Spraying Blue onto the Fuselage

Spraying Blue onto the Fuselage

We managed to spray blue tonight and it looks AWESOME. I think Jerry is getting the hang of spraying paint, and would take him seriously if he didn’t come out of the booth looking like a smurf!. Seriously, the pictures don’t do it justice, the lens needed cleaning, but it’s sweet. We primed the pants […]

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Priming small parts

Another minimally-productive weekend, with Halloween obligations and an EAA chapter meeting. We did prime some of the fuselage “bits”, but that’s about it.   For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis […]

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Cowling and Door Preparation

Cowling and Door Preparation

This wasn’t a great weekend for working on the airplane, though we did get some very nice weather for late October in Ohio. We had some Halloween things to do on Saturday, and Sunday was our EAA meeting. So, we elected to keep to manageable bits of work, we covered the fuselage and primed the […]

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Painting the Strake Pockets

Painting the Strake Pockets

Well, I was hoping we could announce some color coating over the weekend, but we didn’t get to it. We did finish sanding out the windows, crackle-coated the strake pockets, and chromed the landing light recess. Check out the pictures.

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Strake Pocket Painting

Strake Pocket Painting

The windows are a pain in the ass. We’re going to paint onto them slightly to make them look more flush than they really are. We’ve hit them with about 1/8″ of primer, and we’ll go another 1/8″ onto the window with the top coat using 3M Fine Line tape. We also sprayed chrome Krylon […]

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Paint Scheme Finalized

Paint Scheme Finalized

Sweet work coming out of Air Graphics as we finalize our paint scheme with them. Here’s our latest side view, which I think is pretty close to finally. Pretty sweet, eh?           For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore […]

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