Could you create a channel that just shows people peeling tape away to show crisp, new paint? Thank you. And that plane is looking great. Amazing how far you have gone with it since your first video.
I do not think the stripe is too wide... I follows the outline of the plane - Good job! Wow - You have kicked ass! So much hard work, from tip to tail, inside and out, mechanics to controls to aesthetics. She looks fantastic. Can't wait for the 1st flight.
I wasnt sold on the racing stripe at first but as soon as I saw Paul's fine line I knew it would be beautiful. Charlie Foxtrot is gonna look amazing up there
I have to admit, this plane looks pretty amazing. The white pin stripe will be a great addition. Will you be painting the landing struts white as well?
Glen, she is a gleaming *jewel!* You have gone above and beyond reasonable preservation - I hope you enjoy flying in her for decades to come! I hope, also to actually see her in person some day. Thank you for sharing this voyage!
Can I make one suggestion? I realize the paint job is done, and Paul did a really nice job on it. IF it had been me, what I think I would have done would have been just at the front of the door, I would have used a curve to go from the full height of the stripe to a pin point at the front of the cowling. This is kind of hard to explain, but pretty easy to demonstrate. If you have a current version of Microsoft Windows, there's a program there called Paint 3D. You can open that, and use the 2D tools to create a line (use 1 point for the size) that would have been straight from the tail cone to the front of the engine cowl. Then for the second line, I would have moved the starting point of the second, lower line, a bit forward of the starting point of the first, so you could have about a 30º line from the back of the top line to the back of the bottom line. Now, the second line runs in a straight line, but slopes downward, just like you have it. I would have run that line to just about where the front of the door is. Here comes the tricky part. In this Paint 3D, under the '2D Shapes' there are several lines, and one of them is a '3 point line.' Connect the rear of the three point line to the end of the bottom line, at the front of the door, and then connect the other end of this line to the front of the top line. Now, by moving that third dot around, you can alter the shape of the line. I would have put that dot about 25% of the way towards the front of the airplane, and then about 60% of the way up to the top line. Creates a nice curve to a point on the front of the airplane!
Love this series though I know nothing about flying, and PC Flight Simulator taught me I better leave flying to other people. The plane looks fantastic, well worth all the hard work.
Polishing under the wings.... Get a scaffold so you can lay on your back to polish. Under the wings is a killer. Also, flour helps with the nastiness. Dust it on the black residue, then wipe off.
Hey Glen, I love watching you do this stuff. I'm legally blind, so I'll never own an airplane nor get to fly one, so I live vicariously through you on this one.
Looking wicked. I like the idea of an additional pin stripe. I’m a retired private pilot. Learned at Buttonville in the early 80s on a very similar 172. Super jealous. Have fun! 🇨🇦
Look’n good Glen. Right now you must be like a kid in a candy shop. I’m no aviator, but enjoy learning new things. Thanks for sharing. For what it’s worth. Maybe a narrow double pin stripe of different widths on the red might just make it pop. Good luck getting her ready & into the air. Spring is coming.
Plane looks great with the red stripe! Polished Aluminum is perfect approach for this. Pls put "& friends" in tiny print somewhere, maybe inside the pant.
I think that with the stripe at least, the yellow tape on the outside looked pretty good. Will have to wait and see what the white middle looks like. Also, I was a bit worried that the pain was going to splatter your camera.
Absolutely beautiful. The progress is amazing...you must be pleased. You're taking your time and doing it right. Passing by a small airport this morning and I never really thought about it...from a view and safety aspect, the wings over the fuselage to me seems more appealing. Very cool Glen...looking good 👍!
Hi Glenn,I was watching your episode talking about painting the stripe... you could add colored paper to get a better idea what it actually will look like.
Or… you could just apply wrap like Jimmy did on his Cherokee 6 on TH-cams (Jiimeys World). We used wrap for the logo’s on our MD-80s at Alaska Airlines. A C172 is a whole lot slower than a jet and it lasted a whole lot longer than paint.
Glen, Great video. Love the series and your cooking channel. My question is, do you make the stripe level with the plane in the ground or level when in flight? Maybe it is the camera angle but it appears to me that the plane as it is sitting is slightly tail down.
The aircraft looks fantastic, great paint job. You mentioned that wheel pants were an option. Are you going to install the missing wheel pants or leave them off. I think the aircraft would look better with them on.
