fstevenj

Here is mine. Ultra Sport 40+ with OS70. Maidened last week.

Phlip

Nice plane, Slam. I especially like the way it changes color when it's flying!

Jim_Purcha

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Here's my first covering job in 17 years.

Scale Freak

Unionville 6' span Otter in the Wardair colours of the 50s. Large lettering was printed on Ultrcote using an inkjet printer.
The small lettering is vinyl stick on letters spray painted red. Stripes are cut from full sheets of Ultracote.

EF

Sig Smith Miniplane, covered with Dave Brown Skyloft, and brushed polyurethane paint.
After reading so much negative feedback on this material, I just had to have a go myself...
My impression? good stuff!

bps

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Here is a BUSA Solartex cover with acrylic latex and satin polyurethane. Also a Sig SE monocoated.

JEB

KitBuilder

BPS... how does the bristol fly.... i've heard conflicting reports... i would like to get into ww1 scale.. and it seems like a nice kit.. reasonably priced.. good looks, etc....
Mike

KitBuilder

How does your bristol fly... i'm interested in the kit.
mike

smchale

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Cool Thread...here's a few of my covering jobs...some monokote, some glassed and painted, the p47 is glassed then covered with flitemetal...

british bloke

here,s my seagul dual ace recovered in coastguard scheme ala cessna g-404

british bloke

as above, my da

0z0

Here is the scratch build plane "Johnny" made by my son. All the cover is Monokote and Lustrekote paint on the cowl and landing gear.

Bolio

Hermano, orgulloso debe estar tu hijo por tan bonito decorado, doblemente por que ademas es hecho de planos, felicidades. ¿Donde estan esos planos?
Brother; you should be very proud for your son´s job, beautifull job.
Where can I find those planes?
Saludos.

0z0

Estimado José los planos me fueron facilitados por un amigo aeromodelista, no se si estarán disponibles en la red en alguna parte. El modelo es una delicia de volar, agil pero muy estable, puede hacer multiples acrobacias como también muy facil de aterrizar por su gran superfice alar, practicamente flota, es como un entrenador al aterrizarlo.

Saludos

bipeguy03

Here Is my goldberg sukhoi, recelntly finished. Covering is all monokote, paint is lustrekote; missle red, metallic blue and jet white with black 3/32 pen strips made with smart stripe tool. bottom is checkarboarded with 4" checkars on wings and 3" on tail. took about 4 weeks to fishish.

Boogey Man

My hat goes off to all of you. There are some really beautiful planes on this thread. Unfortunately my talents are not that great.

Since there is so much experience at covering on this thread I wanted to ask for some advice on the plane that I am putting together.

The plane is a LT 40 Kadet. It came completely covered in aerokote I believe it is. It is solid white!!! It does have 2 sheets of decals that come with it, which I guess will make it look like a white cow with stripes.

What goes good on aerokote? I don't really want to recover the plane before it's maiden flight.

Does anyone have any great (simple) ideas on how I can spruce up the looks of this plane. I have an covering iron and hot air gun but my experience in covering is very limited. Thanks for any advice and keep up the good work, these planes are simply beautiful!!!

will in the 985

i just put some stripes down the side of my plane and it looks great.

starfire73

Great looking airplanes... all of them. I am almost done covering my first airplane (Goldberg Eagle2), and boy do these planes ever make me feel intimidated. I have it all covered in neon green Monokote, and I plan on ironing on some metallic blue designs, wow - I'm going to have to put a little more time into it than I had planned.

A quick question (since we're on the subject of covering). There was a warning on the neon green monokote, it said that neon colors are at a risk of fading with either UV light, and CA accelerator. How likely is it that this color will fade rapidly?

fyredog

Here is something I threw together

damifino

All neon colors are prone to fade much faster than standard colors. Don't fret about it, though, unless you store your bird in direct sunlight all the time. Most models expire long before the coating has a chance to fade!

Mayday!Mayday!

Can I show off mine too?
This is the Parkzone F-27 Stryker covered in Ultracote. Gotta love the Red, White and Blue! I know it's not a balsa build, but if it helps I used balsa for the elevons


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sscherin

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A few simple stripes can have a nice effect..
For my Step Son's eagle I just cut up a bunch of 1/4" strips of Monokote and used them for pin striping..
I used a 4' aluminum straight edge as a guide. I've even used a sheet of 1/4" ply as a cutting guide before..

Don't stress if the iron gets some of the colored adhesive on it and starts smearing color all over the covering.. it's a simple to cleanup with a little acetone on a paper towel.

I had little purple marks all over the tail of the Eagle when I was done.. The acetone fixed it right up.

The Stick is a different story..
I wanted to do something different so it's covered with fabric and painted..
It's polyester dress lining applied with 2 coats of Polycryllic
2 coats latex primer (mostly sanded off)
2 coats Rustoleum rattle can paint for the main color and stripes
Logos printed on a Color laser on plain paper (I'm still working out a few issues with applying and sealing them)
Water based Exterior Spar Urethane satin finish clear coat.

0z0

Nice work man, how did you make the jaws of the stick? Is the P-40 Flying Tigers scheme? Are painted or printed? could you send me the files including the eye?
[email protected]
Thanks in advance
regards

Rate1

sscherin,

Nice work on the Stick.

Myself are considering a more durable covering for my plane but are woried about the extra weight a dope painted cloth covering would be compared to reg Ultracote. Do you have any idea on the weight difference (before and after) of your Stick?

sscherin

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Yeah it's a 23rd Fighter Group "Flying Tigers" Theme.

I posted all the images on the Stick rebuild thread
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=6201447

I printed them on plain paper using an OKI C5200N Color laser.
The down side is you can't use an iron after they are on.. It'll melt the toner.

I applied the smaller ones with white elmers school glue and topped them with Water Based PolyUrethane. They are doing OK.. the bigger ones I used 3M Super 77 Spray.. That didn't turn out so great..
When I put the WBPU over the sprayed ones they wrinkled and bubbled a bit but flattened out as they dried.
I had one lift on the edges after it was dry.. I just tacked it back down with the white glue and brushed the edges with WBPU.
So far so good..

I have not tried applying the larger ones with the white glue.. maybe next time.