Painting The Tail Assembly

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I'm Going To Aircraft Builders Hell !!!!

Using House Paint For The Paint Job.

My 303 is going to have the PT-19 paint job.
The PT-19 was a WWII trainer. (blue fuselage and yellow wings)

 

I have talked to people who have used house paint and have read a number
of articles. Most people are successful in using this method.

 

For the UV protection I used charcoal black house paint. The paint was thinned
with Flo Trol. The paint was worked into the fabric using a foam brush. Everything was given 2 coats.

On the PT-19 the rudder is black along the leading edge with a total of 13 red and white stripes.

The red stripes have been applied to the rudder. The white is next.

Here is the horizontal stabelizer painted.

I did have a problem in the painting process.

After the black paint ( UV ) was applied I painted the horizontal stabelizer and the elevator with white house paint. This would give me a briter yellow. It took 3 coats of white paint to get a good coverage. It took 3 coats of yellow paint to
get a really good coverage. Something had to be changed. To many coats
of paint.

On the fin and elevator I did not apply the white paint. There is a little
difference in the shade of yellow when finished between the pieces painted
white and no white paint. The difference is slite and not that noticeable.

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