<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS">just bought a top flite gold ed P-51. i'm trying to save it for this winter or early spring next year before i begin building it, if i can hold out that long. i got it early because of a good deal through tower hobbies. some kind of power deal. i've been wanting one for a long time but never got around to it. 140.00. the other 30.00 it would have cost me, went for the 'B' model conversion kit and a couple other small items. ANYHOO... i've never painted anything of this size with anything other than multiplerattle cans. i do know how to paint and must say i do a pretty damn good job with it. i want to glass it with PolyC and wrap my fingers around my new HVLP detail gun and some paint from warbirdcolors.com. not knowing how many pints is in a spray can (maybe 10 or so oz.'s???)poses a problem to figuring out how many pints of paint i need for the plane. i'm going with the light gull grey on the belly and the o.d. green on the rest of it just like the Shangri-La paint job. plus a thing of primer and a little black and white for D-Day stripes. kind of doing my own thing, but that's the basics of it. they say for the HVLP guns to thin about 25-30% with water, but i'm not how far a pint will go. they offer the grey and o.d. green in 1/2 pint, 1 pint, and 1 quart. the black and white is offered in those sizes, plus 1/4 pint. now 1 pint being 16 oz., thinnedat 30% would put it atjust under 21 oz. with possibly2-3 light coats and a wet coat, should a pint of the green and a pint of the grey and a pint of the primer be enough? i will be buying some cheepy latexpaint to figure out the detail gun as i have never used it and don't know how it reacts. but by then i should be fine with it. can anyone with experience with these paints and size of plane please help me out. the stuff is pretty spendy at 20 bucks a pint.
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