Solarfilm, the ultimate conscience
Sanding.. *sigh*
If you try to cheat yourself with the bright idea of saving time by leaving some areas with poor sanding cause "covering takes care of that", you soon notice, that every single scratch in the original body will be 1000 x worse after attaching Solarfilm. Really. I can look the plane from 2 feet distance and see no scratches or other mistakes, but if i stick my nose (that red striped one) closer to the model, i see Grand Canyon...twice.

Next plane i will sand 'til i drop...

More observations about covering planes with Solarfilm. :stupid:

Thou shall not brag (Braggen sie nicht to Germans). After you've bragged in rcuniverse.com about how wrinkle-free is your plane so far, you soon notice that the Gods of Solarfilm hear that and soon teach you to be humble. You are driven to the edge, no man (ecxept all newbie coverers) has ever been with serious amount of small wrinkles, bubbles and loose seams right after your cursor hits the Submit-button.

Strainer-method: Sheeted fuselages should be full of pinholes to avoid bubbles. Even if you're already fallen in love with your first model plane, you must, for the good of you both, have guts enough to stick the pin thru it like rabid voodoo priest. I know it hurts, but it's a lot better way to do it before, than after putting the Solarfilm on.

Btw: I had no idea, that 2 colored covering in the wing could not be done (or at least one of my friendssaid so, whose brother in law... nevermind). So I just cut 4 pieces of film per wing and ironed them to them.

I've become quite handy with the iron. SHE is looking me with new kind of respect, ecspecially when i rolled the other monster, vacuum cleaner out from its dark cavern, and vacuumed the plane.

Hint: Vacuum the working space as well. Actually you should vacuum the whole room too, cause there's dust everywhere.

Yes. I know that a dinosaur is easier to tame than the pesky vacuum cleaner, but the man's gotta do what man's gotta do.

Besides, after you've already stolen the clothes iron, scissors, pins, brushes (yes, HER make up collection is recovering slowly) and wrapping plastics from the kitchen, SHE's no longer wondering about your new-born interest of domestic war-material. SHE's relieved, if you leave the rolling pin untouched, so she can still warmly wellcome you from the bar.

Err..

Should I make these shorter?

The whole point here was to ask that what do you guys do with those plastic canopies. I didn't attach it under the film (bag full of reasons for that), so now i just have to figure out what to do with it. What glue sticks in Solarfilm?

Btw. In my eyes she (the plane, allthou i dont think SHE is ugly either) is sooooo beautiful. Isn't everyones first born?