A Milestone Has Been Reached

ptrotter · Post by **ptrotter** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:51 pm

I've reached a milestone in my RV-8 construction. All of the metalwork for the fuselage has been completed. It is now ready for the interior to be painted and the wiring to begin. Hopefully this weekend I will paint the interior and then it is on to the fun part

tshort · Post by **tshort** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:23 pm

Paul-

Awesome! That looks great. Congrats. Make sure and post some pics / tips about how you go about painting the inside!

Thomas

JohnR · Post by **JohnR** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:33 pm

Paul, looks great! Congratulations on getting ot that point. Like Thomas mentioned any pointers you come up with on painting the interior would be appreciated.

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:50 am

Paul, that is GREAT!

Looks awesome!

CJ

dons · Post by **dons** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:00 am

Looks really good Paul. Hope you have a bit more space to get around all sides than that one picture would indicate. Must be a great feeling to have that much of the airframe completed.

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:37 pm

Reminds me of an old Spitfire interior. Looks great! What color are you going to paint it?

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:57 pm

Chad, that IS the finish color!

CJ

ptrotter · Post by **ptrotter** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:50 pm

Actually the cockpit is going to be painted gray. Anything that is not visible will remain the primer green. I had toyed with the idea of leaving it all green but it is a very flat paint and it gets dirty very easily. I haven't decided yet whether to paint the panel gray or black. And the outside I have no idea. I really want to paint the entire exterior flat black, but that is not very practical

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:40 pm

Who cares about practical!!?? I think flat black would be feakin' sweet!!

SERIOUSLY!

Wicked Stick · Post by **Wicked Stick** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:35 pm

Nice photos Paul,

I see you decided on two access plates instead of one large one for the baggage to instrument panel area. Is it entirely plate nuts or is there a hinge pin on the bottom ?

I need to mask off areas and paint mine as well. I'll post a couple pics when done. Might be a while though, as I have been really swamped with work lately.

ptrotter · Post by **ptrotter** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:26 pm

Dave,

Yes, I made 2 access panels. I wanted to keep the section in the center for strength. There is a hinge on the bottom so they fold down.

Today I made my first try at painting something other than primer. The only spray painting I've ever done has been the primer on the plane, so I really don't know what I'm doing. It came out acceptable, which is better than I expected:-) The only problem seems to be a little dust on the parts. Unfortunately I don't have a clean place to spray. It will have to do. The following picture shows the parts I did tonight. The paint is a 2-part epoxy and it went on pretty good. It took a lot less paint than I expected. The only annoying thing is cleaning the gun. I got spoiled with the water reducible primer I used that would clean up with water. I'll do some more parts tomorrow and then on the weekend I will do the inside of the fuselage.