I used Poly Fiber epoxy based zinc chromate. Aircraft Spruce was out of white, so I went with green. That'll make it harder to cover with color, perhaps. But I had to have the stuff.
I applied the primer with an air-brush! Worse, the only thing I could find to hold paint was a 1/4 oz. cup! It took nearly 5 hours to shoot a coat.
Next day I went out and bought a 3 oz. bottle for the air-brush. But, even with that, I'm not sure I wanna do that again. It reduces over-spray, and is easy to get into odd corners and small places; but it takes forever.
A lot of the brushing was done by eye. And it shows. But the pic shows the bottom of the floor. The top looks better.
Cutting, fitting, fileing, and finishing the floor took a bit over 2 hours.
Out in the garage (a.k.a. Flit-factory) there's a notebook. In it I write what I've done, on what day, and how long it took.
Mixed into the logged time, and the time that's gone un-logged, is time spent just staring at parts and plans. Like a baby bird imprinting on its parents. Or, perhaps, more like a parent bird learing the sight, smell, and sound of its offspring. It's as if we were pre-wired to study the details of our creations.
My guess is that Mark and Joe at Wings of Freedom will be able to recognise this airplane years hence. As their first kit customer, it's as much theirs as mine.
But, how do you enter that in a builder's log? "Five minutes, being with the Flit-kit." "Three minutes, bonding with horizontal tail attach points..." I don't know.
For now, if I'm distracted, or need a break, from an actual task and find myself in reverie; the time is included in that task. But if I'm doing something else, and feel a need to visit the garage, "just to check something," that's not counted in the build time.
Though perhaps it should be. Imprinting is in our genes.