Dayglo paint on aircraft

My pleasure 🙂

Thanks Tony, downloading now as I type this!

Cheers
Anthony

Yes it is, had over 500 downloads when I put it up initially, so it is online now sort of permanently. Ahhh just read your original post, missed it before.

My fabric has been removed off my wings, but this is interesting. Looks like it is peeling off the silver like tape might?

That is dayglo film, on large areas it is laid in parallel strips (8″ wide strips with 2″ gaps for example), it can go hardish and flake away as appears in your pic.
When dayglo is painted on the whole area is done in solid colour.

Anthony, I have one of the earlier paint manuals online, you can download it from here.

Hi Tony, is that the same version that you sent me on CD?
If so it would be easier for Anthony to download from your link than for me to try and email the doc.

Anthony, I have one of the earlier paint manuals online, you can download it from here.

http://www.yousendit.com/download/T2djZUN0UnFwaFRFdzhUQw

Thanks again, for this info.

Here is a pic taken of Hanks AOP-6 Auster during rebuild. He used the wings of another HK T7 (WE537 I think). My fabric has been removed off my wings, but this is interesting. Looks like it is peeling off the silver like tape might?

Cheers
Anthony

It must come in metre wide rolls as well because the Air Cadet glider fleet has had dayglo panels applied to the uper surfaces of the wings for several years.
Incidentaly, at cetain distances and aspects, the dayglo panels are quite effective at breaking up the aircraft’s outline, or in other words it acts as camouflage. :confused:

I have been using dayglow stick-on foil for 4 years now on gliders. My experience is that with aircraft that are outside about 250 days a year, the foil fades after about 3 years. Easy to replace. One word of caution: use a little heat (hairdryer will do) when removing the old foil or you’ll rip the paint off, especially when applied to things like Ceconite. I use 1 metre wide rolls of the stuff. Expensive, but worth it. Don’t bother with paint unless you’ll want that old worn down look within a year.

Looks like I should use Dayglo tape then. Any idea what the width of the tape is?

In A.P.119A-0601-D, that I drew on in my earlier post, it quotes the use of 8″ wide Scotchcal film on use on Chipmunks & Hunters, this may be the same across other aircraft types but can’t see the relevant part.
Chapter 5, para 9, gives very precise and detailed instructions and drawings on how the film should be applied, its application and removal looks as involved as painting it on to me!:eek:

If you PM your email I can try and email this A.P. to you, won’t be today though.

There is ‘some’ useful information on this topic in this thread http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=108391 🙂

NOOOOOO! Don’t even think about reviving that thread!!!!!!!!!!!:diablo::D

On 10m rolls – certainly available in the UK; I guess local supply may be different in other countries.

Sadly not really amongst the aviation maintenance tapes that I am sometimes involved with!

The most common widths available are:

25mm
50mm
75mm
100mm

Is that ‘tape’ on a roll? Post #7 refers to wider vinyl roll sizes 605mm plus so I guess you can get it any size you want within reason. Wider rolls will be hard to handle without experience I would say, particularly if applying to compound curves.

The most common widths available are:

25mm
50mm
75mm
100mm

Other sizes can usually be cut to order.

Project wise the museum where I volunteer is in a similar position!

Good luck with yours!!

Hi guys

Well thank you all very much for the feedback. Looks like I should use Dayglo tape then. Any idea what the width of the tape is? I guess that it will be easier to replace when it fades.

Paul, I enjoyed looking at all the great work you guys have done on the Jet Provost….well done!

VX927, I have a couple more pics of my plane in HK, mostly in the silver/yellow….some great colour ones from the RHKAAF Historical Society. Also a nice one of her flying in the late sixties/very early seventies when she got repainted in their white scheme with red/blue trim.

As you can see from the photo below I have a way to go. She has been stripped to a bare frame, x-rayed/NDT’d any repairs carried out, internal corrosion preventative treatment and the borascope sent up to check other areas. The frame has been primered and the original “Auster green” matched from NOS parts. The fin as well as tailfeathers have been done ready for fabric as well as the u/c, doors and engine mounts. The Gipsy Major 7 is in strip down and I am soon to start refitting the fuse. I have all the original military gear she carried in her long carreer including signal pistols, downward ID lights, crowbars etc… As you can imagine it has been an expensive exercise so far, but very few T7’s survive that had such a long military history and not converted to Terriers. I feel compelled to do it right first time.

So when will it fly……?????

Thanks again for everyones responses, much appreciated!

Cheers
Anthony

Dayglo paint

Whilst on the subject of the foybles of applying Dayglo, a good case in point is the Canso/Catalina at Coford, at some point in the late eighties it aquired a repaint,but the dayglo on the nose in particular has a dreadful finish, and given the high quality of the rest of the collection i am amazed it hasnt received some work to rectify this.it is patchy and full of runs, anyone else noticed this?

Hi Lee

Yes we did, and thanks very much. We did send off our modest donation to the FAAM i think it was?
Take a look at the photo at the foot of the Gallery section on our website, which i will apologise in advance for, as it’s still under development.

http://jetprovostxs186restoration.com

Regards

Paul

Should stress that the services’ paint guide says that, there always seems to be exceptions!

Scotchcal is the stuff, although contrary to Pagen’s mail I think the RN Tiger Moths did actually use it instead of paint.

Relightflynn9 – did you ever use the numbers I drew for your aircraft? I never did see the results.

Lee

Thats a very interesting photo Anthony… Do you have any more photos of HK Austers in those markings? Any idea how long before your Auster will emerge in such colours??

I bought a good quality dayglo paint (German) a few years ago, applied it to our JP by the book, and laquered it with two pack clearcoat, looked beautiful.

It lasted little over 9 months before it looked awful. UV damage.

To keep it looking nice you would have to strip the old dayglo paint (and the surrounding paintwork aswell) each time before you apply fresh coats of paint, to prevent paint build up.
A real pain compared to the removal of vinyl dayglo strips, which we are about to apply to XS186 this summer to cut down on the work above.

We have also invested in covers that we will only remove when we have to (every weekend for a few hours). You may be better off than we are, and can hangar your aircraft, away from those UV rays!

We anticipate dayglo change every two years based on our level of protection. Depending where you are in NZ you probably get more sun than we do?

Paul
XS186 CREW