Cheers for the positive comments, much appreciated. Much of the build was a huge step out out of my comfort zone except for the mechanical stuff as it is my trade.

Yep, I had to paint it twice as the first batch of paint (from a supplier in Newcastle) unbeknown to me, made that batch of paint with a clear base rather than white like it was supposed to be. I was unaware of this (I'm no spray painter but I was giving it a red hot go) and as I built my own full sized booth (yep, you guessed it, I built it using black impact plastic, which was the wrong thing to do as it placed too much reliance on the lighting to 'see' the paint as it went on - rather than indirect illumination to see those lower or 'hard to see' areas such as under cheatlines, across the roof etc).

The first coat of jam looked great under the halogen lights I was using, it was only when I pulled it out into the daylight the next morning I realised the paint was translucent and looked more like it was flourescent yellow. The air around me when I found out was a deep shade of blue... After all of my spare time for a month or so rubbing it back again I was able to get back to it and re-base coated in white and got some local (Sydney) sourced 2pak Absinth yellow. This second job actually turned out much better as I was getting better results with the spray gun I was using as I was getting used to it. The finish is straight off the gun, with a little bit of peel to take the edge of that '2 pak' hard gloss look.

Unfortunately I've lost a heap of pics from a hard drive failure but here is a few odd ones from the build. I'll add more as I find them

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