As part of clearing the inspection items from the list, I've started
painting the surfaces that are already finished. This includes the
vertical tail, the horizontal, and the nose section so far. The
elevator is queued up next, and the wing surfaces should follow shortly
thereafter. I'm doing this out of order to clear those structures from
the garage to work on the wings.
Painting has been
three cross-coats of Glidden Gripper latex interior/exterior white
primer thinned 30% with water and applied with a small foam brush. The
first coat tends to use the most paint, mostly because the paint is half
disappearing through the fabric to wet out the backside. Subsequent
coats definitely spread out better.
On the rudder I
painted previously, the three cross-coats were followed up with three
sprayed cross coats. This ended up making beautiful coverage, but at
the expense of a lot of weight. I suspect the sprayed coats were much
thicker than they needed to be. I'm going to stick with hand brushing
this time to better control the weight growth.
Inspection rings on the tail covering and ready for paint:
Aaaand, after painting:
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