NetHeads,

I'm seriously considering starting the paint process soon.  Since my plane
is made up of a bunch of separate pieces, rather than one whole, I could
theoretically paint it a little at a time.  Of course all at once would be
better, but I'm toying with painting the whole top one day, the bottom the
next, and clearcoat the next, since the top will be one color and the bottom
another.  Wings can definitely come much later.  Anyway, the reason for this
post is that I bought the 43430 HVLP paint gun from Harbor Freight on sale
for something like $50, so I'm looking for tips on HVLP use, and a refresher
on painting, since it's been 15 years since I painted a car.  Anyway, I
stumbled across this site at
http://www.thebugshop.org/bsfqpnt.htm and feel it's an excellent refresher
course.  And more importantly, he used this exact paint gun.  Check it out
and save it if you're going to paint your plane yourself.  It's pretty good
source of real information.  Yes, I have several books on the subject too,
but this is good stuff, and covers just about every aspect of painting...

Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL
N56ML "at"  hiwaay.net
see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford



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