I never posted this draft of a post from a month ago, so here it is.
Finally it appears that the painting on the fuselage is mostly completely save for some touching up. We’ve learned a lot and it looks pretty awesome.
The colors are Insignia White, Battleship Gray, and Firethorn Red from Stewart Systems. The scheme came from RANS.
Few things from spraying EkoPoly Premium we found. The biggest one is make sure the booth is dry. It seems humidity played a large part in some of our more frustrating sessions. So make sure the air is dry in the line and in the booth. The nasty picture of a light coat of red below was what we ended up with in the beginning of putting the red on. A combination of drying the booth out more and increasing the tip pressure on the gun seemed to do the trick.
Next time I think I’ll try removing the tapes prior to the paint drying. Maybe that will allow me clean up the lines and make them better.
Either way, I’m a happy guy.
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