1. My painter is continuing to paint the cammo scheme. I note that the tail star and checkerboard are done, and the nose numbers are painted but not totally unmasked.
2. We established a level reference for all the aircraft insignia. It's essentially the canopy sill and the aft fuselage skin seam. With this critical determination, I located and taped on the "star & bar" insignia masks to each side.
3. My fiend Jim and I laid out the straight lines for the antiglare panel on the top forward skin. I should put "straight lines" in quotes, because on a surface that curves in multiple directions, it's pretty tricky to get a pleasingly straight edge. Luckily, Jim is ridiculously good at this particular artistic pursuit. The first line took a while as we made tiny adjustments here and there, in very non-intuitive ways. The second line went surprisingly fast. I think we arrived at a good-looking solution.
4. Finally, we removed the canopy, in preparation for my painter completing the canmo color transitions underneath the canopy skirt edge.