AT-6D "Texan" Painting page 2

Painting an airplane is always an "enlightening" experience.  For example, you can find the rat nest that is inside the wing that has been there for a very long time.

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Last look at the "Spanish Fly."  A fun name, and a "cute" fly, but you can only take so much primer showing through.
The rat nest.  I wonder how much flying time the rat got?  Maybe even some combat time in Spain.
A common look to the bits and pieces that just needed to be restored.  JR Paden replaced all of these hydraulic lines and found that several of the threads matched no threading he could find.  He removed much (but not all) of this airframes multi-national (i.e. mechanically bastardized) history and brought it back to North American standard.
Because of the airframes liberal history with a very tough form of Zinc Chromate, stripping proved to be more difficult than anticipated.