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LOHAN and the amazing technicolor spaceplane
Our Vulture 2 livery is wrapped, and it's les noix du mutt
You need a montage, even Rocky had a montage
Rewinding five months, our Vulture 2 paint job kicked off with a few supplies...
...the application of some primer...
...and the first tentative tin-rattling as I painted the aircraft's pointy beak:
Having started to get the hang of this paint job malarkey, it was time to attack the big challenge: the spaceplane's rear fuselage and wings. With the bird fully primed and sanded...
...I first laid into the rudders, with a few coats of yellow:
Next up was a coat of white...
...which I then masked off as required. The red lines are to indicate the edge of the masking, not the actual tape itself:
I then slapped on a coat of red...
...and removed the masking to reveal the finished rudders (a tip of the hat to our Spanish team members)...
...and the red and white elements of the paint job:
After masking up for the final blue coat...
...and lovingly applying that...
...I went through the same process with the canards...
and voilà:
That's my mate Antonio, who's always keen to lend a hand, and apprentice boffin Katarina, posing with the Vulture 2 shortly before it was loaded into an enormous box for shipping to Blighty, where it had a date with Space Graphic Solutions.