Just a quick update showing my painted panel temporary held in place in the cockpit. I'm currently working on the cowling, the top skin is clecoed and the plane is hanging up by the tail. So the real installation will have to wait a bit. But I couldn't resist having a look how it will be. It looks very good, I'm pleased with the result.

My step daughters husband is a professional painter and painted this first black. then I applied lettering using GhostWhiter decals with white laser printing. Applied all the labels and then he sprayed a couple of layers of matt lack on it. 

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