Question for those of you such as Oli who have experience of using Wea on a model covered in flite-metal. Any problems I need to be aware of due to the metal causing blank spots, multi-path etc?

My English Electric Lightning (Mick Reeves kit) has been flying on and off for a couple of years but in an un-painted state. I have now completed it using Flite-metal and worry about blanking of the signal in certain angles especially from behind. I use a DV3 tx module. The model is fitted with a 12-22 gizmo Rx and 2 flat patch antennae. One antenna is in the blue spine on top, just behind the cockpit so it is just outside the flite-metal, and the other is opposite it on the bottom of the fuselage and where it is located I painted a square about 5 inches long with humbrol metal-cote aluminium, instead of applying the flite-metal, in the hope that the paint will be less reflective to the 2.4GHz signal. My worry is that from behind, slightly low, the top antenna is blanked by the fuselage and wings, and the bottom one is blanked by the flite-metalled bulge of the Lightning's ventral fuel tank and the model's real fuel tank which sits down in the bulge.

I will do thorough range testing before flying it, and keep the first flight short and close and review the data before continuing, but I just wonder is it your experience that I am worrying about nothing or does the flite-metal cause it real problems? Flite-metal's website says it is not a problem for 2.4GHz but it would say that wouldn't it?!

The finish had its public unveiling at a static show in England yesterday, see pics