Noble Build

[AirFox]

I'd rather be out flying my Kitfox, but I have to build it first. I got my first two cross coats of Polyspray on today. Tomorrow morning I'll wet sand and spray the final coats of Polyspray.

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Hard day of work! I'm ready for the hot tub!

Good luck to all you builders out there!

Scott

[Jfquebec]

Thank's for update..

[Floog]

Beautiful! See ya Sat. for a close-up 'inspection'....

[mr bill]

With metal planes, paint is the last thing to do. My covering and painting are done at last!! I am about half done.

[jtpitkin06]

John, the washers that you talking about are 1 inch x 3/16 hole or smaller?

The washers I used are about 3/4 od with a 3/16 hole. The first ones I installed were not tapered and I did not like the ridge. That's when I put them on a mandrel to taper the outside edge for a cleaner and smoother look.

John

[HighWing]

Great observation. With the plastic airplanes, paint is after a year of flying per the frequent need to do some serious tweaking.

[AirFox]

I got my gear and flaperon brackets back from the Powder coat shop in Polyfiber Federal gray. The gear looks pretty good in front of my Alaska Bushwheels.

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It took me two days to install and sand the grooves out of the strut faring kit. Lots of work on this task! I was able to get the grooves completly sanded out. Lots of sandpaper needed!

This past weekend I primered The Flaperons struts and access panels.
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At this point everything firewall back is primed/polysprayed and ready for the final top coat. I have an exciting few days ahead of me. With any luck I should have the plane on its wheels within a week or two.

Scott

[AirFox]

PS -- Thanks to John and Debra Mcbean for all your help and advice on this part of the project.

Scott

[AirFox]

I got the wings and fuse painted today. Turned out great! I'm going to paint a black stripe down the fuse & the tail feathers tomorrow.
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[SkySteve]

So far ... I like it! The black stripe should really set it off.