The first coat is the hardest.

If you read any Land Rover related forum you’ll find a thread about the rights and wrongs of painting a chassis. These vary from just slap it on, through having to do it on the third Friday in Capricorn rising and only after sacrificing your first born, to ‘why would you want to damage your brand new chassis?’ I went for the relatively mundane wash down with degreaser and Scotch-Brite, wash down, dry, Mordant T-wash, wash down dry.

The real fun started with the first brush stroke of Mordant T-wash – this man is not for turning but the chassis was now turning black.

Tomorrow is priming day. Epoxy primer tinted golden yellow. I hope I like the colour!