Another version of my spraying booth, preparing for coating the underside of the wings. A bin-bag , some spare card and a piece of bubble-wrap for masking; not the most sophisticated, but it'll do the job...

Once dry, it's time to paper the fuselage. The tissue is not of the very best quality, and I'm not the best craftsman at this stuff, but all in all it goes off quite well enough...

With the use of the heat-gun, the covering is over in record time. In normal fashion, it takes a day for each piece to be dry and shrunk enough to continue, but this tumbles down to half an hour per piece with the blower. Early evening, then, I can once again adopt the cardboard cabin for spraying the fuselage. Nose down in a box, a couple of sheets of paper to mask the wings and we're off..! Here's the underside done; the yellowy stripes at the wing roots are the painter's tape, not yet removed. The white speckles on the nacelle are only reflections from the flash, but they do look odd in the photo....

And this is how she is looking tonight...

It'll be left overnight, now; I've a couple more details to sort out, such as painting in windows and the like. Not a bad day; I'm quite pleased (and tired, again...). More tomorrow; the end is in sight, I think.

Once dry, it's time to paper the fuselage. The tissue is not of the very best quality, and I'm not the best craftsman at this stuff, but all in all it goes off quite well enough...

With the use of the heat-gun, the covering is over in record time. In normal fashion, it takes a day for each piece to be dry and shrunk enough to continue, but this tumbles down to half an hour per piece with the blower. Early evening, then, I can once again adopt the cardboard cabin for spraying the fuselage. Nose down in a box, a couple of sheets of paper to mask the wings and we're off..! Here's the underside done; the yellowy stripes at the wing roots are the painter's tape, not yet removed. The white speckles on the nacelle are only reflections from the flash, but they do look odd in the photo....

And this is how she is looking tonight...

It'll be left overnight, now; I've a couple more details to sort out, such as painting in windows and the like. Not a bad day; I'm quite pleased (and tired, again...). More tomorrow; the end is in sight, I think.

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