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Paint the friendly skies

By Rain Noe - January 27, 2009

in Object Culture

Senior year, design school, modelmaking class: After spending weeks sculpting your mock-up it was time to paint it, often the make-or-break moment for your project. And masking it was always a b*tch. Well, if you thought painting your Transportation Design clay model was hard, imagine trying to paint a 230-foot long airplane. That's the problem Delta's tackling with their recent takeover of Northwest. How long will it take them to rebrand their newly-acquired planes? About two years, and 40,000 gallons of paint. This fascinating video cuts the 12-day painting process down to three minutes:

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christianius

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12 days! Can't help wondering if it wouldn't be faster, cheaper and far more environmentally friendly to use decals - like model airplanes, or taxicabs here in Europe.

But perhaps its tough to get the stuff to stay stuck on through the subzero, high UV, high windspeed thrashing aircraft take.
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