Just finished my Starfires camo paint job--I was surprised at the amount of time it took to do. I own a bodyshop and I have spent less time to paint a whole car!

Heres another--

Looks good,

Is there a different scheme to tell bottom from top? That'll sure camoflauge itself against the sky pretty well..

Hank

Looks great!!. Unfortunately or fortunately, I did not get to paint my star-fire before it caught fire.

What are you going to power it with?

Later

Ben

The bottom has orange tips on the wings and stabs to help with visibility. It has an OS 91 and Dynamax fan unit. This plane I bought from Scott Ramberg and is a great flyer.

You have done a great job there, enjoy!! If you have never flown a Starfire you will LOVE it. I have had four of them now and only lost one, I sold the others when I was done with them and wanted something different. Funny though I kept going back to the Starfires, may again LOL.
Roger Shook

Can you tell me how you painted the seperation between the colors? I recognize it is not taped but I am not sure how to get the blended seperation lines that you have done so well.

thanks
J. Hann
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J hann

This is one product I've read up on camo and feathered edges. It a raised foam tape and proper aiming of spray gun is the trick.

actually, all of the color seperations were done by masking off, the areas previously applied and adding the next color.
It was a lot of work, but the K&B epoxy paints setup pretty quickly and the end result was well worth the effort. After a couple of days of drying time a bit of light wet sanding prepped the surface for the clear. I think that what really helped the most was that the K&B epoxy paint had lots of pigment, and required very little paint to give the right colors, using thin light coats., and no more than needed.
I really loved this "WINTER CAMO" scheme, but it only netted several 2nd and 3rd place awards at the meets and finally got one 1st. After a rough landing messed up the belly, at the last meet of that season, I decided to repaint the jet and got a win at the first meet I went to the next season.
I always use a narrow 1/8 striping tape and then mask off to it with masking tape and masking paper.
Roger