ORIGINAL: vger105
I'm almost done with the building part of my Great Planes J-3 and I've been dreading the next part; covering it with Monokote. I noticed Ultrakote mentioned on this forum. Is Ultrkote better than Monokote? Are there any tricks to covering curved parts, like the ends of the wings, stabilizers, etc.? I have an iron for applying Monokote and I have the dial set about halfway. Is that correct or is more heat better? It's been quite a while since I've built a model plane and the only thing about Monokote that comes back to me is it was difficult. Any help would be appreciated.
Do yourself a real favor. Have an airplane that looks real and really good for sometime, one that will make you proud.
Forget film and go with fabric. If you would search around for some different items:
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http://www.horizonhobby.com/Products...?ProdID=WTX112
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FYI here are some fabric machines. The monokote bipe is almost 15 years old but not flown in the past 6. Sorry I did that.
The fabric and painted models are definitely miles ahead of money-kote. The Eindecker is some 4 years old and is the Poly Fibre RC stuff, much lighter than the 1:1 scale material. In my learned opinion fabric is the only way to go. All the clear-coated machines are done with 5-6 coats of clear butyrate dope including the Eindecker. Keeps all very tight.