> A KR of Color......the new wave is coming. Just wait!!! > > > WHEEW DOGGY, IS THAT THING RED !!!!!!
I really had no idea that I'd paint it red until last week when I bought the paint. I'm surprised that nobody's pointed out that the manual says to paint the thing white yet. My argument is that the structure of this plane is wood, not composite. All the composite stuff does while on the ground is help the airfoils and decks retain their shape (kinda like fabric on a steel tube plane). The spar and landing gear take the 1g loads while sitting on the ground. When flying, the skin temperature will be down to ambient about 100 yards down the runway on takeoff, if not while taxiing, so it's not a factor. I'm going to paint the thing a light gray on top, ever since I discovered that silver is pure aluminum metallic chips, which wouldn't be good for my "perfect" antenna. Right now only he very bottom is red, but if I get one more weekend that's still in the 70's, I'll paint the tops of the stub wings and the side of the fuselage. I can paint the other stuff later inside. That is, if I ever get off work. Right now I'm finishing up an 18 hour day at the salt mine. At least I get paid overtime... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML at hiwaay.net see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
