While I’m undecided on painting the wings just yet, the remaining paint efforts are now starting to dwindle down from being the main project push to simple sideline ancillary tasks now… to be done in between other non-painting tasks.

That being said, today was one of the last big painting push days, where I got a lot of the smaller, low hanging fruit tasks done.

Case in point: here we have the aft nose/avionics installed on the bird, looking pretty spiffy if I do say so myself.

However, notice the gray primer lower side “wing” on each side that is still in gray primer.  This of course needed to be remedied.

Last night I installed the right strake hatch door permanently with A/C grade hardware.  I then filled the 3 exterior Phillip screw heads (“poor man’s clickbonds”) with Icing filler.  Today I sanded down the filler and door surface in the last prep for a coat of sealer before painting it white.  Note the plastic covering the entire bird (I also painted the aft bottom hinge black, but forgot to get a pic).

Since the left strake hatch door’s exterior surface is already good without it being installed, I prepped it, shot it with a coat of sealer and then painted it white as well.

Here I’m painting the right outboard strip on the upper cowling white . . .

and here is both outboard sides of the upper cowling painted white.  Obviously this carries my color scheme all the way from nose to tail on this bird.

Finally, I also shot the lower side “wings” (that I pointed out were gray above) on the aft nose/avionics cover white as well.

I’ll note that I also spent a good couple of hours this morning with the canopy in place on the bird taping up what will be the black stripes on each side edge of the canopy frame.  I then spent nearly an hour taping up the canopy to ensure no errant paint got anywhere it wasn’t supposed to.  I then shot the black stripes outside, but it was so dark I couldn’t get a good pic of them.

I finished well after midnight, and packed it in as soon as I was sure the paint was curing well.  No issues!

Pressing forward.