Tuesday 12/05/2023
Did some guitar practice. Wrote a short couple of paragraphs for the writers group. Attended the meeting. Oddly, the subject of “laughter” seemed to bring out a lot of bittersweet, or downright gloomy, essays.
Did some more practice. Went out and bought some groceries.
Spent an hour on an initial attempt to apply chrome trim to the 240Z. This is going to be frustrating. The orange paint is finished (multiple coats) and has had a day to harden. Now I want to put “chrome” on these incredibly narrow little bands that represent the drip rail and the window frames. There are three ways to do this. Today I experimented with using metal leaf. This is incredibly thin aluminum(?) foil. Think back to when you would pop a stick of Juicy Fruit and then sit there peeling the foil off the wrapper? Like that foil but much, much thinner. You paint on an adhesive liquid where you want to foil, wait for it to set, then carefully without breathing bring a piece of foil over and using a brush, lay it down and press it home.
Yeah, in your dreams. Next way to try is using Real Metal(tm), which is a slightly heavier foil that has its own adhesive. Easier to handle, and you can cut it into pieces with straight edges.
Codgerville 