuck the bumper side by side with the current one. It's about 1cm shorter top to bottom than the current one so there'll be less scraping but it'll still look low without the need for a stuck on splitter.



You can see in this pic how it follows the lines of the skirt much better than a standard bumper without a splitter



Then on to more filling, sanding, rinse, repeat...

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Xav was over today too, he kindly sorted out my mess of a smooth grille after I attacked it with some 40 grit and pretty much ruined it. Many hours of filler later and he had the grille smoothed onto the hockey sticks almost ready for paint





And last some pics of everything together





Still need to sort out the mouth of the bumper as one side is a different angle to the other. Need to add a bit more filler at the back edge of the bumper too. Almost ready to paint though, hopefully look as awesome as i'm imagining in my head!