I got several private emails about how ugly my plane was going to be after I'd painted it red. But who cares, it's my plane, right? Then my wife spied the photo of the red GP-4 in the recent issue of Kitplanes that I left sitting next to my throne, and that was "all she wrote". She says that's just too much red for any one place, so it'll have to be some other color on top. Hey, she's the boss, and she's probably right too. Now I'm thinking of leaving the bottom red, making the sides a medium gray, and making the top a light gray. We'll see how that goes. She says I've spent so much time making it perfect, that it should be a special paint job (hmmm, sounds like I've heard that before too).
So the bottom will stay red, but the rest will be something else. I may even go ahead and fly the thing in primer on top, and worry about paint later. But for now, it's in primer and I'm going to get on with other matters. Once the plane is built, my next mission is a major remodeling of our house, which will include a paint booth, complete with filtration and a zillion lights. They've been ripping out all the T-12 fluorescent lights at work and replacing them with T-8s, and throwing the old fixtures out by the hundred. They are very nice heavy duty units, but 277 volts. But I've discovered that by cutting one blue wire from each ballast and wiring them to 115V, they work just great and the bulbs last forever! So I have 36 four-tube fixtures stacked up in the corner. That ought to light up the whole basement nicely! Anyway, my point is that I may just wait until I have a proper paint booth to finish the job... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
