Anticipation! 😉

[Ironflight]

Rocket: “They tell me that John Stahr is arriving today!!”

Tundra: “Don’t get too excited kid - I’ve been flying ten years, and no one has painted me yet…..”

 

[Kyle Boatright]

Paul, you'd better slow down or you're gonna run out of hangar space.

 

[Ironflight]

Paul, you'd better slow down or you're gonna run out of hangar space.

Too Late…….

 

[Bandera]

I don’t know why but Valkyrie is one of my favorite jobs. Going to be tuff to beat it.

 

[Daddyman58]

Too Late…….

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Daddyman58

 

[Ironflight]

I don’t know why but Valkyrie is one of my favorite jobs. Going to be tuff to beat it.

I think you’ll like this one then…….

You and Grady did such an amazing job on the Val - it has held up well, both as a design and as a paint job!

 

[mburch]

One of these years, Paul is going to surprise us with a standard two-color paint job!

 

[Mel]

One of these years, Paul is going to surprise us with a standard two-color paint job!

I wouldn't hold my breath!.....Having said that, isn't that what he currently has on the Tundra?

 

[Jerry Fischer]

keep it lite, you'll fly faster...

 

[RWoodard]

See if he’ll give you a deal for painting two airplanes in the same visit!

 

[Ironflight]

Well…it’s happening! Long day yesterday ended with the big parts in primer - lots of little stuff needs priming yet (separately). Paint “booth” is simply a plastic wall to keep the dust “out” and the overspray “in” - there’s an RV-15 project on the other side of the plastic after all - can’t slow that down!

 

[iwannarv]

Rocket: "Don't mouth off old man, or you'll become RV15 parts."

 

[Ironflight]

See John. See John paint. See John paint gold. “John, Those are really wide pin stripes!!”

 

[Jerry Fischer]

See John. See John paint. See John paint gold. “John, Those are really wide pin stripes!!”

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Paul, I just know you're gonna surprise us when it's finished..

 

[Ironflight]

OK, here’s an inside tip - if you like to use Cad-Plates screws (we all went to Stainless decades ago because…”stainless”…. But now many of us are switching back because Cad-Plated are harder and don’t strip out or gall - as much), design gold into your paint scheme…..

 

[TS Flightlines]

OK, here’s an inside tip - if you like to use Cad-Plates screws (we all went to Stainless decades ago because…”stainless”…. But now many of us are switching back because Cad-Plated are harder and don’t strip out or gall - as much), design gold into your paint scheme…..

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Hey Paul----since you and Louise build and paint so much, figure out a way to make a plastic partition with a garage door opener on a rail . Hit the button and whamo

 

[Ironflight]

Hey Paul----since you and Louise build and paint so much, figure out a way to make a plastic partition with a garage door opener on a rail . Hit the button and whamo

Well the -15 isn’t going to fit through the 30’ wide shop door, so she’ll have to assemble and paint it in the hangar….much bigger tent I suspect!

 

[Ironflight]

“Definitely paint the circuit boards!”

I had a brief thread the other night that was asking about painting the FLyLED’s wingtip circuit boards. Paul at FlyLED’s answered my email within minutes, so I deleted the thread…but the answer was “paint ahead!” I used maskign tape on the flat LED modules and got a bottle of liquid latex masking from the hobby shop for the little round LED’s. Ten minutes of work, thirty minutes dry time, and then a quick shot of flat black over everything - the masking peeled right off after the paint dried. I like the results!


After the paint dried - two of the masking spots removed - easy!


Bottle of Liquid Latex masking from Michael’s - this would last a hundred years at the rate I used it!


Square LED’s could have easily been masked using the liquid latex, but I had already done them when I started on the little round LED’s

 

[Jonnyb]

That looks really good.

Did you do anything to the boards themselves before paint?

 

[Ironflight]

That looks really good.

Did you do anything to the boards themselves before paint?

Nope - just a quick cleaning with Goof-Off to get little stickers off

 

[BobTurner]

Well, it looks nice. Any idea how warm those boards and LEDS get, when parked in the Nevada sun?

 

[Ironflight]

Well, it looks nice. Any idea how warm those boards and LEDS get, when parked in the Nevada sun?

More worried about the lenses melting….which I have seen them do on some RV’s!