Wheel replacements for T-28 Trojan

Last night I cleaned up and masked off the areas for repainting. Had to wear my reading glasses for this one. Weather here in SoCal was about 71 degrees with rain coming so this morning I went ahead and shot the black on.
The factory wing stickers were dried up and falling apart. I was going to make new ones using Monocote trim sheet but opted to spray them when I did the anti glare panel on the cowling. Before I started I removed the old decals from the fuse sides. They were practically etched on. I don't know if someone used some sort of fuel proofer on them but they were a bite and a half to get off. Used about 8 coats of ELO decal and paint remover to get them off but it turned out well.

Here's a close up of the cowling before any work was done. Some wear here and there but it held up quite well for 50 years.


Got everything masked using Scotch painters tape. It took a while to do this part. I cleaned the cowling and had no problem removing most the old factory paint. I used my old stock of K&B Superpoxy which is about 32 years old. I used it on another project two years ago and it still works great.



Using muh trusty Paasche which is also about the same age.


All airbrushed. I used toothpicks to keep paint out of the filler tubes.



All in all I'm happy with the way it turned out. The wing walk panels look way better than the stickers that were on there. I won't even begin to handle these parts until about another 3 days even though it's dry to the touch in about half an hour and is completely fuel proof from my experience using Superpoxy. I'll concentrate now on how I'll handle the wheel/tire situation.