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Painting and fuselage vents

I layed out the small handful of parts to paint and scuffed them before painting them. I also laced the static line to the rib after...

Painting and aft fuselage

My rust converter dried, and you can see the texture of the rusted surface. I decided I would smooth it out with some bondo because I...

Painting?

My truck has a bunch of rust spots on it, but this one by the driver's door keeps catching my pant leg, so I decided to do something...

Assembly on Fuselage Bulkheads

First thing today, I shot primer on the bulkheads. Then I did the assembly that was called for. For the most part, most of the rivets...

Primer on Bulkheads

I started prepping parts for primer today I got out my painting tray and started scuffing parts.

Dimpling

With the skins and stiffeners deburred, I got out the C-frame to dimple the skins. After working through the skins, I set them off to the...

Some prep work, priming

We hade a brief diversion to work on Peter's P-51 model. Afterwards, I primed a couple of the remaining components that go on the...

Primer and odds and ends

I got stuff together to paint today, so I could shoot it after the kids went to bed. I scuffed the areas I plan on priming and laid them...

Primer

I was able to set-up to spray primer on all of the rib parts. I laid as many ribs out on my screen as I could, and hung the rest from a...

Begun, The Primer Wars Have

This evening I tried out my new primer set-up. After the kids went to bed, I headed out to the garage that I had already turned the heat...

Primer Prep

Today was mostly shop work. I got a new compressor and spray gun. I had picked up some nason epoxy primer earlier in the week. I cleaned...

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