Looking really good Steve, cant wait to see it fly!

We clearcoated over the factory paint on my Genesis today with PPG DC3000. It came out great. I was afraid to paint the entire plane since I was told this stuff was very heavy (38% solids) so we just painted the chin cowl and the lower colored area of the plane up to the white to ensure it was fuel proof. It came out perfect and its basically invisible relative to the rest of the plane, but it did go on thick. I only gained 1 ounce at the most , but I wish we had experimented 1st and realized we could have thinned it, I would have painted the whole thing with almost the same amount of clearcoat we used on the bottom. I will say this, it is the easiest clear coat I have ever sprayed there was almost no chance of a run unless you stopped in one spot.

Buddy and I experimented after we finished mine and found that contrary to what the mfg says, you can thin it a good bit and it still comes out shiny. PPG says if you thin it, it will blush and lose its luster. Not true, we clear coated an old chin cowl that still had good paint with a batch diluted about 1/2 with DT885 thinner and it went on nice and flat and had a fantastic shine that it never lost.