Man am I getting experience from this first build. I finally am almost done covering . Well I covered the fuse , wings , vertical and horizontal stabs. I used ultracote smoke purple and ultracote orange. Well I ran out of covering because of a few mistakes I made and had to rip it off and start over on some parts. However now I think I have it down pretty good. Well I break out my new roll of smoke purple and all is great. However when I break out the orange it ends up looking to have a little more red to it and is semi transparent. So I was confused, looked at the packaging on both oranges. Ugh, didn't notice , but the orange I bought the first time was carl goldberg ultracote. The second roll is hanger 9 ultracote. Luckily I only have the elevator, rudder and ailerons to cover so I don't think it will look too bad. But mistakes like this are all experience to me which in my eyes experience turns into knowledge and knowledge is priceless!

Sometimes two different rolls of the same cover can have slightly different shading, especially if you leave them on a shelf near a window for some time before you decide to cover a plane with them. I've learned to cover all of my top side surfaces first, so if I need to use a slightly different color on the bottom, no one can tell.

Good for you, Crazynick. Building your first plane can be a challenge for many but also rewarding. You probably learned alot on your own and made a bobo or two but thats normal. As you may have found out by now R.C.U. has a wealth of information that like you said, priceless, and there is no substute for knowledge. I really enjoy seeing you making the step up to building, we need alot more new builders here to keep things alive. Hope it flyes great[8D] Leroy