The Fuselage goes to the Airport Corporate Hangar for Storage

Another major milestone, we’ve moved the fuselage out of the hangar. We will probably buff it some more and wax and polish her in the spring, but she looks really nice. Getting paint to look “perfect” is really hard, but getting it to look good just takes time really. I have to thank Jerry and […]

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 […]

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.

Preparing to Recoat Fuselage Blue

The touch-ups on the metallic didn’t come out to our satisfaction, so we’re going to repsray that tomorrow. We sanded the irregularities out of the white today and scuffed the blue, and retaped everything so we can spray blue. We’ll spray the blue and let it get firm, then spray clear tomorrow.

Fuselage is Painted White

This, as my buddy Andy would say, is “one of those days”. The kind of day where you just need to step back and drink it all in. One of those days that you can legitimately say that you’re Living the Dream. We unmasked this evening, and my baby is a stunner! I loved her […]