On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:29:37 -0500, Michael Horowitz
wrote:

On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:05:40 +0800, Stealth Pilot
wrote:

Stealth - Can you think of any way to tint the turp/oil mix? when it
comes time to remove it, it would help if I could see that I got it
all off (assuming I use a solvent of some type) - Mike

just use any brightly coloured powdered dye. what you have in the
linseed oil/turps mix is a poor mans varnish without any of the modern
additives. a finely crushed bricklayer's iron oxide red would probably
be suitable.
but ummmm. isnt the surface a dark rusted colour anyway.
when you come to prepare for the final finishing you will be bead
blasting the thing with ballottini (glass beads) and these should take
the linseed off in a trice. the surface will become a light gunmetal
gray colour (unless your air supply isnt dry)
I'm pretty sure a wipe of MEK would do it as well, maybe even neat
turps but dont agonise over it now wait until the final bead blast.

I actually dont know what happened to the fuselage I coated. it is on
the other side of australia now.

Stealth Pilot