NickG Posted July 24 Report Posted July 24 Anyone have their Ovation painted recently? Any Pireps, recommendations etc? Cost?
Skates97 Posted July 24 Report Posted July 24 You're a short hop from Art Craft in Santa Maria. https://intothesky.com/2023/01/17/art-craft-paint-review/ 1
Fritz1 Posted July 26 Report Posted July 26 No easy answer, after having 3 airplanes painted you have a general idea what to look for, get three references of recently painted airplanes from each shop that you consider, talk to the owners, a fair job without fancy graphics will be about $30k, an excellent job close to $40k and may take 3 months, large amount of disassembly and prep work, very hard and dirty work, find out what environmental control system for temp and humidity exists, learn what you can about painting before you make your choice 1
NickG Posted July 27 Author Report Posted July 27 4 hours ago, Fritz1 said: No easy answer, after having 3 airplanes painted you have a general idea what to look for, get three references of recently painted airplanes from each shop that you consider, talk to the owners, a fair job without fancy graphics will be about $30k, an excellent job close to $40k and may take 3 months, large amount of disassembly and prep work, very hard and dirty work, find out what environmental control system for temp and humidity exists, learn what you can about painting before you make your choice Thanks for the advice, @Fritz1- much appreciated.
PT20J Posted July 27 Report Posted July 27 I recently had mine painted at Sunquest at KPAE. Excellent shop that has been around for many, many years. They paint about 48 planes a year including FedEx Caravans, Kenmore Air’s Beavers, Otters and Caravans, Heritage Flight Museum planes, and the Nordstrom family’s fleet. Everyone there is a joy to work with and very customer service oriented. The colors affect cost. Yellow is most expensive paint and red is also expensive. Clear coat will add cost if you want that. Spraying is fast, but they spent about 3 days touching up little details afterwards. Base cost for a Mooney is $32K. But a complex design that takes a lot of time to tape adds $2500/day for layout and I paid a $2500 up charge for red paint. Elapsed time was 8 weeks.
Slick Nick Posted July 28 Report Posted July 28 54 minutes ago, PT20J said: I recently had mine painted at Sunquest at KPAE. Excellent shop that has been around for many, many years. They paint about 48 planes a year including FedEx Caravans, Kenmore Air’s Beavers, Otters and Caravans, Heritage Flight Museum planes, and the Nordstrom family’s fleet. Everyone there is a joy to work with and very customer service oriented. The colors affect cost. Yellow is most expensive paint and red is also expensive. Clear coat will add cost if you want that. Spraying is fast, but they spent about 3 days touching up little details afterwards. Base cost for a Mooney is $32K. But a complex design that takes a lot of time to tape adds $2500/day for layout and I paid a $2500 up charge for red paint. Elapsed time was 8 weeks. Have you got any photos of the end result? Feel free to PM me if you’d prefer.
PT20J Posted July 28 Report Posted July 28 21 minutes ago, Slick Nick said: Have you got any photos of the end result? Feel free to PM me if you’d prefer. 7
PT20J Posted July 28 Report Posted July 28 Here's the layout... N355DT SKIP FORSTER V.13 Combined.pdf
PT20J Posted July 28 Report Posted July 28 Wing walk. The factory adhesive backed material is available from Mooney via LASAR. @Gee Bee Aeroproducts also will make stick on wing walk material from the stuff used on skate boards. I ended up going with the standard Sunquest method. They mask the wing walk outline and roll on black polyurethane paint. Then they sprinkle glass bead blasting media over the area and let it dry for a few minutes and then gently blow off the excess media with an air hose. Then they apply a second coat of black paint. It looks great. There is an access cover near the leading edge of the wing walk. They taped over the screws and seam with 3M 471+ masking tape before painting and applying the glass media. After that, you can either remove the tape and paint the area around the panel black (without glass media) or do as I elected and leave the tape covered with black paint and glass media in place. If I ever need to access that panel, the tape will peel off and afterwards it can be touched up with black paint. 1
N201MKTurbo Posted July 28 Report Posted July 28 Just use Hurculiner roll on truck bed liner. It does a beautiful job. It is the same as Ultimate Wing Walk for a third the price. I have removed the access panel after it was covered with bed liner. It isn't that hard. Use a plastic scraper to find the screws then use a poker to clean the liner out of the pluses on the screws. Then you can remove the screws. When you are done, dab some bed liner on the divots left where the screws are and roller over it, then let it dry overnight and put another coat of bed liner over the whole wing walk. It’s like nothing ever happened and looks brand new. 2
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