[PeterAllen]

Bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger ...

I have spent months and months aligning all the pieces of the rear section someone had cut off when trying to make a roadster from the berlinetta kit. As well I made up pieces that were missing altogether and all the joining edges were chamfered inside and out, I even used a laser to get them positioned within millimetres. I laid lightweight matting at strategic points and then carefully removed the rear as one section.

With easy access off the car I went to town on laying heavy (600g) matting both inside and outside the joins. I made up Q-cell paste and applied it to the outside and started to sand it all smooth. Last night I refitted the section and found the bloody thing had distorted when I applied the heavy matting... bugger, bugger, bugger ...

I've only ever laid up fibreglass in moulds I'd made or relatively small patch work and I wasn't attuned to the stresses created with curing resin of the scale I had used.

I've gone back to square one (photo) and cut the whole bloody thing up and will redo it somehow attached to the shell to act like a mould.

Does anyone have Stephen Bradbury's phone number, I'm in need of some luck!