If you can't get scratches out it's because you didn't start with a coarse enough abrasive. The initial abrasive has to leave heavy scratches near in magnitude to what you want to remove. Go all one way until the whole surface is covered with an even field of the scratches you put on all running one way. The original scratches have to disappear on this first sanding. If they didn't switch to a coarser grit and start over. Then switch to the next finer grit and sand the other way. Sand until all the old lines are gone and the whole surface is covered with an even field of scratches the new direction. Continue that way to a fine grit and then switch to polish. If you don't start with a coarse enough grit you'll never get the scratches out and you'll just end up with polished scratches. Nobody wants that (unless it's an artistic effect you're going for).
I should have been more clear with my wording and the use of 'scratches' - perhaps Gouges would have better? In any event with even the most aggressive aviation approved polish, and someone who polishes his own WW-2 aircraft at my side helping and guiding me - there was no hope of clearing / removing the marks.
I didn't - There are a few YT pilots that I want to collab with; but until C-FMVU has cleared all of the test flights I haven't been too aggressive in trying to get in touch with them. Who would everyone like to see me fly with? Some of my ideas are: Trent Palmer Flight Chops Aviation 101 SoCal Flying Monkey Angle Of Attack Blancolirio Taking Off
@@GlensHangar I believe the list you have is a great start. Maybe add a meet-up at an Oshkosh or Sun and Fun. Jimmy's World would be an interesting meet-up, he is a jokester. Also Mike Patey would be good.
@@humbledsparrows4687 Sun and Fun is a possibility this year, as is some of the fly ins at Triple Tree. But Oshkosh won't work out this summer (we're taking viewers from our cooking channel to Mexico City that week).
Looks incredible but a question, why paint? Why not vinyl wrap? I see more and more going with the vinyl and seeing someone using paint it makes me ask. Looks really good though.
Tough question - I did look at Vinyl and costed it out for the design I wanted. It came in a little higher than paint (though Paul is a friend and didn't charge full freight, so there was a major advantage). The second consideration was how long it would last; I've seen a lot of planes with vinyl striping where the vinyl has dried out / cracked / peeled after a few years of UV / weather exposure and it looks horrible. The paint will outlast vinyl by a long shot - or should outlast vinyl by a long shot. Check back in a couple of years and we'll see?
Just a car mechanic here but love the aviation stuff more... Why have the tires at such a low pressure? Most cars stored benefit from full pressure cold if stored or not moved for more than 30 days, as well as it making it much easier to move around. Prevents flat spots as well from sitting in one place for to long. Just curious. Great series
The tires get a lot of questions - over the 6 months or so that we've been working on the plane and not flying it, we've inflated and deflated the tires more times than I care to remember. It seems that every piece of gear or operation requires that the plane be 'levelled' differently and depending on where it's sitting in the hangar we'll add or remove air to accomplish this. What you see in the video is just whatever the tires were set to after the last task.
@@GlensHangar I never thought about the leveling part as well as it might be better to have them low when you don't want it rolling away on you while working on it. :)
I can tell by three comments in 5 minutes that the idea of paint really bothers you on so many levels... The cost of painting this was waaaaaaaaay cheaper than vinyl wrap.
Looking very nice! Questions...Did you use something to clean/prep the aluminum before primer - if so what product? What Primer did you use? I see you used a Nason paint which type Nason paint? Was it Nason Fullthane?
I did the standard chem aluminum prep with alodine etc - opinions vary on wether that's necessary, but I did it anyway. I'll ask Paul what exact primer he used; I do know it was an epoxy. As for the paint; pretty sure it was a urethane? But again, I let Paul do his thing and didn't intrude much on his process.
Yes - if you stop to look at small aircraft on the ramp, you'll see that the paint peels first from the leading edges and then the next spot is around the rivets. The stress and flexing at the rivets causes the paint to fail. But it's unavoidable.
that spring green was a great shade
That peel was super satisfying. ♥️
The paint looks amazing.
Could you create a channel that just shows people peeling tape away to show crisp, new paint? Thank you. And that plane is looking great. Amazing how far you have gone with it since your first video.
I do not think the stripe is too wide... I follows the outline of the plane - Good job!
Wow - You have kicked ass!
