First Viewing of Painted Scheme

Here you can see us making the move from our hangar to the big corporate hangar so we can finish painting the wings. Side view with door An empty booth For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim […]

Fuselage Painting Completed

So, I’ve decided that we’re done spraying paint on the fuselage. So, unless we screw something up I plan to move the fuselage into storage space in the corporate hangar this weekend. Next stop is to paint the small odds-n-ends and interior door beams. It turns out that all most nobody covers those with upholstery, […]

Spraying Clear Coat onto Fuselage

We sanded and sprayed more clear today, and she is really looking nice. We may be ready to move the fuselage out of the hangar later this week so we can get to work on the finishing up the wings. I’m hoping to have the paint done by Christmas, then we can install the engine […]

Spraying Clear Coat onto Fuselage

So, we got out early and worked out the worst of the contamination in the clear coat. It wasn’t nearly as bad as I had feared yesterday, so we got the booth nice and hot and started spraying clear again. This coat looks really nice, mostly glassy smooth. We’ll give it all day tomorrow to […]

Masking to Reshoot the Blue

Happy Thanksgiving. We had everything ready to go this morning, so we heated the booth and sprayed blue again on just the lower fuselage. In hindsight, that was a mistake. The lower fuselage came out gorgeous, but around the windows where we scuffed and sprayed clear over it is clearly not as pretty – we […]

Fuselage Blue Repainted

Happy Thanksgiving everybody. We had everything ready to spray today, and we shot blue early and ran the heater for all it was worth. A little over 2 hours later we were ready to unmask and spray the clear.