ORIGINAL: Deadeye
ORIGINAL: davidgeorge212
You know what I would love. If there is anyone here that has a bad roll of monokote that doesnt shrink or is the wrong color or you hate it for whatever reason and you are ready to send it back to the manufacturer. Why dont you send a sample of it to me. I would honestly like to know why everyone else is having so many problems with it while I still believe it is an excellent quality covering.
I agree. PM me and I will give my address. I would love to try a roll or a scrap of the 'garbage', and see what is up. Maybe I could enlighten you all, who knows?
Deadeye and davidgeorge212,
You're on
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PM me your addresses and I'll send three 8 1/2x11 swatches to each of you. One each, for putting on a piece of sheet stock, one for putting around a compound curve as in a wing tip, and one for putting over an open frame, like wing ribbing. I would certianly welcome any tips, advice or findings as to the user friendliness/quality of this current roll. My technique could be suffering from lack of use lately but, I remember this covering as being alot easier when I was a novice and doing my very first film covering jobs. More recently I've been doing resin/glass and paint finishes so it could well be that I'm just REALLY rusty at film covering. The self adhesive/trim pieces that I've used for small punture or tear repairs have been fine, it was just a bit disappointing on this latest major rebuild/repair where I'm having to redo a complete model.
I am quite interested to see how it (the MK) goes on for folks who have kept their film covering skills honed. Particularly how well it goes on sheeted surfaces, like a slab type fin/stab, without bubbling/blistering all over the place, and how well it shrinks and pulls over a curved open structure like a wing.
I'm never to proud to admit a mistake or to learn a better way...life's to short to stubbornly defend a faulty opinion, skill or attitude
(Maybe I could be enlightened, who knows?)