So much hard work, from tip to tail, inside and out, mechanics to controls to aesthetics. She looks fantastic.
Can't wait for the 1st flight.
I wasnt sold on the racing stripe at first but as soon as I saw Paul's fine line I knew it would be beautiful. Charlie Foxtrot is gonna look amazing up there
I love the Fridays when we get a Glen and Friends cooking video as well as a Glen’s Hangar video 🛫
The control surfaces look great. Very nice choice to paint them.
She's gorgeous!
This man is a master at his job, it's fascinating to watch him work
I have to admit, this plane looks pretty amazing. The white pin stripe will be a great addition. Will you be painting the landing struts white as well?
I find it entertaining that I'm intently watching a video that sort of about paint drying ;)
Glen, she is a gleaming *jewel!* You have gone above and beyond reasonable preservation - I hope you enjoy flying in her for decades to come! I hope, also to actually see her in person some day. Thank you for sharing this voyage!
Wasn't sure about that red... holy cow it pops on that aluminium background! Loving the journey!
Damn that’s well on its way to becoming the sexiest 172 in the sky, Glen!! Very beautiful
Can I make one suggestion? I realize the paint job is done, and Paul did a really nice job on it. IF it had been me, what I think I would have done would have been just at the front of the door, I would have used a curve to go from the full height of the stripe to a pin point at the front of the cowling. This is kind of hard to explain, but pretty easy to demonstrate. If you have a current version of Microsoft Windows, there's a program there called Paint 3D. You can open that, and use the 2D tools to create a line (use 1 point for the size) that would have been straight from the tail cone to the front of the engine cowl. Then for the second line, I would have moved the starting point of the second, lower line, a bit forward of the starting point of the first, so you could have about a 30º line from the back of the top line to the back of the bottom line.
Now, the second line runs in a straight line, but slopes downward, just like you have it. I would have run that line to just about where the front of the door is. Here comes the tricky part. In this Paint 3D, under the '2D Shapes' there are several lines, and one of them is a '3 point line.' Connect the rear of the three point line to the end of the bottom line, at the front of the door, and then connect the other end of this line to the front of the top line.
Now, by moving that third dot around, you can alter the shape of the line. I would have put that dot about 25% of the way towards the front of the airplane, and then about 60% of the way up to the top line. Creates a nice curve to a point on the front of the airplane!
Show us please what you mean
Love this series though I know nothing about flying, and PC Flight Simulator taught me I better leave flying to other people. The plane looks fantastic, well worth all the hard work.
Very clean design. Love it.
the paint looks incredible! I wasn't sure I would like it in the beginning, but it turned out really nice.
Same here 😁👌
I got my hat. Glad I didn't miss it.
Phwoar that paint job is stunning!!
Oh my, that color is amazing.
Wow, Wow, WOW! Does that ever look sharp! Awesome job.
Polishing under the wings.... Get a scaffold so you can lay on your back to polish. Under the wings is a killer. Also, flour helps with the nastiness. Dust it on the black residue, then wipe off.
That is one nice looking bird
She looks damn good man. Damn good
Put the red Maple Leaf logo in the tail fin or behind the rear windows.
Wow....she's really looking good now.....I'm sure it makes u feel good when u see ur plan come together.......great job!!
lol, at a quick glance, the thumbnail made it look like you had wrapped the plane as a Gift trying to Hide what the "Gift" was. ;-) ;-)
Hopefully your only flying on cloudy days. That engine cowling with blind you with glare! She looks purdy still!
Looking great!
Hey Glen, I love watching you do this stuff. I'm legally blind, so I'll never own an airplane nor get to fly one, so I live vicariously through you on this one.
P.S. I still think you should do flames for the paintjob!
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Naw… flames would be tempting fate. Besides, everyone knows tapered stripes make the plane fly faster!
Glen, It looks great! I do not think the stripe is too wide, and the taper was the right choice.
Can't wait to see the first flight. The plane is looking Great, perfect color of red, really offsets that polished aluminum.
Looking wicked. I like the idea of an additional pin stripe. I’m a retired private pilot. Learned at Buttonville in the early 80s on a very similar 172. Super jealous. Have fun! 🇨🇦
I used a laser level for the straight lines from front to back. Worked great.
Looks amazing!
Looks great!
Looking good, that red pops nicely. I'll say that as a fan of green and retro looks, I found the original design from the brochure stunning.
