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Jim,
Thanks for the reply, and I was not trying to be critical, just curious. Everything you've done supports the fact that you pushed it to paint when you felt you needed to, and you've got a plan moving forward. There's no reason you can't fit the hood later, if you choose to, it just means taping interface points, and having to be more careful when you get frustrated and throw the wrench - gotta aim away from painted surfaces, right?

The reason I asked is that on my glass '33 when I decided to run the hood top the guy who made the body told me that the "widow's peak" on the cowl sits high in the middle, and to make it easier to fit the hood he always makes a thin cut right at the bottom of the curve where the peak meets the firewall, about a foot out on each side. He told me to set a battery on the top of the peak, then go inside and bond the gap with mat & resin. A dab of filler in the crack and it's all done. Hopefully yours won't need that kind of tweaking, and the gennie hood will lay down just right!

BTW I really like the blue you chose. It's gonna look killer!