The new shop heater is working well and the minimum ambiant outside temp. is 30° in order to be able to paint, any lower and it would take too long to be able to shoot paint.
I wiped the first Mig-29 down with part of a clean old t-shirt soaked with rubbing alcohol because the wife unit read on an I.P.M.S. website there is an issue with the heavy duty Dawn detergent having an addative that leaves a residue behind creating a non-adherence barrier for paint (Makes glasses all shiney).
The canopy and gun port masking needed a little touch-up as well.
I just had my hair cut really short to preclude premature bald spots via mechanical process in case this paint procedure doesn’t work out.
Tommorrow… I shoot paint.
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It has begun.....
Sprayed the exhaust metal color and the mouse grey on the underside of one of the stabililaters…
Tomorrow I’ll mask off the areas I just painted and start with the pale blue camo base color.
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Masked and shot the second color.
One more color and trim pieces to go.
I bought some Tamiya tape to try it out and it’s working out well…I’ll be gritting my teeth removing it though.
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Masked the Mig-29 ALL day…and shot the dark blue at 20-23 psi. In 20 mins.
I used regular masking tape I cut to 1/16" on a pane of glass to do the hard edge, cut to fit Tamiya tape to
fill in, and Vallejo latex mask to cover just about the entire upper surfaces.
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Pulled tape and there are minor easily fixed spots of overspray … but, overall I like the way it looks.
There are more colors yet, like anti-glare panel, dielectric panels, and accent panels.
And DECALS, lots and lots of the itty bitty, tiny, leetle steenken decals (use appropriate “Rosanna Anna Danna” voiceover)
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Looks great! Those blues are awesome.
Man the MIG-29 is just a wicked beast of a bird. I love it.
Did all the required touch-ups and tomorrow I’ll paint the dielectric panels and anti-glare panel.
I had to wait for a day that was the minimum temperature of 30° to heat the shop to 60° without taking all day.
Next is all the decals…
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I used the Tamiya tape to mask with for the touch-up cycle, I like that it isn’t so sticky that it pulls off paint…but it is NOT a persistent adhesive and does not stay adhered very long past the original application.
I still highly recommend it in cases where you have any doubts about pulling up paint while masking.
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Masking and airbrushing the dielectric panels, anti-glare panel.
I have a few more to go but, after today I’ll be on another weather hold.
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Paint is all on, the next thing will be the gloss, decals, painting the landing gear & wheel assemblies and getting it on the landing gear.
The temps are dropping and I came in just under the wire.
I’ll just have to wait for it to get warm again.
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Those colors are great! Nice job masking too — good and sharp.
Bravo! That looks pretty badass bud!
It looks really good.
Decals are on and I brush painted the red antennae under the nose and the wing tip lights silver, once that dries I’ll paint the clear green and red over them.
I found the antenna on the spine I snapped of early on (yay me!).
You can see one of the panavises I use a lot when applying decals, I can keep the decal surface purpledincular to local vertical and the microsol doesn’t run off the decal.
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Just about have this one wrapped up, or are you going to do a bunch of weathering too?
I need one of those vises so I can get my decal surfaces…
What an excellent turn of phrase! Even better than “perpendicular”! 
Lol…I worked with a lot of characters and picked up some eccentric and colorful metaphoric descriptors.
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I might do a small amount of weathering but nothing like an aircraft stored outdoors for years though.
