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Old 03-25-2009 | 01:19 AM
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Default recovering a plane?

I recently bought my wife a highwing trainer at a fun fly/swap meet. she likes the plane but wants to change the colors. she picked up some monokote that she wants to use and a heat gun and iron. I've never covered a plane before so I had her get a roll of cub yellow so I could practice on a plane I crashed and have been rebuilding. I think by the time I've finished recovering my Cub I'll be ready to cover her plane. but here's my question, on my Cub I've had to rebuild the entire tail including the stabs and control surfaces. I'm covering everything on mine seperately then going to trim the covering and rehinge it like when I first built the ARF. how do you recover a plane thats already built? do I have to cut the stabs out of the fuse and remove the hinges or is there a way to cover the plane complete?