Week 8 - Stripe Masking
I got some more pictures today. The airplane is completely painted white and they are laying out the masking for the paint scheme. The masking is computer generated to get the curves perfect. I picked a Cessna 2006 172SP paint scheme to use on our Hawk. Here is an example from the Cessna website.
http://mansfieldlanding.com/forum/photos/1972_cessna_172l_restoration_n19662/picture322.aspx
Our Airplane should come out like this with a slight modification to the registration numbers. On ours we changed the slant and added shadowing in grey -- should look pretty good. Here are the pictures of the masking. Note that the N-number has been changed to N157DF.
http://mansfieldlanding.com/forum/photos/1972_cessna_172l_restoration_n19662/picture318.aspx
http://mansfieldlanding.com/forum/photos/1972_cessna_172l_restoration_n19662/picture319.aspx
http://mansfieldlanding.com/forum/photos/1972_cessna_172l_restoration_n19662/picture320.aspx
http://mansfieldlanding.com/forum/photos/1972_cessna_172l_restoration_n19662/picture321.aspx
The still need to complete the stripes, paint the interior and put the airplane back together. With Sun-n-Fun on the 17th they are targeting to have the airplane completed the last week of April -- we cannot wait........
*** Saturday Update:
The gray and the red are down. Once they paint the last color (Burnt Orange) they will clear coat all the colors. Then the airplane interior and door jams get painted, the parts go back on and we are done...... Here are a few shots of the red color applied:
http://mansfieldlanding.com/forum/photos/1972_cessna_172l_restoration_n19662/picture324.aspx
http://mansfieldlanding.com/forum/photos/1972_cessna_172l_restoration_n19662/picture325.aspx
http://mansfieldlanding.com/forum/photos/1972_cessna_172l_restoration_n19662/picture326.aspx
More pictures this afternoon (Saturday) with all the colors down. A little hard to tell with the mask but still pretty cool:
http://mansfieldlanding.com/forum/photos/1972_cessna_172l_restoration_n19662/picture327.aspx
http://mansfieldlanding.com/forum/photos/1972_cessna_172l_restoration_n19662/picture328.aspx
http://mansfieldlanding.com/forum/photos/1972_cessna_172l_restoration_n19662/picture329.aspx