February 5, 2023 – N174PM gets paint!
I had the paint done at Flying Colors of Texas in Gainesville. It took two months, which included the holiday season, so I really can’t complain about the time it took. The price was also reasonable. There’s not much to describe here, so I’ll just put the pictures in gallery format.
June 25, 2020 – I experimented with vinyl.
I’ve been intrigued by the use of vinyl instead of paint on the airplane. I decided to give it a try.
I ordered a 3×5 piece of 3M 2080 Gloss White. I decided to try it on the right elevator.
The first thing I wanted to do is to paint the leading edge row of rivets. This turned out to be a waste of time because you can’t EVEN see these rivets when the elevator is installed.
I cut a piece of vinyl large enough to cover the top of the elevator. It’s all pretty straight-forward, after watching a few dozen You-Tube videos.
Here’s the final product, for now.
Lessons learned:
There are a couple of hard wrinkles, that will make it necessary to redo this. I kind of wish I’d started with the bottom of the elevator. I did the top because of how I’d wrap the trailing edge.
The other part I have to figure out is how to do tight curves like the tips.
Time: 1:40
