July 24, 2005

Over the course of this week, I did some wet sanding at home of some of the parts I painted over the weekend. The orange peel was so bad coz of the humidity (that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!) that I practically had to rub down to the primer. It easier to do this sort of stuff at home over the utility sink with running water. At the hangar we don’t have any such luxury.

Yesterday, I took all the parts to the hangar, painted ’em and brought them all back home again. That’s about all I did. I couldn’t spend too much time there as I had to spend some time with Lucy as she’d been away all last week. We went to the Harlequin Cafe downtown Detroit for some eats. Now there was an experience. The humidity was nice and low for painting, and everything turned out so much better for it.

Today, in between stuff, I managed to wetsand some stuff and bring up the finish to a nice shine again with my favourite paint cutting compound, T-Cut (from England of course!)

Here’s the centre console all finished. All I need to do now is add all the bits and install it into the plane. Sweet! I still need to make the armrest cover bit, but that’s easy stuff.

And another shot… You can see the colours now for the faceplates. I’ve got some serious hours into this baby. If you want to add some time to your project, this is the way to do it for sure! There’s a lot to be said for keeping it simple. That’s probably why Cameron is already flying, and I’m still muckin’ about!