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 should’ve just retaped and sprayed it as well. Live and learn, it still looks very good, but it could’ve been awesome. Live and learn. Also, spraying the roof is tough, so we rigged a bit of blue foam to spread our weight out, and we used a towel to keep from scuffing up the paint, and we allowed some overspray to come down the side and foul the clear. So, we’ll have some clean up work there. We also had a bit of underspray on our tape, the fine line held up, but some of the standard masking tape bled, but since we were spraying clear right after the blue set, we were able to clean it up with a little thinner (the white was firmly set). By running a torpedo heater flat out we were able to keep the booth in the mid-80s so the paint would dry. A few more days of clean-up, sanding and buffing and we should be able to move the fuselage out and get the wings squared away, maybe in time for Christmas. We also masked the main gear pants.

Retaping for blue	Retaping for blue
Masked the pants	Masked the pants

Posted By: Brett Ferrell
Friday November 27th, 2009 at 10:51 PM

Categories: Masking
Tags: Building Fuselage Masking Painting