It looks great
The white pin stripe will really make this pop. Love it!
I'd be as proud as punch if that was my aircraft. Great Job!
Look’n good Glen. Right now you must be like a kid in a candy shop. I’m no aviator, but enjoy learning new things. Thanks for sharing. For what it’s worth. Maybe a narrow double pin stripe of different widths on the red might just make it pop. Good luck getting her ready & into the air. Spring is coming.
It's looking some sharp Glen! It's going to be quite the bird when it's done!
Don't worry about the stripe being wider than you wanted. The white pinstripe balance it out nicely. It looks beautiful.
Plane looks great with the red stripe!
Polished Aluminum is perfect approach for this.
Pls put "& friends" in tiny print somewhere, maybe inside the pant.
Oh, my gosh, does that ever look good!
Ps I note at the end that the tires got air.
Wow, that plane is looking fly! (Haha, puns are great.) But seriously, good job with the paint. It's looking good!
I think that with the stripe at least, the yellow tape on the outside looked pretty good. Will have to wait and see what the white middle looks like.
Also, I was a bit worried that the pain was going to splatter your camera.
Looking great, awesome job! A white line down the middle of the red will look perfect
Looks terrific, Glen!
Planes looking great. I see more polishing than dying in your future. 😂
A lot more polishing... but that can wait until Spring.
Absolutely beautiful. The progress is amazing...you must be pleased. You're taking your time and doing it right. Passing by a small airport this morning and I never really thought about it...from a view and safety aspect, the wings over the fuselage to me seems more appealing. Very cool Glen...looking good 👍!
Planes lookin’ good Glen! Cant wait to see that interior completed!
The paint job is gorgeous!
Looks really nice. Glen. Congrats!
That is looking fantastic!
WOW, kinda surprised you didn't make the registration look old skool CF-MVU . The plane looks great.
It is looking great Glen. And I'm enjoying the cap :)
Looking good!
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Lookin’ Good!!
looks fantastic
LOVE the letters: C for Canada. FM and VU for radio sound equipment as well. (I'm an Aussie radio presenter, with my kids living in CA)
Looks fantastic!
Man that looks great, keep doing what you’re doing!
Looking good!
I can smell the paint from here
Nice job teasing us with the lunch box at the beginning, I was really wondering what you brought for a day of working on the plane. :)
Watch while skiing at sun peaks! Oh Canada!
I love it. I just kinda hope/wish you do a white border on the letters or something but that may not be practical. Just something to help them pop.
Looks great 👍
That is sharp!
Well, they'll see you in the pattern, that's for sure.
power, performance prestige....sweeeeeeeeeet :)
Love it
Hi Glenn,I was watching your episode talking about painting the stripe... you could add colored paper to get a better idea what it actually will look like.
Or… you could just apply wrap like Jimmy did on his Cherokee 6 on TH-cams (Jiimeys World). We used wrap for the logo’s on our MD-80s at Alaska Airlines. A C172 is a whole lot slower than a jet and it lasted a whole lot longer than paint.
Looks good, the pinstripe should be just right.
Glen, Great video. Love the series and your cooking channel. My question is, do you make the stripe level with the plane in the ground or level when in flight? Maybe it is the camera angle but it appears to me that the plane as it is sitting is slightly tail down.
As soon as the engine will be started, the plane will level (nose will go down, tail up) they’re all (Cessnas at least) tail low when turned off.
How about a shark mouth like the Flying Tigers?😁
The aircraft looks fantastic, great paint job. You mentioned that wheel pants were an option. Are you going to install the missing wheel pants or leave them off. I think the aircraft would look better with them on.
Looking great! Will you be at Osh Kosh? If so, I’ll buy you a beer.
Looking Great! I assume that once the final polishing/painting is done, there will be a Clear coat over everything to help preserve the shine?
You need one of those spinning laser levels.
If you can't get scratches out it's because you didn't start with a coarse enough abrasive. The initial abrasive has to leave heavy scratches near in magnitude to what you want to remove. Go all one way until the whole surface is covered with an even field of the scratches you put on all running one way. The original scratches have to disappear on this first sanding. If they didn't switch to a coarser grit and start over. Then switch to the next finer grit and sand the other way. Sand until all the old lines are gone and the whole surface is covered with an even field of scratches the new direction. Continue that way to a fine grit and then switch to polish. If you don't start with a coarse enough grit you'll never get the scratches out and you'll just end up with polished scratches. Nobody wants that (unless it's an artistic effect you're going for).
