A few weeksna go a buddy of mine gave me an Extra 300 profile plane. Reason was is because it had the sticky paper covering instead of real iron on. He had the worste luck with it with holes and repairing it.

I got a hold of it and pulled all the cheapo sticky covering off. I then recovered it with Ultracoat in a kind of american flag pattern. I wanted some lettering for the wings and put EXTRA 300 on the right wing. I checked out the hobby shops and founf the lettering they had looked more like a registration code than anything. I was looking for a atalic bold text. Wjat I wanted is to have Yellow lettering with a black border around it.

What I ended up doing was using the sticky trim sheet for this. For my large lettering I used a ruler and a good straight edge and a new Exacto blade to cut it with. The only thing is it took me forever to make the lettering and then drawing it on back of sticky trim sheet backwards. I had to measuer the thickness of the letters and the spacing. It was the most pain to do. I divided up my trim sheet for the size of each letter as if it was wrote out. Then I used a straight edge to cut nice straight lines. In the end it looked very way but sure was a pain to do.

Then I had to add lettering on the sides of the fuse. But by this tike I refused doing it other way regardless on how nice it ended up looking.

So then I decided to use my compter to make the lettering. I found that is the way i should have gone in first place. It was easy to adjust size of text and there were so many different designs I could use to make the lettering.

What I did from there was pick one I liked then print it out to the size I was looking for. Then I used some 3M spray adhesive I got from walmart and sparyed back of trim sheet and layed down the printed out sheet on top of it. After it dried it was like one peice of trim sheet and did not move. I did try using tape but it did not stay put as I had liked.

After it was glued down I used my straight edge and an new exacto blade to cut out the letters. so far they look good.

I was just wondering if there is an easier way of doing this. It works for me but nsame here.