well i have painted the fuse and it turned out so so. not my best work but ok. i was not able to use the dpx 1791 due to it seeding. i tried three batches of two different lot numbers. no joy...
Heartbroken, i returned to the old alumna prep 33 and alodine 1201 song and dance....what a PITA that is..it takes HOURS to blow down the seams.
next time i will go variprime and imron. (dupont) i have always used PPG but man i had troubles with the seeding and solvent pop in the color coats.. the solvent pop was my fault however. There are brands such as martin seniour that are much more user friendly. i have a dupont store just up the street. the ppg store is a 30 minute ride from the house.
here is the seeding. It is a rough texture and if you look closely you might be able to see the dark spots.(small as dust) the paint was mechanicaly shaken, filtered through paint strainers and also filtered through a bounty paper towel. nothing helped.
so i washed all that off with thinnner and the next day scuffed it and alumnapreped it then alodined..did i mention it took hours to get the **** out of the seams. rinse rinse rinse rinse blow for days it seems.
now for the alodine.....
so then i proceeded to tape her up and paint. not so good here. i ended up sanding it the next day and shooting it again with two light coats. if i had initially done three i would have just sanded and buffed..lets just say i dont have any rivet heads that are not bridged.
but it turned out ok in the end..
the very next day i moved it outside after almost wanting to shoot myself in the head trying to lay out the stripes. UUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHH...man what a time eater that was.holy ****. that took forever as well. man i am too used to painting cars i guess.
anywho i got them laid out after removing the plane from the paint room...ya just gotta be able to back up and stare at it. amazing how keen the eye is to a 1/4 of an inch. these lines are pretty close ...as close as i could get them anyway.
the blue stripe took 5000 feet of paper to cover the plane.
another 5 k of paper for the grey..oh BTW if you are gonna paint your plane get a tape/paper dispenser..or you are gonna be hating it
an exapmle here
http://www.autobarn.net/xxxw-ap-asms2.html but a twin roll machine can be bought at harbor freight for about 30.00..may as well get a paint shaker while your there on sale 89.00.
after the grey was applied i went to dinner and lowes. needed more MEK for gun cleaning and mixing cups. when i got home i un-taped it and was releived that all of the paint stayed on the plane.
and another view.