Fiberglass finishing, sort of

Apologies for the lack of updates.  Work has been busy, so we’ve been spending most of the airplane time doing work, rather than writing about it.

The fiberglass comes with a ton of holes (known as “pinholes”) that need to be filled before it can be painted.  We’re going to have ours professionally painted 6-12 months after flying, so for now, priority one is making sure those holes don’t get filled with dirt, grease, etc that’ll be difficult to remove later.  After talking with the paint shop we’ll probably end up using, they said they can do all the work to make things look nice (e.g. transitions from the plexiglass to fiberglass, filling the rest of the pinholes), so we’re going to do the bare minimum at this point.  We’re not great at body work and don’t care to learn or spend the time doing it.

As such, Kelly did some basic filling with an epoxy/acetone mix, then after curing and a little sanding, we sprayed with some high build primer.  Here I am doing the doors.

Here’s Kelly working on the cabin top.  You can see the parts that are shiny (done) and not shiny (not done).

We’re still deciding whether we need to prime the top.