{"id":3739,"date":"2017-06-21T06:23:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T12:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2017-06-26T06:40:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T12:40:01","slug":"14-99-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/21\/14-99-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"14.99 &#8211; Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"38\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 36 of 38 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/14-final-assembly-finishing\/\">14 - Final Assembly \/ FInishing<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>One of the things I recall when I started this project was not to paint until after about one year.\u00a0 That&#8217;s because there are lots of tweaks that get made during Phase I flight testing and just after.<\/p>\n<p>And (for me) that was good advice.\u00a0 While I didn&#8217;t have to make any wing incidence adjustments, there were a number of minor changes that would have been painful to make had the plane been painted.<\/p>\n<p>Started working towards paint last fall. But after a number of delays, I finally went down to Sebastian to begin the process. I flew down on Monday morning and by the end of the first day, most of the plane was disassembled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170612_165755.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170612_165755-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20170612_165755\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By lunch time on Tuesday, all removable, paintable parts had been removed. On Thursday, I began sanding. Fortunately, the plane was in really good shape.\u00a0 The primer had yellowed which made for a really nice guide coat. It wasn&#8217;t as easy to see as a traditional black guide coat but other than pinholes, it worked very well.\u00a0 For pinholes, a flashlight and pencil worked out just fine.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the day on Monday, everything was sanded out and most of the pinholes were filled. At this point, I had done all that I could do.\u00a0 Actual masking and painting is best left to the professionals. So I drove back up to Panama City to wait for the call to come down and start putting everything back together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"38\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 36 of 38 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/14-final-assembly-finishing\/\">14 - Final Assembly \/ FInishing<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>One of the things I recall when I started this project was not to paint until after about one year.\u00a0 That&#8217;s because there are lots of tweaks that get made during Phase I flight testing and just after. 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