I've been prepping my RV-7 for paint over the past couple of weeks. There is a lot of fiberglass work, pinholes, cleaning and acid-etching, etc before the first coat of primer goes on! I've gone through a couple of tubes of red glazing putty (two-part! not the one part crap!). After putting the glazing putty on, 98% of it gets sanded right back off. The putty is used to fill small imperfections and dings, as well as fill pinholes in fiberglass. Seems like there is about a gazillion pinholes in all of the fiberglass components that come with the Van's RV kits. (shhhhhhh! don't mention the word "gazillion" around Obama. He might decide to spend it!)
Anyways, after filling and sanding, and filling and sanding, and filling and sanding, I finally got the surface to a smoothness that I could be satisfied with. Time for some paint.
I'm using Stewart Systems Aero paint, which is a water based poly. Here's a (sideways) picture of my horizontal stab, elevators, and fiberglass empennage fairing. Just finished the silver streak last night. After untaping everything, I found a little area on the elevator tips that didn't get enough coverage. The elevators were hanging - tip down - and I just didn't get enough coats on the tips. No biggie. Easy enough to touch up next time I spray some maroon...
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