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After the advice here and in other threads, I took the time to fill and sand the foam surface on my Cherokee. Last night I added the gloss white top coat and I was shocked at how much better it looked! Taking the time to fill and sand really makes the plane look better. The foam surface doesn't look that much like foam anymore. With the flat primer, there was almost no evidence it was foam. The high gloss finish of course brings out any surface imperfections, but it looks a thousand times better after the sanding, filling, and sanding again. Sanding the canopy back to the substrate and spending a lot of time cleaning the surface over and over again fixed the adhesion problem. Not sure what kind of oil got on the canopy, but it took a lot of work to get it off. It was after the factory paint since the factory stuff stuck on the canopy pretty well.
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BRGT350,
That's fantastic that you're plane is turning out well glad that nothing went wrong
Sanding is your friend
more than anything and that you're getting a better paint job out of it and learning some new skills along the way
can't wait to see how it all turns out so make a thread so we can see.BVM Bandit, EFlite Carbon Z T-28, EFlite Carbon Z Cub, EFlite Promethus, FW Avanti S, FW A-10 ThunderBolt, FW P-51 Mustang, EFlite Convergance, EFlite Carbon Z Cessna 150, EFlite Habu, EFlite Styker Q-F27, HSD Navy Super Viper
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I really like where this white one is going! Curious if you weighed them before and after paint?Live Q&A every Tuesday and Friday at 9pm EST on my Twitch Livestream
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Originally posted by Alpha.MotionRC View PostI really like where this white one is going! Curious if you weighed them before and after paint?
No primer coat this time.
Used the spray on Minwax and not the brush on Minwax.
Lots of wet sanding between coats.
Less paint sprayed on rear and bottom of the elevators, wings and the bottom of the plane ,lessons learned from the Blue Angels plane.
If you remember from my flight video of the Blue Angels, I didn't notice any performance difference in flight after painting, just the CG moved from my normal spot. Had to move the battery forward.
BVM Bandit, EFlite Carbon Z T-28, EFlite Carbon Z Cub, EFlite Promethus, FW Avanti S, FW A-10 ThunderBolt, FW P-51 Mustang, EFlite Convergance, EFlite Carbon Z Cessna 150, EFlite Habu, EFlite Styker Q-F27, HSD Navy Super Viper
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How are you doing your rivets?Live Q&A every Tuesday and Friday at 9pm EST on my Twitch Livestream
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Originally posted by Alpha.MotionRC View PostHow are you doing your rivets?
BVM Bandit, EFlite Carbon Z T-28, EFlite Carbon Z Cub, EFlite Promethus, FW Avanti S, FW A-10 ThunderBolt, FW P-51 Mustang, EFlite Convergance, EFlite Carbon Z Cessna 150, EFlite Habu, EFlite Styker Q-F27, HSD Navy Super Viper
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Originally posted by MikeT View Post
Try Clear low tack self paper ( I get it at Wally World ). That's how I masked my A-10
Mike
Hope this works , because it has slow down everything I'm doing .
I just want to get to the detailing part soon, so I can see it all come together before the weather gets bad.BVM Bandit, EFlite Carbon Z T-28, EFlite Carbon Z Cub, EFlite Promethus, FW Avanti S, FW A-10 ThunderBolt, FW P-51 Mustang, EFlite Convergance, EFlite Carbon Z Cessna 150, EFlite Habu, EFlite Styker Q-F27, HSD Navy Super Viper
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