New Paint

[hharney]

No pictures yet but the aircraft is completely stripped. They really jumped on it last week and removed all that lacquer. The lacquer has to come off because if you spray the polyurethane over lacquer it blisters and bubbles. It's bare bones metal and today they gave it the first shot of primer. Tomorrow I will go down and mount the boom fairings and wingtips so that the second sanding coat of primer can be applied. All the controls are still off and each control is painted independently on it's own. All the little dings and stuff will be filled and a third primer coat will be applied. Then on Wednesday the Matterhorn White will be applied to the entire aircraft. I will have some photos to post tomorrow night. It won't be long now.

This is another SNJ (not the one above being painted) that was delivered to the shop so they could match the paint on the T6 (soon to be SNJ) that is above. At least 2JF is not lonely, lot's of neat stuff down there.