Painting still in progress...

.... But now the fuselage and canopy are done and I am just completing the Service Bulletin (SB 12-11-09) on the landing gear. We should have the fuselage back on wheels shortly and back to my workshop to mount the engine.

Here are pictures of the progress of the hard work required by the bi-color scheme of the fuselage:

Prior to action, the masking dude is introducing the model to the artist painter Terry, aka Claude Monnet:

Fuselage ready for primer followed by white paint, Mr. Monnet is happy with the shape of his model:

Note the SB skin reinforcements are now white:

Here, in the absence of the masking dude who took refuge in the mountains, Terry starts the work on masking for the blue layer:

Masking for blue has been completed, very little of our model is showing:

The blue has been shot:

... et voilà:

 

Note that during my absence, Noel Fallwell helped for this phase of the painting and also took the pictures. Thank you Noel!

 

Reason for my absence: I was helping Kim Mitchell from Jefferson with his SB. I had earlier borrowed his SB parts that came earlier than mine. Now was time to return them from my own SB parts and give him a hand.