Looking good you young whipper snapper. No go do your home work, You're making us olde fahrts look bad.
Can't wait to see it in color Matt.
Thanks Ty. The base color is on now (silver), and now here is why, and it is hard to say this but, the d***n thing is overweight, but grandpa says it isn't. I still need to sand out this last batch of prime he put on (he is getting VERY trigger happy). Grandpa wanted to prime on the bad spots meanwhile I reached the point of it is good enough, but he didn't think so.
I weighed it and the airframe weighs 39 ounces (story coming) and with the powertrain 53 ounces
. Now I began thinking of ways to cut weight, and I looked at the landing gear, weighed the aluminum strut and the thing weighs 3.5 ounces!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I'm probably going to spend some money and get carbon fiber wheelpants from Windy when he gets back from VSC. So now, take away 3.5 ounces and the thing now weighs with everything ready to fly, 50 ounces. Now tomorrow, I am MAKING grandpa help me sand the hell out of it, and hopefully get rid of 3 ounces (I know he didn't spray on that much, but I need to get rid of something). If I get rid of the 3 ounces, it now weighs 47, which is now becoming decent. I looked at the wing loading (assuming I did the calculations right) and it is ok as of right now.
I keep insisting the darn thing is overweight, and grandpa insists that it is fine and I'm making myself crazy (hopefully he is). He weighed his rebuilt Big Job, and that plane (and really has loaded paint on) weighs 47 ounces, and that doesn't make me happy at all.
I'll let you guys know how much weight I take off tomorrow. I am now coming up with a different paint scheme to keep the weight down.