and Skylark... I keep meaning to comment on your covering job. Very very nice! It seems I always set out to do the 'perfect' covering job. It fights me. I alway get a bubble or few and a wrinkle or few and it isn't perfect. But oddly, once at the field, maybe it is the heat/cool cycles or something, but my covering seems to be just as good as any and those tiny flaws seem to go away. I do notice that most ARFs have these little flaws as well, so I guess even the experts don't get it exactly right... or maybe the time to do it is just too pressing on them?

I did use the Monocote trim 'juice' for those large wing tip areas. A portion of those, like 6" is over balsa as a 6' roll of covering won't reach the end. But the front areas overlap the base covering and the trim juice did a good job and I managed to get it down pretty much bubble free. I was really happy about that part. That stuff is great! I've never covered a wing this big with plastic and I'm amazed at how long it takes to just run a heat gun over it!