This was my first attempt to paint a pattern fuse (Hydeout), and the results weren't pretty. It looks ok at a distance, but up close there are some pretty blatant flaws. I have an idea about some of the things that went wrong, but am hopping to get some ideas about how to avoid problems on the next one, and maybe how to fix some of the flaws on this one.

1. Bleeding under the masking. I used 1/4'' flex tape, and this was some pretty old stuff, and I think this may have been part of the problem. Also, I may have pulled it a little tight while working it around curves.

2. Uneven coat. I was using a new Kobalt gravity feed gun from Lowes, and had trouble controlling the mix. The instructions were no help. If anyone has experience with this gun, I would aprecoiate it.

3. Pinholes. I thought I had caught them all. [:@]

I am going to live with most of it, but there are a couple of realy bad bleed throughs (blue over yellow.) I was thinking of taking a small sanding block and CAREFULLY trying to sand down to the yellow and touching up either with an airbrush, or an artists brush.

Help would be appreciated, and good luck to all the guys at the World's.

Sorry, no pictures, I lost my camera's patch cord on vacation and am waiting for another to arrive.

Edit;

The paint is PPG concept I got from Radio South about three and a half years ago, the same time I got the planes (2 of them). I got sick and they went into storage until now. Would shelf life be an issue?