Small caveat today with the primary 6 project. I took a day off work to go down to Lasers Are Us in Pyle and unfortunately they said it may be difficult to paint the acrylic panel without it A. looking kind of crap, and B. The paint may not stick to the panels and just rub off... so... bugger. My best option is to have the material in the colour that I want and then engrave into the panel. Once that is done I can colour fill with white paint and they should look superb. Only problem is that my plastics supplier doesn't have 3mm acrylic in grey only black so I have to go for black for both panels. Shame. It would have been nice to have the original colour of the Cessna on the left side but sometimes you can't have everything. I think I have been lucky with this project so far. A couple of holes missing here and there but everything fits together great..so..happy days. Hopefully I can get some more panels laser cut in work and they can start to engrave them. I now have 12 x 600mm x 300mm black (gloss) pieces of acrylic as the supplier didn't have any offcuts of this particular one. Woo Hoo. It's actually quite cheap and they sold it to me in half sheets. So... not a major problem, just a slight, ever so slight direction change. I have included a pic of what it will look like in black. Actually looks kind of dashing.
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