Painting: Paint Booth Prep

Not a whole lot of plane production this past month, due to camping, out-of-town trips and company over. I did manage to get the paint booth built, however. Will be running a high volume low air pressure (HVLP) spray outfit. Never done anything like this before, so a little nervous. Supplied breathing air will come through from garage door side and paint exhaust will be through window-mounted fan. As soon as I get a free evening, I'll get started. Think I'll start with the ailerons. Also took some time getting tooled up and configured for painting. Needed a larger 33 gal volume tank compressor and spray gun (DeVilbiss). I calibrated the gun settings by spraying with water (similar viscosity to paint) on cardboard.

As a side project this summer, I built the boys a treehouse. Originally considered Walmart playset, but with cost of lumber down was able to build this for nearly same cost.