ORIGINAL: goirish
Looking at the cover of Model Aviation October 2007 and wonder how do they get covering like that. I am bascially a scratch builder and I can cover pretty good, but I can't compete with that
. I would really like to see that done [8D].
Actually you could do that just like they do. Go to a sign shop that does vinyl, which most of them do nowadays. And have 'em run you off some templates if they don't have machines that do Monokote. Give them the measurements and a plan. They do the hard part.
Then you clean off the dining room floor and take 30 or 40 rolls of Monokote and have at it.
Iron on ain't so hard. Have you ever seen one of the Control Line Precision Aerobatics models that have even more intricate designs? They're painted. And have to not only be gorgeous but light. And light really matters. Really. And the Goodyear Pylon racers of some years back looked as good. Actually often looked better on average because they actually didn't have the weight problem as bad.
But that big sucker does look good doesn't it. Iron on or not.