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I used to feel bad about the 12 different shades of yellow we have on 'Tuff Tweety' but after watchin all the planes at the flyins, I don't feel so bad anymore - its fairly common. But only with yellow.
Yellow will make you crazy...Dad is doing a Fairchild F24 yellow and he is pulling his hair out!
The prop is a 77" Whirlwind ground adjustable. Engine is a IO-360-B1D (180) on a dyna-focal zero thrust line mount, and the floats are EDO 89A-2000s. I am not concerned about the different "shades" of yellow as it is a seaplane which I will be dragging into small bush scratching places where there are not many people to see it. Therefor I will not be worried about scratching it. If it was a "show stopper" I would not be able to enjoy it as much. This is my "beater" plane. The 185 is my "show off" plane.That is a beautiful sight. Congratulations! What prop, engine, floats?
I used to feel bad about the 12 different shades of yellow we have on 'Tuff Tweety' but after watchin all the planes at the flyins, I don't feel so bad anymore - its fairly common. But only with yellow.
Yes Mike, I agree, I have always painted white or a light color first as well. This time was my first try at using the Stewarts system and since it is different than just dope & fabric, which is what I am used to doing, I tried to follow their instructions. The manual said to spray the top coat over the black Ekofil. I didn't find the jug of white Ekofill in the bottom of the box until after the top coat was already on. It wasn't until a couple years later when I ordered some more paint that the instructions for the use of the white showed up in a supplemental instruction sheet. I wasn't about to repaint anything. Particularly since I hate painting. I did repaint the rudder since it had a run in it and I had some final parts that had to be done. The rudder is now the best painted part of the whole job but there are twice as many coats of top coat as the manual calls for. And since it was a cured yellow top coat before the repaint that became the light base coat which made it come out so well.yep, ALWAYS paint it WHITE first on all parts, then yellow.... and other colors.... I always paint white first, no mater what the final color..
The landing light is a $30 LED which is set up with another in the other wing with a Wig-Wag flasher for maximum visibility. We have a lot of folks who fly around here that don't seem to bother looking for other airplanes. So I'll need all of the help I can get for traffic avoidance. No I'm not going to name her, unless we are having a bad day, then she might have a few four lettered names.Wow! That airplane is beautiful! I like that landing light, and man that exhaust looks sexy, did I mention how nice your instrument panel set up is.
Congratulations! Are you gonna name her?
Actually Tom wasn't supposed to show those wheels as they are part of a new top secret STC project:lol:Hmmmm... Innovative wheels there. The new replacement for Bushwheels? Four caster at each gear to float over terrain and compensate for crosswinds. I can't put my finger on it, but something in the back of my mind says there is a flaw here. LOL !!
John Scott
yep, ALWAYS paint it WHITE first on all parts, then yellow.... and other colors.... I always paint white first, no mater what the final color..