Day: August 19, 2011

Because at last the new pod is no longer blue! It’s a delicate shade of grey. The weather forecast was for a warmer day than yesterday but with a little bit of wind, but I couldn’t let that worry me. I had to get the pod primed!

What can I say? Everything went like clockwork for a change. My idea was to mount the pod nose upwards (of course) on our fold-up clothes line and it worked like a charm. The actual spraying I found a complete doddle – didn’t get even one run or anything like it. The only problem is that working outside, there’s an awful lot of tack flying around in the air and even though I gave the pod a good wipe before starting, the paint has a lot of light ‘fluff’ on it. That shouldn’t be a problem with this primer coat because I’ve made it nice and thick and I’m going to give it a careful rub down all over, to flatten it. But it will matter when I do the finishing coat, so I may have to have a rethink of how, and where, I’ll spray that.

Here are a couple of shots taken shortly after I finished.

I was even surprised at how quick and easy it was to clean the gun up afterwards. My aerosol can of grey for the panel also arrived today as well as the two new bolts for the rudder panel base plate, so now I’m ready to make some really great strides forward. Just hope that the weather keeps holding and I might still make my August target to get MYRO back together again.