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cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:40 am

Man I'm on pins and needles waiting for this to come out of the shop!!

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:10 am

cjensen wrote:Man I'm on pins and needles waiting for this to come out of the shop!!

you're assuming I'll post another picture before first flight

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:15 am

Can't wait to see the dam picture!

CJ

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:41 pm

Yesterday after I left the shop, they had left over epoxy primer and needed to dump it or spray it. So the inside of the cowl got a liberal coating and sealed things up nicely. I won't be worried about oil soaking in here.

Today we did a final wipe down and shot some epoxy on the fuselage

Found a couple new dings I hadn't noticed before. they were outies from the bucking bar or dropped tool.

Man cannot live by airplane alone and Corky(shop owner) has invited us to his yearly horseshoe tourney/walleye feed tomorrow. Monday we will do the final prep & wet sand. More color on Tuesday is the plan. WHEW!

Post by **Spike** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 5:47 pm

Is it Tuesday yet?

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 6:42 pm

Spike wrote:Is it Tuesday yet?

I'm in the 1 step back position. After a full shift starting at 0530 today, We got the rest of the wet sanding done today, found a few pinoles and other blems to fix. BUT Corky had 2 damaged rigs come in, that may take first position tomorrow.

I'm off for 2 days and hopeful we can get through the color shoots.

camera battery is charged.

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:09 pm

since work has been getting in the way of my build I'll show a different color picture.

working with the USGS to track water quality and travel times, we did a dye injection at our intake this morning.

This is the tailrace outlet 15 seconds after 6gals of dye added at our inlet

45 seconds after add...looked like tomato juice.

~1 minute, looking downstream 100yds

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:50 pm

It's tuesday and no color today....But I did a trial run on the striping 1 side today(only took 4hrs and wasted $20 worth of 3M Thinline), then helped clean the booth and prep for tomorrow.

0630 is go time, the booth is all N155BK fuselage tomorrow. We're looking at 10-12hrs to get all 3 colors and clearcoat. Wish us luck

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:49 am

it begins 8am started shooting yellow base

1120 here I am running stripe 1.

a couple hours later we're getting there

oh yeah don't forget to do the other side

this is around 1600, been striping for almost 5hrs

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:10 pm

taped off for Plum Crazy Purple

time is 1800hrs, purple base is good

masking off for the green

1900hrs Big Bad Green

2030hrs clearcoat done!

I'll get some better pics out of the booth... tomorrow after some rest

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:28 am

Wow Brian!

That is going to look SWEET!

Plum crazy, huh! Nice!

You might be a Mopar fan?

CJ

Post by **Spike** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:13 am

Mopar rules the earth, don't forget it.

Nice looking colors, I approve.

Spike

Brantel · Post by **Brantel** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:25 am

Looking great!!!

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:44 am

Oh man!!! I am SO STOKED to see this thing done!!!

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:48 am

It's even better in real life. we shoved it outside this morning....someone pinch me.

Chad, thanks again for the outstanding drawing to convert my idea to paper to final paint.

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:19 am

No problem buddy!! Looks fantastic!!!

BSwayze · Post by **BSwayze** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:31 pm

Oh man, Brian,

That's FANTASTIC!! Before seeing it, I would have never guessed that the combination of green, purple, and yellow would look so good. I've learned something and I love it!

dons · Post by **dons** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:37 pm

Outstanding Brian, that has to be motivational for you, it sure is for me!

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:59 pm

Another good day in the booth. Got most of the other yellow items sprayed.
the wheel pants/fairings take some serious time to finish nicely.

Purple went on like a mirror.

Is it perfect? no. there are a couple little flaws, but it is turning out fabulous.

Don't kid yourself if you think you can get this level of paint for $1000 in your garage. The gun we are using cost $800, and the guy pulling the trigger has been shooting paint for >30yrs. BTW there will be no reason to cut & buff.

I was always a Chevy muscle car guy, BUT the Mopar of the late 60'/early 70's had the best bada$$ colors.

Bruce, The colors were courtesy of my granddaughters( of course paint it like a rainbow was also mentioned). They have now been tasked with coming up with a name for N155BK. The layout took a while with Chad drawing up many many sketches before we found the one. In the end it is even a bit different than the sketch.

The Future looks bright.

Post by **Spike** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:27 am

That looks really really nice. This is some great motivation dude!

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