Painting Right Wing

 We masked off the right wing tip and painted the wing white, then once dried, masked off the white portion and painted the wingtip orange.  This is the same process we used for the left wing.  It would be easier to just paint the whole wing white and then paint the wingtip orange, but that uses more paint and adds more weight to the wing, so we opted to do this in two steps.  After spraying an orange coat, we immediately remove the strip of masking tape on the border between the orange and white.  This allows the orange paint (while still wet) to flow slightly onto the white to smooth the border (while still keeping a sharp line).  We sprayed 2 coats of orange, sanding between coats.  Before spraying another coat of orange, we reapplied masking tape at the border between white/orange.  This step only takes a few minutes, so is not a big deal and prevents a paint ridge from building up between the white and orange sections.

After the 2nd coat of orange dried, we noticed a decent sized paint defect in the orange on the top surface (an odd globule of paint, perhaps from the paint gun), so Michael shaved off the paint bump using a special razor tool, and we'll sand and polish that out next.  Hours: 9

Re-masking at the white/orange border