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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 12/2/2005 10:33:05 PM

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It was a great thread for sure and Gator is probably the best there is in my book. Man you guys ought to see some of the stuff he is doing over where he regularly posts now. Truely ARTWORK. The guy is a freakin genius! If I'm not mistaken though, those pictures were given to 3D flyer by the author of the original though............could be wrong.

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 6/7/2006 4:25:36 AM

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Here is my stab at it. I wanted to do something different with my Hobbistar 60. The original striping was coming off and it just needed a general jazzing up. This was my first try at covering a plane as well. It was different that I had to stretch the covering over the ends since it is rounded and not squared off like you guys' planes. The first shot is a before.

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 6/7/2006 5:21:22 PM

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Fantastic job!

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 6/7/2006 7:11:01 PM

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Yeah, That is too cool. Way to go!

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 7/28/2006 5:49:35 AM

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Hey gator, i have laser cutter, i have had it for about a month, and for the heck of it put some monocote in there and WOW! it cut it like nobody's business! I have an 18x24 cutting area and can actually set the laser to cut through the monocote AND NOT THE BACKING! its like a non sticky pressure sensitive label! Anything you can make in corel draw you can cut out of monocote, imagine! anyway just an FYI.

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RE: How to make a 3D <span class= - 8/1/2006 9:56:18 PM

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Are you guys getting more than a couple of months worth of flying before the fuel begins to lift the points of the stars? (using the trim solvent to seal all edges, on monokote) Sorry if I missed it, long thread! But DOES trim solvent work a lot better than acetone? Also.... does trim solvent/acetone? work at all on Ultracoat?

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 8/1/2006 10:03:40 PM

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Ernie,
I found using a trim iron to seal down the edges works best for me.

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RE: How to make a 3D <span class= - 8/14/2006 9:41:08 PM

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Are you guys getting more than a couple of months worth of flying before the fuel begins to lift the points of the stars? (using the trim solvent to seal all edges, on monokote) Sorry if I missed it, long thread! But DOES trim solvent work a lot better than acetone? Also.... does trim solvent/acetone? work at all on Ultracoat?

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Ernie

I'm confused.....the stars are cut out of the blue covering aren't they? how do they start lifting up?

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 8/15/2006 4:54:00 AM

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Snarlacles: the stars are actually cut out of white monokote then stuck on over the blue.

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 8/15/2006 5:02:03 AM

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Snarlacles: the stars are actually cut out of white monokote then stuck on over the blue.

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 8/15/2006 6:35:47 AM

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My stars are cut out of the blue, so the white shows though...

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 8/15/2006 7:32:05 PM

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My stars are cut out of the blue, so the white shows though...

yeah, thats what I thought he was doing in this pic, cutting the stars outta the blue, thanks for clearing that up

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 8/16/2006 5:54:18 AM

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I did it the other way... So sorry for the confusion. No hard feelings?

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 8/16/2006 2:44:46 PM

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Actually the way I cut them out was my wife had a "star" cookie cutter that I used to trace them, and that worked really well...since I can't even draw a straight line with a ruler

RCFURY- I guess you could do it either way...since I took the blue stars that were cut out and put them on the bottom of the wing for some contrast, I don't think it matters too much, just whatever works better for each person.

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 8/17/2006 1:43:16 AM

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All I can say is

WOW

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 9/12/2006 2:42:56 PM

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Danafinance.....SUPER JOB!!!! 2 thumbs up my friend.....

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RE: How to make a 3D American Flag on your planes - 9/19/2006 8:31:45 PM