Airwarrior

What's your method?

I've just about finished applying the PC-10 to my Pup, and I've got no idea how to do the next step. I'm at atotal loss for what the best material for masking would be.


Any tips?

summerwind

i trying a product that is sold at Michael's.....name is "Con-Tact" and is made by
http://www.contactbrand.com/

the stuff that Michael's carries that i bought is transparent peel-n-stick. it has a low adhesive grip, but enough so that it stays put. it does not pull the paint off when removing it.
this tip was given to me by Joe of Proctor Enterprises.
i too got stuck at doing these. this stuff works though.

my CNC programmer from my shop cut templates for me so i have all the sizes to do roundels on 2 models i'm doing.

oh yeah, the roll i bought for $5.00 is 18"x24ft

and a great tip i learned from Chip Mull of F&M is to lay the tape or contact down, seal the edges with the same color you are painting over. using the same color keeps from showing.

R8893

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Dave, I use contact paper to make the masksthe sticky stuff you normally use to line drawers. I like the plain white stuff if I can find it. I made a circle cutter by screwing a #11 blade t the end of a piece of 1x2 lumber. Then I drill a hole in the wood at the radius of the circle and insert a needle from a drafting compass. I cut the masks on a piece of glass. Tape the contact paper to the glass and tape a piece of scrap lite ply at the center for the compass needle to stick in. Now just rotate the compass and cut your circle. Getting the circles in registration can be a problem. I draw a couple perpendicular lines intersecting at the center of the circles and use these plus some marks on the model to get the circles registered.
Chuck

R8893

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roundels on my HandleyPage O-400

summerwind

Beautiful!!
Chuck, what kinda of paint did you use on the Handley?

i'm still looking into paint for my N28

R8893

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Summerwind:
The HP O-400 is covered with colored Solartex. The top is olive drab and the bottom is (senior moment: whatever they call the cream colored stuff). It is overcoated with oil based clear polyurethane. The roundels themselves are painted with Rustoleum. However I am seeing a problem with it. The fuselage roundel on the left side gets some exhaust residue, and the white is crinkling up and will peel off. I used to thnk Rustoleum was fuel proof, but I now have two models showing deterioration of gloss paint. The flat colors I have used are holding up well.
Chuck