Paint And Play

Flit-Tip #2 Follow your own advice.

I failed to follow my own advice and put the first coat of bamboo yellow on the fuselage with the airbrush. It took forever. And the results were mixed. Some good spots. Some grainy.

Undaunted, I went on to getting the fuselage on the gear. That meant grinding down the fiberglass rod pultrusions that absorb the shocks of returning to earth.

Most of the grinding was done with a drum sander in the drill press. But the final fit was done by hand with sandpaper.

Talk about nasty work... I'm still feeling tiny glass fiber shards in my hands. Next time, I'll wear gloves.

Joe at Wings of Freedom says, gently wash your hands in the hottest water you can stand. It's supposed to help get rid of those tiny glass fibers.
Though, I'd still opt for gloves...

But it was all worth it. Here's the Flitplane fuse on its gear, with its first coat of color.


Ain't that cool?!

Then Serendipity Strikes!

Glenn Emmons, a neighbor, and professional artist, started visiting me in the garage more than ususal. He was Flit-struck!

Today he offered his efforts, and, perhaps the efforts of his son (also a pro.) to apply hand brushed bamboo details to the fuselage tubes! YES!

And

A jog/walker neighbor stopped by to see what was going on. It turned out he was in the German submarne corps during WW-II! We've hit it off time. Every couple of days, he drops by to find out how things are going at the flugzeugbau...

And

A person from a generation younger than mine shows up on occasion. We talk and laugh and play with ideas about how the Flit-kit otta be built.

Flit Tip #3

Building airplanes builds neighborhoods.

Another Coat of Bamboo

Having turned my back on the airbrush for production painting, I finally turned to the big guns. I shot the next coat of fuselage color with a "real" spray paint rig and stuck a respirator over my nose.


A minimal spray booth of milar hung with duct tape did the trick.

I Need Parts!

Lacking some parts from WOF, I found myself doing things "I'd do anyway..."


Without the mounting clamps, here's the comapss in its panel.


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