Here we come to the cautionary portion of my tale. After much finishing and prepping, I hurried down to my "paint room" with a can of primer that looked like the one I had always used. I didn't spray a test spray on the box like I usually do and that would prove disastrous. The paint came out almost like powder and didn't even make the model black. I thought that maybe I just needed more coats, nope, same results. At the end of it all I had a 65 dollar model that looked like it was wearing a fuzzy sweater. I was pissed. If my wife hadn't been there to calm me down I probably would have seen just how far the plane could have flown. So, what did I learn from this? Well, always, ALWAYS test your paint on a piece of cardboard or something before spraying. Had I done that it would have saved me a ton of time and effort and the final product would have looked much better. As it was, I had to soak the plane in simple green for a week. That took care of most of the fuzzyness and also destroyed my green stuff plug. I had to sand the entire surface of the plane and re-prime it. The end result? Well, I'll let you guys be the judge. I'm not happy with it at all. It didn't take paint as well as it should and the replacement plug I made didn't fill in all the way so you can still see some of the slot. I will be buying another one and trying again. Here ya go, enjoy the pics.
