Still going...

It is pretty amazing, Grant is still sanding. It is coming back to me now, how long the finishing process takes.

He is going solo at the moment. He didn't need Mark to do the last check for smoothness before painting, and now this last check has been going for more than 2 weeks.

We miss having Mark here. Grant particularly misses having his company and has run off a couple of times to have a change of scene and to chat with someone other than me. Right now he is surfing which does him the world of good.

So, I can't say when he will be painting, but it will be very exciting when he does.

The the hard part will be making the decision to stop.

So close now

That's right. It is down to the nitty gritty now. The paint is being ordered for next week.

Grant will probably go over it once more to make sure it is completely smooth in the next few days.

This is a new sander for very fine sanding. It is being run by a compressor.

All the blobs on the photo are from dust that constantly float around the sculpture.

The pink patches are from the car body filler.

Part of the reason for dust flying everywhere...

Quite a lot of the sanding today and yesterday has been by hand with Mark smoothing out the crevices and tighter curves leading away from the centre. The mechanical sanders just create grooves.

It's incredibly laborious but it is almost done now.