Skyline GTR (Cloudy and Ash)

[James]

Well it's been a while since I posted on here, with me moving house I have not really had chance to be on the net.. that and I have not had the net for a month.

Anyway, me and ash detailed this skyline last week. It's a mate of cammedvtr on here, i'd said i'd sort it out for him before rising sun so kept to my promise and did. She came out well, was very impressed. Took us long enough though, a good 10 hours with 2 porter cables working.

Car was cleaned as normal, washed, clayed, washed, dried. Arches treated with poorboys de-greaser, wheels cleaned with menzerna wheel and tyre gel 7.5. I'll skip the shit because most of you know how my details work, everything was covered.

Masking up,

http://www.downtown-mafia.com/cloud/1.jpg

http://www.downtown-mafia.com/cloud/2.jpg

Defect removal, test area was marked out. Menz IP and a polishing pad failed, so Menz IP and a cutting pad were used and passed with flying colours. Took a couple of hits but you know the score,

http://www.downtown-mafia.com/cloud/3.jpg

http://www.downtown-mafia.com/cloud/4.jpg

More polishing

http://www.downtown-mafia.com/cloud/5.jpg

Getting there

http://www.downtown-mafia.com/cloud/6.jpg

One week later at the rising sun car show;

http://www.downtown-mafia.com/cloud/7.jpg

http://www.downtown-mafia.com/cloud/8.jpg

http://www.downtown-mafia.com/cloud/9.jpg

What made the effort worth it?

http://www.downtown-mafia.com/cloud/10.jpg

Second place in show and shine, should have been 1st but it appears the judges are as blind as stevie wander and don't count scratches on a cars paint work as a defect. I'm not pissed off.. honest.

Owner (Andy) was over the moon with it, was not happy when he seen what car won and the defects but hey at least he got a trophey.

[dannyjay]

Looks awesome matey. Your cleaning skillz rock my world!

How much you charging for this shizzle now? Bet you make a few pennys... :)

Good work as always. :y:

[Baz]

looks mint, mine needs a right good clean tbh! thinking about a wash tomorrow :P

[Ashleyp]

i bloody love skylines ;)

[Scattle]

very,very nice good work on that:D

[lenham]

looks mint mate, good job

[bullit]

my hero

[Karl]

that looks awesome,
that colour looks fantastic!

[Krys_23]

Very nice job buddy looks awesome.. Noticed the cheeky starlet beside the skyline looks the boy ;)

[Jacko]

i love clouds detailing threads...i actually love them.

[Amiee]

Looks wicked guys, ya did another good job :y:

[AdamWhy]

thats mental...!! good work there...

[carlos45]

looks mint! where was the rising sun car show? there was 1 just down the road from me in nostell priory.

[Pat_Vts]

damn thats sweet... detail my saxo? how much?:P

[wallsy]

Thats awesome! Great work. Looks so unbelievably clean. :panic:

[platty]

thats very good guys, ill keep you in mind if i need a full detail.

pm me a price.

[bide_furio]

GOD!!!!!!

[Ferg]

WOW!!

The end results are brillant tbh...

[Viper]

good work as usual lads. and congrats on the trophy!

what came first?

[Barry123]

I hate cleaning threads... but guys your stuff is top notch... hope everything is going ok :y:

[Viper]

why do you have them sayer man?

[Barry123]

no i mean gay one like, Progress Thread 'UPDATE: I cleaned my car today'

when really no one gives a shit whether you cleaned it today or 3 years ago.

[Viper]

oh right, fair enough :)

[Baz]

no i mean gay one like, Progress Thread 'UPDATE: I cleaned my car today'

when really no one gives a shit whether you cleaned it today or 3 years ago.

i last did mine.....sometime before xmas :) i rock, been done twice since i last saw your vipes!

[Viper]

if you mean from the time you came up to newcastle then thats a disgrace!!

[Baz]

if you mean from the time you came up to newcastle then thats a disgrace!!

that would be correct, was back in October, did it the day after i saw you then once since then

[Viper]

haha, thats epic!

i bet the car looks black!

[Branter33]

Brilliant looking car and even more stunning results bud :y:

Mucho impressed. :y:

Just wondering since you were using Menz IP on a cutting pad, did you then require another hit with FF? Or were you able to refine the finish enough with a few slow passes on the cutting pad?

Max

[James]

Thanks everyone,

Branter, was done for good measure mate. Followed by a glaze,polish and a layer of Dodo wax. Car was re-waxed at the show for good measure,

[Jaffaa]

Quality work guys :y:

[Branter33]

Thanks everyone,

Branter, was done for good measure mate. Followed by a glaze,polish and a layer of Dodo wax. Car was re-waxed at the show for good measure,

Again, nice work :y: Purple haze by chance?

[James]

To be honest no, lol. I could spin a lie off and say yes because you won't tell the difference but I used crush as it's the only colour we had to hand at the time. The haze was in ash's car back at his house lol, next time I see Andy i'll offer him to go over the car with purple haze but honestlly, I don't think the difference will be noticeable to the naked eye coming from experiance with my car and ash's. When I did my car there was no difference at all visually.

[furioAL]

Great work guys.. just as normal! :y:

[kcsaxo]

great work again, any pics of the winning car with the scratches?

[Hopcraft]

fantastic per usual !

[James]

Danke chun homies, I'll try scour a pic up of the winner later.

[Jacko]

2nd place is first loser. so technically you still came first....

[George-J]

Bangin', great work lads! You can tell a lot of effort went into that.