Monthly Archives: September 2015

Fuselage 20 – More Priming

This entry was posted in Fuselage Main Fuselage on September 27, 2015 by Peter

That pile of parts waiting to be primed was larger than I thought! I had to do 3 more sessions today to finish priming all of them. I forgot to take pictures early on, but here are a few of the parts in progress. Not a whole lot else to say, as I followed the normal progress. You can see the new hose I bought of off Amazon in the first picture. It wasn’t very expensive, and its the highest quality of the three hoses I now have.

These are the parts I finished earlier in the day, but forgot to take photos of. Its just boring old priming anyways.

A few website changes

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on September 21, 2015 by Peter

Recently I made a few changes to the website, that I had been meaning to do since day one, but I was either too lazy, or stumbled in figuring out how to make it work. Previously, all my hours were added up by hand. I kept track by putting the hours in the title. The index page was also manually built, and I frequently got far behind in my updates to the index.

So now, I have the hours totaling automatically. This is done both as a total value, and by individual category. I was also able to get the index page to be dynamically created. The end result is that when I now create a new post, all my total hour calculations are made and updated for me, and the post is added automatically to the index page. Its pretty transparent to anyone reading the site, but for me, its a HUGE timesaver!

Fuselage 19 – Priming multiple parts

This entry was posted in Fuselage Main Fuselage on September 20, 2015 by Peter

I have a substantial pile of parts that are awaiting priming. The first three photos are all the parts I brought to the paint booth to paint. Both the forward and aft upper fuselage skins, and a large number of additional interior parts are in the queue.

I stapled some wire to the ceiling in a couple places to hold the larger skins for priming.

I wasn’t able to get to every part I had as my wife called just before I mixed the primer to tell me she had locked her keys in the car. Well 3 hours later I was back to finish what I started.