Everything glassed , faired and sanded |
Masking in preparation for sraying the paint |
A quick test with the HVLP sray gun. |
The first of 3 coats of epoxy primer (from system-3 resins), thinned with water and alcohol. The spray gun did a very good job, but was very slow with the paint I was using. The first 600ml took an hour to spray. After that I removed the strainer from the gun and prestrained all the paint. Mixing and straining a batch of the paint took about 15 minutes, along with cleaning the spray gun each time. All in all the most paint I could spray in a day was about 2 liters. I also needed to stop before it cooled off too much in the evening for the paint to cure. After the first coat I discovered it was very hard to tell where you were recoating when spraying the same color. So I started alternating layers of white and gray primer. After the primer came 4 more layers of water reducible LPU paint (also from System-3 resins). Thinning with water. I alternated white and offwhite layers to make it easier to see the recoats. Finally color is an offwhite. |
The cockpit area after the final coats of paint. |