Geez Dumorian, I thank you kindly for the complement. Actually, I'm just a simple sport-flier, not a builder - I just build them to keep planes in the air (wouldn't ever consider an ARF/RTF for my stable). I build them as best I can, cover them so they don't totally embarrass me, and hope. I almost always get a wrinkle or 2 on a wing. I just do my best not to make them too obvious. Bubbles! Yeah, not a monokoted plane in my collection DOESN'T/didn't have at least a couple. I just use a straight-pin to pop 'em and iron 'em down as best I can, then wait and watch the whole thing fix itself on the first 95 degree day I'm out at the field. Amazing, what the sun can do for a botched job.

The BoT is probably the best covering job I've done in years - monokote covering, that is. Some of my birds are actually doped materials (usually koverite for RC birds, silkspan for CL) and they ALWAYS come out right. Must be the 55+ years experience with dope that brings that out. Even with the BoT, I cheated a bit. The fuse isn't monokote - 3 coats butyrate clear, sanded once, butyrate white lightly sanded and sprayed with Lustrekote. I took one look at all those concave surfaces and decided that there was no way I was going to be able to monokote it and have it come out looking like anything more than a plastic bag with a frame inside. Gotta admit, it does look decent.

Understood about the 'juice', although I've never used it. On those occasions I have to go farther than the roll extends I usually cut it off at a rib-cap and continue a new piece at that point, then shrink the whole thing at once.

Heat gun? You have a heat gun? WOW! I used my wife's iron until she screamed loud enough about her white blouses having color streaks on 'em, then I went out and bought her a new one (iron) - keeping the old one for the planes.

Hey! Wanna screw up a perfectly good iron? I know how - just use Koverite with SIG Stix-it. Guaranteed, you're gonna go through a quart (or more) of dope thinner keeping it semi-clean. When I restored my Great Lakes biplane I did the smart thing (for a change), bought 2 quarts of thinner when I ordered all the stuff to cover it. Ended up with about a small juice glass of thinner at the end.

Ye gads, the things I've done to that poor girl, and she's stayed with me for over 42 years - she deserves a medal.