Winter job, Re-Surfacing Upgrades

 January 2021

Down time in the winter.  Weather has been dismal and a lot of snow is on the ground and the local taxiways.  Time to do a few upgrades on the Q2.  I have never finished the fiberglass support structure for the canopy, it has been left as bare fiberglass since building it.  Now it is time to sand fill and paint the canopy frame as well as four locations on the fuselage that have shallow blisters that show in the sunlight.  The canopy was sanded and then filled with micro and then finish fill three times with NAPA two part auto body putty.  These same materials were used on the fuselage blister locations after they were cut out and sanded.  I found under the fiberglass blister the foam was not attached to the fiberglass and was the reason for the blister.  I cleaned the area to good foam then layered in a couple of layers of micro/epoxy to fill most of the space leaving room for new cloth.  Glassed over, sanded and then applied a few skim coats of body putty for finishing then spray can primer/filler.

After the micro then body putty filling was smooth I rolled on "Featherfill" prmer/filler.  I used a 3 inch wide foam roller and it turned out very good.

The finish color on primer/filler is never consistent but I don't mind as this is and ongoing fill and finish project on the surface of the Q2.

Aft side of the canopy bulkhead was also roller'd with primer filler onto the bare fiberglass so that when opened it looked like the exterior.