Steve Eberhart wrote: > I can't stress rip off paint store loud enough. I am currently painting > a friend's RV-8 with PPG Concept. Over $300 a gallon when you add in > the hardener. Paint and primer for this plane is going to be over $1,000.
I'm using DuPont's "cheap" stuff, Nason. It's equivalent to PPG's cheap stuff, Omni. If you walk in and ask for basecoat/clearcoat, they'll sell you the expensive stuff. But I'm told by the paint store guys that REAL painters only use that stuff for repairs, where color matching is critical. For an overall repaint (that's us), the cheap stuff is almost every bit as good. The big difference is color matching and coverage is not quite as good, but I don't have much to cover anyway, since it's all just the same color primer. By inexpensive, I'm talking 1/3 or 1/4 the price of the good stuff. More on this later, but there are a couple of pictures at the bottom of http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/bodywork/index.html , taken just as the flames were making the bottom of my plane red, Tornado Red, that is. More on this later as work permits... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML at hiwaay.net see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
