by captinjoeydafish » Mon Oct 19, 2015 5:03 pm
Nope. Not a vinyl wrap. Yes, basecoat/clear coat. Hours and hours of taping for 20 mins of paint.
The tiger itself was hand painted with acrylics and also airbrushed
Also the first ever all aluminum skinned wings. We used .016 for the covering and we're still considered LSA.
We did lots of different mods such as the extra strip across the doors, flap root fairings, and hand built custom exhaust.
All in all a great little airplane, however, if I had it to do again I'd step the exhaust up from 1 1/4" to 1.5" then up to 2" for a more throaty sound. Right now she sounds like a snowmobile!