Project: Clio 182 RB

[Eddie.]

Finished work early today, so after picking up a pressure washer from my Dads, I decided to put the car shelter up, a bit of a test run really, and once it's built it can be folded down and it makes life a lot easier when I want to use it.

Comes in a very handy wheeled bag, should I ever want to take it to a show or anything, this will be very useful!

DSC09325 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

Pretty straightforward to assemble and unfold, took me about 20 mins, but now I know what I'm doing, it'll probably only take a few mins.

Without the sides:

DSC09333 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

And with 2 of the 4 sides attached:

DSC09339 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

Then it folds down really easily and compactly for storage:

DSC09343 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

It's 100% waterproof too so it means I can clean/detail the car pretty much whenever I fancy now.

Going to put together a few outdoor lights on a sealed circuit that I will hang from the inside so I can use it in the evening too.

 

[Joe#]

Great idea Edd

 

[Eddie.]

Great idea Edd

Certainly serves a purpose

Good price too imo!

 

[Jordi17]

is it sterdy? if it starts to blow a ten force gale?

 

[Eddie.]

Pretty steady yeah, fair to say in strong winds I wouldn't be using it. Once its pegged down its not really going anywhere!

 

[welshname]

That's ace. You can also use it when you need to do work on the car and it's raining. This WILL happen what with it being french 'n' all.

 

[Eddie.]

That's ace. You can also use it when you need to do work on the car and it's raining. This WILL happen what with it being french 'n' all.

Oh yeah! It's almost inevitable! But yeah, I plan to put it to good use, once I've got a lighting setup sorted it'll be perfect

 

[Eddie.]

Went out the other night with Rhys and Jon taking some photos of the cars, bit of a drive around Manchester saw us stop in Stockport and in Knutsford over the M6 for some light trails.

Crop of the light trail shot that I quite like:

DSC09450EditCrop by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

One of the RB and ZS in Stockport:

RB & ZS Shoot 07.03.12 (001) by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

The rest are of mine in Stockport:

RB & ZS Shoot 07.03.12 (002) by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

RB & ZS Shoot 07.03.12 (003) by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

RB & ZS Shoot 07.03.12 (004) by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

 

[JamesBryan]

Blurred the background on them?

 

[Eddie.]

Blurred the background on them?

Yeah, the DOF on my lens is awful, so I added a very slight gaussian blur

 

[Jay.S]

Time for a avatar change

RB looks fantastic mate love the 3rd shot down.

 

[welshname]

That silver ZS is tasty. Who's is that?

Love this car. Most people's RB's look really pale but this always looks really deep.

Thanks for the tips the other night. Will shoot in full manual more often

 

[Eddie.]

That silver ZS is tasty. Who's is that?

Love this car. Most people's RB's look really pale but this always looks really deep.

Thanks for the tips the other night. Will shoot in full manual more often

I know, it's more than likely my dogs**t camera that's doing it!

No worries, I enjoyed it, do it again when it's warmer/drier!

 

[welshname]

Nooo, it's deep in a good way, like usually RB looks quite flat imo. This always looks lovely.

 

[Jon.G]

Blur makes them look almost fake, far too heavy. Thinking about it it makes the cars look like toys.

 

[Eddie.]

Blur makes them look almost fake, far too heavy. Thinking about it it makes the cars look like toys.

Wouldnt say its "far too heavy" its more to do with the gaussion blur is crude. I should've used more layers and I didnt

If id stacked the background correctly it would've looked a lot better.

May have another attempt at some point

 

[Jon.G]

Personally I'd of tried to photoshop my tripod out of it

 

[Eddie.]

Personally I'd of tried to photoshop my tripod out of it

Tripod isn't in it.

Shadow is

I did try but it didn't go well so I gave up, its fair to say I didn't spend long on these! Was just a little something. I get sick of looking at PS from work! Haha

 

[Eddie.]

Gave the car a full detail on Saturday in prep for the big Chester meet, we all know what the cleaning stages look like, but I did do a few new bits.

Added Velcro coins to the number plates so I can remove them for photos/cleaning

Filthy behind them when I first took them off!

Clio Detail 001 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

Clio Detail 002 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

I also discovered some rust, someone has drilled some new holes at some point, and not done the best job of it, causing the aforementioned rust! There are a few tiny little spots below the new holes too, not sure what has caused this?

Clio Detail 003 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

Jetwash, white spirit and some elbow grease later:

Clio Detail 004 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

Clio Detail 005 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

If anyone is interested these are the coins I used, got them off eBay £4.00 posted, can't complain really!

DSC09552 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

DSC09557 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

I also gave the exhausts a good going over with that Megs Metal Polish, great stuff I must say!

