{"id":337,"date":"2011-04-23T12:09:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T18:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2015-02-15T14:22:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T20:22:18","slug":"priming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/23\/priming\/","title":{"rendered":"14.2.2 Priming"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 8 of 38 in the series 14 - Final Assembly \/ FInishing<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Now it’s time to get ready for the first coat of primer. Like on the bottom, we’ll start with the gray primer. There are a couple of places that we simply can’t figure out if we have a low spot or an area surrounded by some high spots. Once the gray primer is one, then we will (hopefully) be able to figure it all out.<\/p>\n

Here’s the “before” shot with the (top) in full “spotted dog” mode.
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Since Malcolm has only one respirator, he did just about all the spraying. I mixed when he ran low on primer.<\/p>\n

Spraying primer.
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Almost done
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The “after” shot. (we put the canard on hatch covers on just because)
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Malcolm suggested painting a mouth with teeth under the nose since it looks like a shark.<\/p>\n

And here’s another reason to prime at this point. The plane is COVERED with pinholes. They’re almost impossible to see until the surface is in a single uniform color. Once it is, they are VERY easy to see.
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This entry is part 8 of 38 in the series 14 - Final Assembly \/ FInishing<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Now it’s time to get ready for the first coat of primer. Like on the bottom, we’ll start with the gray primer. There are a couple of places that we simply can’t figure out if we have a low spot … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"series":[38],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8","series-14-final-assembly-finishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}