Skim Coated Empennage Fairings and Prepped Canopy Frame and Roll Bar for Painting

I skim coated most of the empennage fairings with straight epoxy to fill the pinholes and scratches from the sandpaper.

I then started prepping the canopy frame for painting.  First up is to rivet the canopy bow to the side channel.  I then bolted the canopy latches in place so that all of the hardware will get painted.

I masked off the areas that shouldn’t get any paint, then scotchbrited everything that needed paint.

I riveted the roll bar support channel onto the roll bar, then scotchbrited the whole thing.  I used the scotchbrite disc in the die grinder to make all of the rivets completely flush to the surface to make sure they can’t scratch the canopy.

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