My Diana 4 is finally ready to be spray painted. I’ve been struggling to get the fuselage done over the past few months – somehow my fuselage had more airpockets in it than I’ve had with earlier self-built fuselages. In addition, the wing root needed significant adjusting (the fuselage is originally that of the JS3, which has deeper wing root). I’ve used many coats of primer, followed by wet sanding and yet another coat of primer to get it into a shape where I feel happy sending it off to be spray painted.

Before making the final preparations for spray painting I also drilled the holes for the winglets (which are Chocofly winglets for their Diana 2 1:3.5). This was a relatively easy job using the nifty tool prepared by Georg (see picture).

To give both fuselage and wings (upper side only) a better finish before the spray painting I’ve used a new primer (ColorMatic 1k Primer Filler – white). This appears to be even better than the one I used before (duplicolor Spritzspachtel/acrylic spray putty). The ColorMatic is a bit harder than the Duplicolor and yet easy to sand. Importantly, it’s also available in white. I do hope it doesn’t react with the PU paint. Very curious to see how it comes back from the paint shop. Fingers crossed.