Tue Jan 27, 2015 1:50 pm
Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:49 pm
Obergrafeter wrote:If your plane is colored with paint as opposed to Dope you will probably get more cracking and crows feet than the doped one. I just would never put paint on a fabric airplane, but that is just me. I have been told that the new "modern" paints flex enough not to be a problem, but if you want original go back to dope. The color variations in the silver plane shown, show the difference in using dope on fabric, and paint on the metal parts. I like these variations as that is how the original planes were. I am sure with modern coating these variations can be omitted.
Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:20 pm
Tue Jan 27, 2015 9:55 pm
Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:57 pm
John Dupre wrote:Someone restoring a Stearman told me a few years ago that when Stearmans left the factory in silver they had both a AAF serial number and Navy Bureau Number painted on the tail. When they arrived at a whichever service was using them they would paint out the "opposing" serial number. Any truth to that?