Clio Detail 006 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

Then with everything looking spotless and clean, the sun popped out to provide the background for a nice warm shot

Clio Detail 007 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

 

[Paul.M]

very nice ed, it looked smart yesterday! I still havent maned up enough to put my velcro on my plates its been sat on my desk for about a month now

 

[Eddie.]

Cheeky PhotoShop I did this evening

Rig Shot 001 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

 

[welshname]

As I've said on FB. It's so convincing albeit a little too quick. We all know it a slow one really

 

[Stefan.]

if it was abit more away from the curb it would look more real. nice effort though

 

[Eddie.]

Had a play with the colours of the edited shot, as they were a little too muted for my liking:

6831458826_248600e4ee_o by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

Much much happier with this! Can't wait to try another shot, want to challenge myself with a harder location

 

[Eddie.]

Another photoshop of my car

Rig Shot 002 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

 

[gerupsausage]

looks good man

 

[Rubicon_]

Great shots, is there a guide on how to shoot those?

 

[Eddie.]

Great shots, is there a guide on how to shoot those?

One I made, isn't brilliant, but it's a start point.

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?630900-Tutorial-Creating-a-rig-shot-in-Photoshop

 

[CraigFoschi]

Wow, that is sunning, fair play!

 

[Eddie.]

It's been a while since the Clio has had much attention. Yesterday I (well mainly Russ) made up for that! I took the car down early on Saturday morning, I had prepped it for Russ the day before, basically doing a full decon for him to get the car as clean as possible, to reduce the workload on the day.

I won't rewrite what Russ has already written, so here is the full write up:

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/show...o-182-in-Racing-Blue-finished-in-Zymol-Glasur

Really enjoyed the day, and Russ's work is amazing, he has a great attention to detail, that I can relate to and I would have no hesitation in recommending him to anyone wanting a truly fantastic finish for their car.

I'm sure he wont mind, but a few photos of the finished article:

DSC05297 by RussZS, on Flickr

DSC05298 by RussZS, on Flickr

DSC05300 by RussZS, on Flickr

DSC05301 by RussZS, on Flickr

Still part way through doing my Alcantara dash, causing a few more head scratching moments than I first expected, but I will overcome them in time.

 

[Eddie.]

Gave the car a good clean yesterday.

Bought two new things for the cleaning side of things.

Zaino Z7, great shampoo tbh, very very slick and left a great finish from just a clean!

DSC09945 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

Also got a Woolly Mammoth, so awesome! I'll never look back I don't think, so absorbent!

DSC09946 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

Sprayed my grille satin black yesterday too, covered in FK already, just need to fit it now

 

[Eddie.]

Grabbed a few photos of the upper grille that I bought ages ago with the intention of spraying, just never got round to it!

Cleaned the grille with white spirit and G101.

Masked up the stickers on the top of the grille.

DSC09942 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

DSC09943 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr


Then 2 coats of plastikote satin black spray paint. Thought it might need 3 but the coating after 2 was lovely.

Finally after leaving it for 24 hours, I gave it two coats of FK1000p which should keep it looking good for a while

DSC09964 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

DSC09966 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

DSC09970 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

Unfortunately, the tape I used to keep the paint off, also damaged part of the sticker found on the middle of the grille.

DSC09972 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

Anyone know where I could get another one???

 

[NFox]

Thats looks awesome, thinking this might be next on my todo list tbh

 

[Ricardos]

It's seeing the detailed pics of yours that makes me pleased I bought an RB, and tempted to go back to OE wheels.

Love it

Also, what sidelight bulbs do you have fitted as they don't look OE yellow?

 

[guysy]

Looks great after the detail.

Gaffa tape as masking tape! your lucky any stickers stayed on! I'd take the white one off.

 

[Christopher]

Grille looks superb mate. Nice one.

 

[Eddie.]

I'd take the white one off.

I want to retain as much oem as possible, this will be an RB restoration/oem+ project if you like

Also, what sidelight bulbs do you have fitted as they don't look OE yellow?

I took them out, like a rebel! so none, is the answer

 

[Ricardos]

I took them out, like a rebel! so none, is the answer

Aaah ok, cheers i'm on the lookout for some that are a close match to the xenon bulbs and thought i'd found some

 

[Eddie.]

Fitted my satin black grille today.

Looks a lot better than the awful old grey thing. Also looks a lot meaner in the flesh, but I now need to do my washer jets/foglight surrounds/lower grille so it all matches!

DSC09981 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

DSC09978 by Eddie the Kid, on Flickr

Also changed my Thermostat (the temperature needle was never quite making it to halfway, and I was permanently on the cold map) with the help of Jonff, was a bit of a faff as the new one didn't seem to want to fit in the housing as snugly as the old one did.

We got it to fit and bolted it all up, hopefully the bolts will help push it correctly into place. We warmed the engine up and everything seems fine. So I will keep my eye on it.

 

[Ricardos]

Did you fit a genuine Renault stat? Grill looks spot on