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 […]
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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 […]
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Wow. I said it all in the blog, this is one of those days that you live for as a builder. Your plane suddenly becomes as pretty as you always saw her, but nobody else could see through the crude and epoxy stains. It’s like watching your daughter go to the prom or someting. I […]
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ow. Long day, this. It was a pretty day, but we spent it slaving in the hangar. We started by double-checking the mask (so of the tape didn’t like getting wet from sanding the blue), and then spraying. We put a good coat of white on the roof, using blue foam to keep from denting […]
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Masking of the blue is now done, and a preliminary test of scuffing the blue on the cowling and spraying clear over it seems to have panned out. So, that means we spray white tomorrow, pull the masking, scuff the blue Monday, and clear coat everything on Tuesday (I’m only working Monday this wee). At […]
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More pictures us masking the blue off in preparation for spraying the white. Pilot side masked Masking pilot nose Masking the door “checkmark” Masking the window “swoosh” Masking the lower body-to-strake junc For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim […]
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