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Joined: 5/24/2002 From: up yours, TX, USA Status: offline
Here ya go Gator I gave it a try.....
I think it would have been quicker to airbrush....but ohwell I didn't spend too much time on it. I want to get the sledge in the air...hehe
I need to find a way to just paint everything....I wonder if I ultracoted the plane then paint then clear if it would hold up for any period of time....May have to try it on my omp.
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Joined: 5/24/2002 From: up yours, TX, USA Status: offline
Thanks dude.....yeah I think I going to find a way to paint my planes....just need to do some tests on some differnt ways of doing things....later, Ken
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Joined: 10/28/2003 From: Sammamish,
WA, USA Status: offline
Hi Gator,
How's this for from one Gator to another? Did you go to UF? I liked your concept so much that I decided to try it on a Sportster that I'm finishing up. But this one is a tribute to the great nation of Texas where this plane was born before we moved to the Northwest. In the photo, the red, blue, and the gray edges are just dry fit and not tacked down. One question...
Do you have any tips on dealing with the aileron gaps? Do you just cut down the centerline and iron down the edges, or do you have a cleaner method?
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Joined: 4/25/2002 From: MEMPHIS, TN, USA Status: offline
Hey SMU your sporster looks GREAT! I didn't go to UF, but I'm from Gainesville so I was born a GATOR....more people know me as GATOR than my real name On your ailerons, I would just cut them down the center like you mention and iron them down to the TE of the wing and the LE ofr the aileron.. good luck with it...GO GATORS......G
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Joined: 10/28/2003 From: Sammamish,
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Thanks for the tips! I still have some work to do, but I'm pretty happy with the way the wing turned out. I may go back and trim out the aileron gaps a litlle better, but I like the rest. Go Gators!
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Joined: 11/26/2002 From: Cincinnati, OH, USA Status: offline
Do we really want to turn this into a political argument? This is a thread that teaches us how to make a 3d flag, it just happens that Termigator used an American flag. I am sure it would work just as well for the Union Jack.
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Joined: 12/2/2003 From: Hernando,
MS, USA Status: offline
I'm relitivaly new to r/c planes but have covered a trainer I had. I am currently building a SE and am thinking about doing this scheme to my plane. My only concern is that I have never used this windex method. Does the windex activate the glue on the back?
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Joined: 12/7/2001 From: Bartlett,
TN, USA Status: offline
No... the windex doesn't activate the glue... but serves as a mild adhesive itself given the soapy content... That soap in the windex just kinda grabs the covering and doesn't let it up.... You still need to hit the edges with trim solvent though.... Otherwise the glow fuel will eventually eat its way under the trim...
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