Yesterday it was windy, not a good day to do painting, so I decided to refurbish my old Orbital Transport. I built this over 20 years ago, and after a few years, the clear coat started to yellow. Not too bad at first, and I kept flying it. Had that old classic “built in my youth” look. The next few years it began to get this spreading brownish haze. You can see some of it on the transport. The white areas are where I wiped it down with lacquer thinner last year, just to see how easily I could clean up most of the open areas. At that point, I set it aside; there was no way I’d take it out to fly looking like that.
Yesterday, I wet-sanded the orbiter. It cleaned up pretty easily. Certainly ready to smooth out some repairs, fill some dings, then primer and paint. Today I’ll start wet-sanding the transport. I’m not sure that this will get finished in one day, mostly because cleaning up around all the detailed components will require more effort and patience than I may have for today.

I still have a set of green decals, but may just do this in the standard red, to match my Super OT.

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Lee Reep
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Projects: Semroc Saturn 1B, Ken Foss Designs Mini Satellite Interceptor
In the Paint Shop: Nothing! Too cold!
Launch-Ready: Farside-X, Maxi Honest John, Super Scamp