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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 3/27/2005 1:46:20 AM

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Finished my XLT 2nite... Here's what it looks like assembled...

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 3/27/2005 3:03:54 AM

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SAAAAWEEEET

Very nice job!!!!!

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 3/27/2005 3:58:45 AM

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Thanks... I just hope it'll fly... lol

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 4/12/2005 12:02:02 AM

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My first attempt at a 3D American flag.

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 4/13/2005 4:25:20 PM

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Termagator : Thanks for going to all the trouble to post your excellent tutorial.
here is my first try:

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 4/14/2005 4:01:31 AM

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gator, i think you hit on somthing here... whats this been up, a year now?

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 4/15/2005 10:27:15 PM

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Here is my first attempt. It does work very fine with Oralight and equivalent of Windex we have in France.
Thanks.

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 4/19/2005 2:24:29 PM

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Overtheedge,

I love those old 60 sized pattern planes, I am doing a Bridi Escape and a Dirty Birdi now. Your XLT looks great, you might want to trim out the canopy in white though, break up all that red on top. LOL

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 4/19/2005 11:41:21 PM

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That looks really good, its essentially the same method we use when tinting car windows.

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 4/20/2005 3:50:17 AM

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yep.... i've been thinking of doing that.
thanks for the kind words... i just hope it flies half as good as it looks...

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 5/3/2005 7:13:25 PM

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ORIGINAL: Balsa Master

gator, i think you hit on somthing here... whats this been up, a year now?

I went to a BRO PRO this weekend where Gator uset to fly, they said he was out of R/C and into hang-gliders and "flying lawn chairs". I bet he has a cool look'n hang-glider

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 5/13/2005 6:50:20 PM

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I heard the same thing. He had some personal issues that manifested into real problems. Good luck to him wherever he is and into these days. Wasnt much of a flyer but he could sure cover an airplane!

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 5/15/2005 9:36:42 PM

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Well, here's my version..thanks to the guide! Bottom of taper wing on the Bridie Utter Chaos that I just built. Took a week (first time kit, first time covering)

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 6/27/2005 2:34:29 AM

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Here is my flag attempt on the bottom of my Avistar. I used windex to place the colored monokote on the white covering that came with the plane and then used the iron to tack the edges followed by the heat gun to tighten it up. I only did half because I didn't want to mess up the pretty stripes hobbico already had on it

Came out clean with no bubbles and took less than 2 hours total time.

Thanks for the great techniques - It worked perfectly!!

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 7/5/2005 3:42:38 AM

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Acetone won't attack the film of ultracote/oracover but it will sure take the color off the back side! The color in ultracote is in the glue it appears, rather than the color of the film itself.

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 7/5/2005 3:51:38 AM

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The trim solvent you all are talking about smells like MEK solvent. I'm going to get a quart of it next time I'm at the hardware store and try it. The little bottles they sell at the LHS are awfully high priced!

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 7/29/2005 7:17:35 AM