De-regulation "something something."
Lots of airlines were swallowed up in that time period. One two punch... de-reg in the US and the Oil Crisis one after another in short span. At least.... that's it in a nutshell. "List of defunct US airlines" on wiki is one of my favorite places to peruse old airlines schemes and there are lots of casualties of the 70's-80's in there.
Scotaidh, thanks, bud!! I've been determined to "crack the code" as it were to rattle can painting because if I can, it should, in theory, be the quickest and easiest way to paint a thing. I've focused heavily on it over the past nearly two years now along with my "airliner university" plan of action to learn and build airliners. As a result, I'm making headway on the painting and starting to get some really nice results with less effort. I still mess things up from time to time (orange peel on some parts of this one) but on the whole it's turning out to be a viable method of painting. If it it can work for airliners and their demanding schemes, then it should also work for other less demanding things.
Masking is important... the favorite part of my breakthroughs in rattle canning have been being able to mask things, even tiny things like 1mm wide long line... without paint bleed and without having to resort to "sealing" techniques which make the paint thick at borders and create ridges. Proper application is good but having PROPER, QUALITY masking tape has made a huge difference. Having an arsenal of different sizes has been a life saver, as well. I picked up some a few months ago...it was pretty pricey but worth every penny.
Should be done with this one today. I've done some thinking about the glass and now that I've rested up a couple days without working on it I'm more willing to devote some time to it this afternoon instead of going straight for the glory. So.... what I might do is just mask around the cockpit windscreen opening and paint a silver border around that... then just paint the canopy by hand... a few vertical silver lines places here and there ought to do it, I suppose. The only other option I can think of is to put the clear piece in then throw a windscreen decal over top of it which might not work very well.
