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Henry Martin spends his nights writing fiction and poetry, which predominately deals with the often-overlooked aspects of humanity. He is the author of three novels: Escaping Barcelona, Finding Eivissa, and Eluding Reality; a short story collection, Coffee, Cigarettes, and Murderous Thoughts; and a poetry collection, The Silence Before Dawn. His most recent published project is a collection of Photostories in five volumes under the KSHM Project umbrella, for which he collaborated with Australian photographer Karl Strand, combining one of a kind images with short stories and vignettes. He is currently working on his next novel narrated in two opposing points of view. He lives with his family in the Northeast.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

CB750F Project: Part VI

Summer is here, and with it school vacation, family vacations, and a lot of work around the house. Needless to say, I'm not getting much of project time these days.

After what seems to be weeks of sanding, filling, fiberglassing, prepping, fixing user errors, more filling, more prepping, and more sanding, I'm finally seeing something.

The giant heat wave combined with humidity above 80% has made painting almost impossible (especially since I'm using lacquer), so everything is taking much longer than expected. The parts pictured are not completely done yet -- I'm waiting for the first clearcoat to fully dry before wetsanding and applying more clear. Thus, the orange peel in the pics. (currently the tailsection is base coat only waiting to be wet-sanded, while the tank has a coat of clear). After I lay down enough layers of clear, sand, rub, and buff, parts should look much better.





PS- the white line appears crooked to the left, but it is only the angle, along with a crappy camera.

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