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ONEX #54 Web Site
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Date: 5-8-2014
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Number of Hours: 1.00
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Manual Reference: B04
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Brief Description: Test paints on nose pant
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I've been thinking of the paint scheme for the Onex, and would like to have a white fuselage with orange trim, similar to military training aircraft. It will probably be a while before painting the white, so I've ordered some Nuvite products to help protect the bare aluminum.
From Mil-Std-2161A(AS), the orange used on the training aircraft is FS12197. The only sample I've found is a 1/2 oz bottle of Model Master enamel at about $4.50 a bottle. Obviously not viable for a plane paint job so I bought several commonly available orange spray paints to see how well any might match. Painted a strip of each on some wingtip fiberglass scrap. A pretty close match appears to be the Rust-Oleum 250704 "Gloss Lobster Red".
I am testing some white paint on the nosewheel pant since the fiberglass needs some protection from inevitable fuel drips. On the nose strut fairing, I washed the aluminum with Stewart EkoEtch, then primed with NAPA 7220 self etch primer, then a coat of Rust-Oleum flat white primer to improve the white color base, then a topcoat of Dupont "nason" 402-11 gloss white urethane.
I brushed some fiberglass resin on the exposed edges of the wheel pant to seal the glass fibers from "delaminating and wicking". When dry and smoothed, applied Rust-Oleum 249058 flat white primer as a color base coat over the gray NAPA 7220 primer already on the part, then a Krylon 51501 gloss white top coat.
It appears the Dupont 402-11 is a shade "whiter" white than the Krylon 51501.
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White primers and top coats
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Orange color choices. "Lobster Red" on the left
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Orange test stip. "Lobster Red" on the left
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