Hi Dutchman, and welcome to the forums!! I don't know if there is any tried and true method to applying the packing tape correctly, I know from my personal experience I tended to stick it along the length of the wing and pulled fairly tightly, The same for the fuselage. I tried to use as little tape as possible and only overlapped it by about 5mm (I think that's about 1/4 inch) and it looks great, at least it did before the crash, but I'm sure that the tape saved the plane from becoming a total write-off.

Just make sure that you use a clear packing tape and she'll look great. Also, if you haven't already applied the decals (Cessna stickers) yet then cover the plane in tape FIRST!! A friend of mine bought the same plane and he taped it up before he put the stickers on and in my opinion it looks heaps better than mine. So if you can possibly do it before then you'll end up with a better looking plane and you'll be able to remove and apply different stickers some time down the track if you crash it, like I did.

When I bought mine it came packaged as plain foam pieces in the box with the decals on two sticker sheets but I hear that some of the later releases of this plane come with the decals already applied so if that's the case just tape over them and it'll still look better than it does in stock form.

As far as using any of the shrink wrap materials IE. Momokote, Solarfilm etc. DON'T DO IT!!! The temperature needed to shrink and bond the film is higher than the melting temperature of the foam used in this plane.

Perhaps somebody may invent a low temperature covering some time in the future but as far as I know, it doesn't exist yet. Come to think of it, a low temperature shrink wrap covering for park flyer foamies would be a great idea!!! I wonder if anybody has the patent on that yet...

Good luck and keep us informed as to how you go!! Post a couple of pictures when you get it finished, I'd love to see how it looks. Probably a lot like mine did before I beat it up!! Oh, the memories... I'm going to make a phone call to the patent office now so I'll look out for your future posts...

Cheers!!