Yea, I've got about pint of actual paint on now. That translated to about a quart and a half of paint shot. One of the problems with using Randolph's or Certified in gallon cans from the aircraft supply places is, the stuff is like maple syrup coming out of the can. You have to cut is something like 1 part paint to 5 parts thinner to get it to go though a gun. Even more when it cold. The stuff I've shot on the Cobra is probabaly thinner 7 to 1. Gets kinda hard to figure out how much actual paint is on the plane. Wish I would have just started with a container and said, this much paint will go on the plane, then I could have ignored the amount of thinner it took to get it to spray gun consistency. But at a guess, I'd say that 3/4 of the original pint is on the plane.
I suppose I'll hit it with at least one more coat.
HI Randy
With the Randolphs or Certified you can use a coat or 2 less dope.It has a lot of solids in it
I use 5 to 6 on SIG , 7 on Brodak ,and about 4 on Randolphs , Certified is very thick too.
. Best way not to rub though is to flatten the plane on the 4th coat with 00000 steel wool or 2000 paper then put a last wet coat on the model.
I also spray all of the ink lines and letra sets or decal with a couple of very fast light coats before starting, then on the first coats I use a fast thinner and switch to a slow drying thinner on the last coat, this lets the dope roll out flat.
On My DREADNOUGHT I use PPG thinner with the dope 85 degree stuff first, then on the last coat I used the Hi Performance clear with the 105 degree thinner, I could have used this with teh dope also.
Randy
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