Yesterday I used the Icing to fill some divots and major scratches on the bottom cowling.  I then sanded those down and hit them with white primer, and then sanded that.

Today, to get the black accent stripes matching on the front side with the strake bottoms’ black stripes and with the aft top cowling black stripes, I mounted the bottom cowling onto the bird.

Then, for the first time since it’s been painted, I mounted the top cowling to again line up the black stripes with the bottom cowling.

I have to say, my color scheme is coming along as well, or better, than I expected! I’m very happy with it.

Here we have the aft side of the bird with the top cowling in place.

And a couple more side shots.

I then spent well over 2 hours getting the bottom cowling black accent stripes aligned, spaced, and flowing the way I wanted them… and taped up with fine line tape.

I then finished taping off both the center (with plastic) and the outboard stripes (with paper) to allow painting the black accent stripes.

Which I did next.  Here’s both the left (pic 1) and right (pic 2) bottom cowling black accent stripes painted.

If the weather holds tomorrow I plan on shooting the main center section of the bottom cowling blue.

Pressing forward!