07-19-2020, 06:35 PM
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The_Ripper
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 1,941
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Originally Posted by erik442
Today I started applying paint to the individual parts. I found a can of metallic black for the final coats. In the sunlight it appears to have four different colors of metallic in the base. I have a set of decals and will use 3/8" or 1/2" elastic with Kevlar backup for the recovery. Will post pics of the finished product in a week or two. The humidity here may affect my paint cure times.
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Quite the little weed garden growing in that core sample ... brutal 
Looks like your rebuild is coming along very nicely. I'll need to look back through your posts about the nose cone locking system, sounds like a good idea.
I wouldn't be able to let an Aero-Dart just die like that either I'd have to save it! 
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