Finishing Topics
Paint & Interiors

Aircraft Painting 101 (vhs) $25.95 An excellent 2 hour video in which Sam James takes you, in detail, through the finishing, priming, and painting of his RV-4 with the Dupont Veriprime and Chromabase systems. This video is not as slickly produced as some others, but the vast quantity of practical information it contains more than makes up for it. In it Sam takes you the complete process of working an RV fuel tank, wheel pant, and detailed design on a horizontal stabilizer. By the producer of Fiberglass 101.

Includes:

The construction of an economical paint booth
Preparation and sanding
Filling pin holes
Light filling eliminating low spots
Flushing rivet heads
Respirators and eye protection
Choosing color schemes
Mixing materials
Use of a spray gun
Final cleaning, acid etch, Alodine
Priming
Base coat prep
Spraying the base coat
Masking for stripes and other designs
Spraying the clear coat
Alternative materials for painting fiberglass parts