HI Pete and Mark,

It's the 2 part automotive paint that Radio South sells and you can also get it at your local PPG Automotive paint stores. If your not familiar with it- it is really great stuff. It part of a full line of finishing products including primers, and clear coats. Tony does mono/ultrakote matching and it is easy to work with.

This is actually a plane that Mike Hester built for a customer, and the plane is set up for electric. Mike went way out and put together probably the lightest electric v2.2 built to date. Mike did the fiberglass work with epoxy, I think he used west systems and .5oz cloth. He also brushed on the first coat of K-36 primer. What he told me is he brushed on 3 oz of primer.

I took the plane from there and sanded off about half the primer using 220 and 280 grit paper. I shot a second coat of primer and sanded that smooth with 400.

It's been challenging for me to do this super light paint job, the next part of this is wet sanding with 2000 grit, buffing and polishing. There is 4 light coats of color on this plane so I am hoping I can wet sand it just smooth enough to take out the texture and then buff and polish it to a smooth high gloss....

Yes Pete there is only 1.35 of color on the plane after about 2.5 oz of primer. It's got solid coverage and is fairly thick looking at the taped edges.

I am anxious to finish things tonight, if this plane polishes out at this weight, wow -