Thanks Pilot Brandon! It did come out pretty good being the first time. I bought a book that took you through step by step how to cover a model. I read that a couple of times before I planned my scheme. I'm sure that helped. I went really slow, one night I did the tail feathers, the next one wing etc. Took me about a weeks to do the whole thing working about 1-2 hours per night.

As far as the stripes, I bought them in the matching color and just applied them. That was really easy and came out nice. The only "design" I've got are the two blue patches on the wing (and stab). I used a circle as a template for the curved corner and cut both sides at the same time by overlaying two pieces of covering on top of each other.

I also bought a box of 100 razor blades and went through about 50 of them. I found that they get dull very quickly and it's not worth trying to save money on those.

There are also several helpful threads that I read here on RCU about covering. There's, I think, a short video done by MinnFlyer that was also very helpful. I used his approach of gluing two pieces of balsa on a pair of pliers to use for pulling the covering around corners etc.

I would highly recommend getting either a video or a book that goes through the steps. It helped me a lot.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.

-tychoc