Andy's Pacer restoration thread...

[CamTom12]

Nice progress despite the week you've had. Keeping your Sister-in-Law in our prayers.

[eskflyer]

All of you are in our prayers and thoughts. Great work on the project.

[stevesaircraft(Bri)]

Some work on the project for this week...



All the sheet metal on for pulling tapes for the stripes...



Center line set with my laser and using a template supplied by Andy for the start of the side stripe..



Cowling taped up..



Side stripe tapes figures out and set..



Tail set down to get a feel of how it's going to look...



Andy and I have been texting back and forth with pictures making sure the stripe is right... in between I have doing little things... like cleaning up and sand blasting the control columns...



Left side stripe tapes applied..



Working on the upper cowl taping off... this has not been finalized yet..

Brian


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[Fred Mayes]

I can't wait to see this Pacer completed.

[Glen Geller]

Working on the upper cowl taping off... this has not been finalized yet..

Brian


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This plane gets better with every post, really fine work. Will you be filling in the top of the cowling in a dark color (black) like a P-51 Mustang, to prevent glare off the hood and matching the glare shield?

[andya]

Glen, it will be the same grey as the stripe..

[stevesaircraft(Bri)]

Stripe is done...



Lots of masking goes into painting stripes...



Rudder masked off and vinyl stencil applied for numbers...



All the metal parts in the paint booth...



Grey paint applied...



Metal parts sprayed in grey...



Top cowl and cowl doors unmasked and put together... these are done..



Got busy and did not take any pics of the red masking... so here it is painted on and unmasked...



Another view..



I set all the metal parts back on and masked the red stripes to match... removed the parts and painted them in the paint booth...

Next week will see some major parts get assembled, might even put the wings on by the end of the week...

Brian...





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[Old3pacer]

Wow! Amazing!!

[JPerkins]

I'm curious. Is there a benefit and/or reason for painting the stripe last? When I did mine I painted the stripe color first, then masked off the stripe and painted the the rest of the fuselage. April 2016 005.jpgApril 2016 015.jpg

[stevesaircraft(Bri)]

I'm curious. Is there a benefit and/or reason for painting the stripe last? When I did mine I painted the stripe color first, then masked off the stripe and painted the the rest of the fuselage. April 2016 005.jpgApril 2016 015.jpg

There are some colors that do not want to cover over darker bases... Yellow and Reds seem to be the worse... having a white base is best for color saturation... at least when it comes to the poly-tones... Stewart Systems covers real well over darker base colors... So I guess the answer depends on the product you are working with... otherwise, it doesn't really matter...

Brian


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