Yet another paint job report

[terbang]

After the refurbishment of the interior of our 252 it was time for a paint job. Of course it's hard to post about a freshly painted Mooney after the Anomaly but anyway, here she is, still in the paint shop's hangar:

 

Actually it’s almost the original scheme, except for the wings. We felt that a Mooney from the early nineties should look like a Mooney from the early nineties. That of course is just personal taste.

The colors are a bit more modern (so we think): The white ("Snow White") is lighter and the brown ("Macadamia Metallic") is much darker than it used to be. 

However, the wings were solid brown when she left the factory and we thought this would be too much with the new dark brown. Therefore we tried to mimic the original scheme of the fuselage on the wings with a white center part.

We had all control surfaces, inspections hole covers and gear doors removed. The cowl and many of the fibre glass fairings were removed an refurbished as they were in rather poor shape. 

Here are a few more details:

Refurbished cowl

 

New scheme on the wings

 

Macadamia Metallic looks quite different in direct light

 

The wing walk is brown, not black as usual.

 

Scheme on the fuselage is exactly as it was

 

Empennage hasn't changed

 

Gear doors

 

 

Edited April 16, 2023 by terbang

[affricate]

Damn, son that looks nice 

[alextstone]

My wife showed me these photos from FB before you posted here... We were both were blown away!  Beautiful job and great choice!  

[Pinecone]

I agree that the paint job should pay tribute to the original.  Not that I don't like some of the more original paint jobs, but for MY plane, more classic.

Nice paint job.

[GaryP1007]

Wow what a gorgeous plane! Congrats on the new paint job. Awesome.


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[hubcap]

Beautiful!!

[Ragsf15e]

Where did you have the beautiful paint job done?

[terbang]

5 hours ago, Ragsf15e said:

Where did you have the beautiful paint job done?

We’re based in Germany and had it done by a shop in Gera, Germany: Olaf Roth Aircraft Painting We are quite happy with the result and the way we worked with Olaf and his team. This will probably be of little interest to most here but maybe another European owner comes across this.

[Ragsf15e]

25 minutes ago, terbang said:

We’re based in Germany and had it done by a shop in Gera, Germany: Olaf Roth Aircraft Painting We are quite happy with the result and the way we worked with Olaf and his team. This will probably be of little interest to most here but maybe another European owner comes across this.

Well it looks awesome.  Great job picking the shop and the scheme!

[glbtrottr]

Looks like an awesome paint job


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[T. Peterson]

On 4/16/2023 at 6:34 AM, terbang said:

After the refurbishment of the interior of our 252 it was time for a paint job. Of course it's hard to post about a freshly painted Mooney after the Anomaly but anyway, here she is, still in the paint shop's hangar:

 

Actually it’s almost the original scheme, except for the wings. We felt that a Mooney from the early nineties should look like a Mooney from the early nineties. That of course is just personal taste.

The colors are a bit more modern (so we think): The white ("Snow White") is lighter and the brown ("Macadamia Metallic") is much darker than it used to be. 

However, the wings were solid brown when she left the factory and we thought this would be too much with the new dark brown. Therefore we tried to mimic the original scheme of the fuselage on the wings with a white center part.

We had all control surfaces, inspections hole covers and gear doors removed. The cowl and many of the fibre glass fairings were removed an refurbished as they were in rather poor shape. 

Here are a few more details:

Refurbished cowl

 

New scheme on the wings

 

Macadamia Metallic looks quite different in direct light

 

The wing walk is brown, not black as usual.

 

Scheme on the fuselage is exactly as it was

 

Empennage hasn't changed

 

Gear doors

 

 

Incredible work! Triple WOW!!