I have an airworthy airplane again!
Have to laugh at my striping. I failed to measure before I lifted the boot cowl up. None of the stripes line up with the cowl. About 1/4" off on the left side. On the right the height is correct, but the stripes between the door and the boot cowl are crooked. The ones on the right are easy to fix. The left is just going to have to be that way.
Had a scare with the N numbers. I was worried about the yellow showing through the white, so I painted far too many coats of white for the numbers. The resulting dope film was so thick that it did not tear straight at the edges. Left a lot of flapping edges. Managed to mostly clean it up with some careful scraping with a square exacto blade, except for a corner or two where the base coat pulled off due to some blushing underneath.
Tomorrow, I fly!
Have to laugh at my striping. I failed to measure before I lifted the boot cowl up. None of the stripes line up with the cowl. About 1/4" off on the left side. On the right the height is correct, but the stripes between the door and the boot cowl are crooked. The ones on the right are easy to fix. The left is just going to have to be that way.
Had a scare with the N numbers. I was worried about the yellow showing through the white, so I painted far too many coats of white for the numbers. The resulting dope film was so thick that it did not tear straight at the edges. Left a lot of flapping edges. Managed to mostly clean it up with some careful scraping with a square exacto blade, except for a corner or two where the base coat pulled off due to some blushing underneath.
Tomorrow, I fly!