Patriot

I have been toying around with the idea of trying differant methods of applying Koverall or Silkspan in ways that make it much lighter than Monokote. Koverall only weighs 1.25 ozs/yd, but generally comes out a little heavier than most plastic films once fully doped and painted, etc. (But not always)

What I am looking for, is the lightest possible way to apply fabric yet still making it look really good.

One idea I had was to try something like dying the Koverall in RIT dye using warm water prior to applying it. But, the sealing dope would of course add weight. I was thinking I could try thinned clear butyratye with Rit dye added to match the fabric then use it to seal. Or, possibly use thinned Polycrylic with the same dye to seal and match the fabric.

If it was an electric plane, i could use nitrate with dye, maybe?

What ideas do you have?

Patriot

kdheath

Koverall is straight synthetic material and AFAIK it won't take Rit dye. If you want to dye clear dope, use Higgins fade-prrof ink from an art suppply place. Let me give you a link to a bunch of conversations about dyeing dope, and hope the link works the way I want it to....

http://www.clstunt.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi

Nope, didn't work. Go to the link, click Search and search for "dye dope" in the main forum over the last year. Some interesting stuff there.