I should have been more clear with my wording and the use of 'scratches' - perhaps Gouges would have better?
In any event with even the most aggressive aviation approved polish, and someone who polishes his own WW-2 aircraft at my side helping and guiding me - there was no hope of clearing / removing the marks.
Glen, did you ever hear back from Trent Palmer on doing a collaboration? Your plane looks great.
I didn't - There are a few YT pilots that I want to collab with; but until C-FMVU has cleared all of the test flights I haven't been too aggressive in trying to get in touch with them.
Who would everyone like to see me fly with? Some of my ideas are:
Trent Palmer
Flight Chops
Aviation 101
SoCal Flying Monkey
Angle Of Attack
Blancolirio
Taking Off
@@GlensHangar I believe the list you have is a great start. Maybe add a meet-up at an Oshkosh or Sun and Fun. Jimmy's World would be an interesting meet-up, he is a jokester. Also Mike Patey would be good.
@@humbledsparrows4687 Sun and Fun is a possibility this year, as is some of the fly ins at Triple Tree. But Oshkosh won't work out this summer (we're taking viewers from our cooking channel to Mexico City that week).
Looks incredible but a question, why paint? Why not vinyl wrap? I see more and more going with the vinyl and seeing someone using paint it makes me ask. Looks really good though.
Tough question - I did look at Vinyl and costed it out for the design I wanted. It came in a little higher than paint (though Paul is a friend and didn't charge full freight, so there was a major advantage). The second consideration was how long it would last; I've seen a lot of planes with vinyl striping where the vinyl has dried out / cracked / peeled after a few years of UV / weather exposure and it looks horrible. The paint will outlast vinyl by a long shot - or should outlast vinyl by a long shot.
Check back in a couple of years and we'll see?
Just a car mechanic here but love the aviation stuff more... Why have the tires at such a low pressure? Most cars stored benefit from full pressure cold if stored or not moved for more than 30 days, as well as it making it much easier to move around. Prevents flat spots as well from sitting in one place for to long. Just curious. Great series
The tires get a lot of questions - over the 6 months or so that we've been working on the plane and not flying it, we've inflated and deflated the tires more times than I care to remember. It seems that every piece of gear or operation requires that the plane be 'levelled' differently and depending on where it's sitting in the hangar we'll add or remove air to accomplish this. What you see in the video is just whatever the tires were set to after the last task.
@@GlensHangar I never thought about the leveling part as well as it might be better to have them low when you don't want it rolling away on you while working on it. :)
nice
love the progress! Do you still have the wheel fairings?
Glen, did you have to rough up the area that was painted?
We used a chemical process for aluminum - pretty nasty stuff
Sure Fire magneto, light weight brushless starter, LED lighting, and new Avionics. And you applied paint? Not UV resistant wrap?
I can tell by three comments in 5 minutes that the idea of paint really bothers you on so many levels... The cost of painting this was waaaaaaaaay cheaper than vinyl wrap.
Looking very nice! Questions...Did you use something to clean/prep the aluminum before primer - if so what product?
What Primer did you use?
I see you used a Nason paint which type Nason paint? Was it Nason Fullthane?
I did the standard chem aluminum prep with alodine etc - opinions vary on wether that's necessary, but I did it anyway.
I'll ask Paul what exact primer he used; I do know it was an epoxy. As for the paint; pretty sure it was a urethane? But again, I let Paul do his thing and didn't intrude much on his process.
Are you going to clear coat the aluminum to preserve the look? Cheers from Winnipeg.
We're going to try 'John's 360' and see what that does.
.....oh...just thinking...long term, will the paint adhere better to the flat surfaces than the screws, rivets and seams?
Yes - if you stop to look at small aircraft on the ramp, you'll see that the paint peels first from the leading edges and then the next spot is around the rivets. The stress and flexing at the rivets causes the paint to fail. But it's unavoidable.
I actually think the width is perfect.
The stripe color, rear, and numbers look really great against the aluminium. But sorry, the front section is way too wide. Spoils it.
Need more hats!
Maybe someday?
@@GlensHangar sooner over later!
SHMEXY!!!!
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