Well, painting has finally started. Temperatures in our part of Canada are now warm enough to work in our unheated hangar. I built up a removable paint booth with giant tarps, floor model fan, furnace filter, and loads of light. I'm using Stewarts and boy-oh-boy has that been a learning experience. I am trying to follow the instructions to the LETTER, but unfortunately between the various versions of their videos on YouTube, as well as their printed instructions, there is some ambiguity on such things as gun pressure, viscosity times, etc. My lower cowl is about the only part that is perfect so far. Everything else has some level of orange peel although you have to be quite close to see it. I've been at this 3 weeks and I have done all of the various covers, intersection fairings, wingtips, horizontals stabs, panel, nose bowl, lower and upper cowl, cargo area rear cover, and the cargo doors. Man, there are a lot of bits and pieces.
Tomorrow I will do the elevators and rudder, then over the next few days the flaps, ailerons, and gear. Next week, wings, and the week after that, the fuselage.
Somehow, getting the wings buttoned up on a quick build assemble seems like a bit of a milestone. When a a friend like Dean, who is a scratch build addict (Mustang II, Wag-Aero clipped wing Cub), tutors and helps you on how to correctly buck rivets it makes for educational and wonderful time.
Anyone put a removeable panel on boot cowl - somewhere on the side between the yellow tape lines I have in the picture below?
