Mini shell and panels paint completed

The Mini shell, panels and miscellaneous parts were sitting in my garage for over a month waiting for the booking date at a local professional paint shop. Once the week arrived I confirmed a day that had no rain forecast and everything was loaded up with the shell and dolly on a car trailer, and everything else in my ute.

A week or so later I was able to pick up everything. The shell and all parts had one coat of (white) sealer then two coats of 2K direct gloss in Ford Code Orange (used exclusively on the ~2022-2024 Ford Raptor range). This is a huge milestone in the project and considering that paint shop advised they had to do zero additional sanding work before painting to achieve this quality, I'm immensely proud of supplying such high quality paint prep work to them.

The total volume of paint used was 2.7 Litres of sealer and 7.7 Litres of 2K top coat!

The last step in finishing the paint job was to mask multiple areas of the underbody coating on the lower firewall, floorpan and in the wheel arches. This is so I could paint some black over any underbody coating that had white primer overspray on it. For example, the driver side wheel arch masked up prior to touch up.

After the touch-up, the result was a clean look with very contrasting colours between the orange and black.

The same was done for under the boot and sills but as an example in the lower engine bay :