Originally Posted by Techydave

I saw my first swallow today over Swithland Reservoir in Leicestershire which means that the spraying season can’t be far away. The PIK 20 fuselage is going to be boring white so I dusted it off and gave the areas of repair a quick flash of black paint.

Why? This is then removed with wet & dry and all the minor imperfections that are normally invisible until you have just applied the final coat become easy to see and fix with a dab of acrylic stopper.

It was as I sanded away the black paint that I realised my mistake – the black paint doesn’t show up at all on the carbon tows I used for the repair, so after that stopping is applied and rubbed down I’ll give it a coat of a different colour. Now I’ve got some white paint somewhere ……..