Hello Blanch53. I was at the Bluegrass Festival in Maple Ridge yesterday. It was a pretty good show.
I did my inner and outer cowls on my 48 two ton just this year. I haven't painted yet. Were you able to keep the original inner to outer piece? I found that very important in keeping the original body line.
Not sure what I am going to do about the painting part. KMS in Coquitlam rents out their paint booth. With my tractor I just painted in the back yard. Also, somewhere on this site, there is a link to building a low cost booth using PVC pipe, I believe. I used to teach at a high school and might take the body parts into school to get painted.