7/10/2021

We're back out at Grocery Outlet today enjoying the weather and friends. Matilda is now sporting her new fully completed camo paint job and loos pretty satisfied.

7/9/2021

Spent the day wrapping up Matilda's paint job and getting her ready for the outing tomorrow. And she looks great in camo. Pretty much
getting back to normal after the shot effects as well.

7/3/2021

Yes, been more than a year since we last posted, and no we are not dead 😂😂😂. As those that follow our journey know, the new motor pool location that we purchased was not what we needed for our specific situation but we decided to dig in make the investment and try to make it work.

Most of the restructuring of the property is complete and we are getting back on track with the trucks, trailers, and business. We've been touching on that in the last few posts very briefly.

So, today we figured we would take the girls out to Grocery Outlet and show off  their new paint jobs and shiny tires.

 

7/2/2021

Got started on Matilda's new camo paint job today only to end up running out of paint. Gonna try and stop buy the blue box tomorrow morning on the way to Grocery Outlet and grab some more. She'll just have to go as is for the day.

7/1/2021

Getting very close to wrapping up the body work on the tail end of the trailer, and then it's fiberglass game on! Also think we've wrapped up most of the painting on the driver side of Tiffany. Maybe just a bit of touch up once we get her out in the light in the parking lot this weekend. 

Ran out of paint again so we didn't finish the back wall. That's for another day. 

6/30/2021

Got a good bit more paint done on Tiffany's driver side today. Then we turned our attention to getting Matilda all washed off so she is ready to be painted next. Thin

k we are going camo this time around. 

6/29/2021

Think we are calling the paint job done on the passenger side of the Dragon Wagon today. Then turned our attention back to the shooting trailer. Getting loser everyday to be ready to finish the glass work. 

6/28/2021

Got a good start on the passenger side paint job today. Ran out of paint so we went back to the trailer tail end. Solid day overall.

6/27/2021

So, we have been a little laxed in posting this week, but today was pretty awesome! Finally got the rear wing complete and started the glass reinforcing. Things are really starting to look up here at the motor pool.

6/9/2020

Day two of the main flooring install. Still spending a lot of time waiting for primer to dry but, the floor is coming along nicely. We were about half way by the end of the day.

6/8/2020

So, today was the day to start the flooring. Boy did this not go as planned! 

The epoxy was very open after the sanding and it swallowed up the first coat of adhesive primer so, we put on a second coat on for good measure. Worked out very well in the end. The only down side was the dry time of better than 90 minutes per coat with the humidity being as high as it has been lately. Then there is the factor of Soldier A's short arms. He could only lay two foot sections at a time.  😂

Guess we will be doing flooring tomorrow as well.

6/7/2020

Finally got the rest of the floor sanded as flat as it can be. Working on his hands and knees for the last few days has left soldier A walking around like a hunch back.  😂 But, it's now ready for the final flooring tomorrow.

4/11/2020

Covid is still keeping us on lock down at the motor pool, but that just means getting more stuff done. today was lots more epoxy. 

Then Soldier A had to come to grips with the fact that no matter how much he hates to paint it was time to start sucking it up and put time in the bathroom prepping and priming the case work. All together a really good day.
 

4/10/2020

The new matching rubbed bronze shower fixtures came in today. The color matched fixtures and fittings are going to look awesome when finished.

4/7/2020

Second coat of primer in the refrigerator compartment. That got followed up with more sanding of course.

4/6/2020

Got everything cleaned up today and rolled out the first coat of primer in the refer compartment then back to prepping other areas.

4/5/2020

Finished sanding out the refer compartment and it came out really nice. Going to clean up the mess tomorrow and throw on the first coat of primer. Safe night to everyone.

4/4/2020

With the lock down continuing we are being responsible and staying inside the motor pool compound. This isn't a bad thing though. Stuff continues to get done every day.

Today was more sanding and prep for primer. Not very glamourous but it has to get done. 😂😂

We also got the second coat of primer on in the hanging closet area.

4/3/2020

Got the area that will be the hanging close and boot closet all sanded and ready for primer today. Primer tomorrow and we are still waiting for our paint samples to try out our sponge painting plan.

While all the sanding was going on we also rolled out the last three heavy coats of epoxy in the refrigerator compartment. Now that area of the floor is ready for block sanding in preparation for the floor tiles.

A quick side note on tools and equipment. The new 20 volt Dewalt cordless sander hooked to the shop vac is a real pleasure to use, unless overhead of course. It's probably 90% or more dust free. 😁
 

4/2/2020

More progress today while dealing with the horrible things are happening on the globe. Our best wishes to everyone.

We got a lot more work done on preparing for the floor installation. Floated out the pass through areas and block sanded the first section of main floor in preparation for the final three coats of epoxy that we are going to apply.

Once all of the main floor gets the three coats we will block it out one last time and then prime it for the floor tiles.