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An old thread, but I would like to troll again for filler opinions. I am polishing but the fiberglass parts will need some fill. NAPA or West Systems? Or something else?

A couple more questions for the rattle-canners:
1) krylon seems to be the popular choice. Why not some other brand?
2) how many cans?
3) prep - did you prime at all, or just bondo-scratch-squirt?

For the acro ailerons I timed 2.83 seconds and for the regular ailerons 4.2 seconds. That is 127 vs 85 degrees per second. Those measurements are somewhat rough.

That looks pretty good. I also saw this one in the Sonex completions:

Hey all,
I have seen a couple references to rattle can Krylon paint jobs, especially on minimally painted airplanes. Anybody have any thoughts on this? I will only be painting the fiberglass parts and it seems viable, though the cowl is sort of a big part.

I have made up a cheesy line drawing in word and converted it to .jpg. Can be used with microsoft paint to consider color schemes on your taildragger waiex. Here it is.

Soon it will change from slowing down for instruction, to speeding up from the extra manpower. I am over the hump, though my son is far from autonomous at building (at the moment anyway). We are building faster together than I could build solo. It is very satisfying as a father. It was also good whe...

One last stabilizer picture!

The stabilizers are wrapped in old t shirts and stored under the workbench. We have started on the ruddervators. I saw this idea for drilling the hinges somewhere.
Workbench storage photo deleted for quota

Looks like about 120 degrees per second, or a little better. Pretty good! What do the stock ailerons do?

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