Paint: Limestone; More Hood/Bonnet

Was at NAPA today, at lunch time, picking up some more Pastel Green paint, and asked about Limestone. It turns out it's already in the system, as an official Land Rover paint, which was a very nice thing to discover. The guys at NAPA very kindly mixed a sample for me to try out, and it is indeed an exact match for what's on the Land Rover.

Here's the computer entry and code (3307, but can also be found as 516 in the same system) that NAPA has on file. In case it's useful to those who don't have a NAPA at hand, the entire formula is here:

Worked further on the hood, finishing up the scraping, sanding and wire brushing. Where the old paint resisted well, it was left alone and sanded smooth, as I'm not going to argue with paint that has stuck well for 51 years. Then masked off the aluminum (including the rivets, as they would not have been painted originally when the frame was installed; however they were covered by the Pastel Green overspray) and then two coats of Eastwood's Rust Converter (which smells a lot like tea, incidentally, which may be the tannic acids used).

The Rust Converter needs 48 hours to dry completely, and then the frame will receive a primer coat, and, following that, some black high-temp paint. Then work will switch to the other side.

Here, the exposed steel and rust are turning black, which indicates that Rust Converter is doing its job...