Does anyone know of any good links that descibes covering techniques. Ive been having trouble with it for years. Just never took the time to learn to do it. Now I kinda have to. Thanks Guys!!

I just searched Towerhobbies.com and found Harry Higley's "Tom's Techniques". Should be available at your LHS or they can order it for you.

Note from the Tech Department:
Tom's Techniques written by Tom Ingram.
Tom is a Two Time Best Monokote Finish Winner at Toledo.

FEATURES: With Help from Harry Higley, Tom will Help you Achieve an Eye Catching Covering Job. Learn about Covering Wings, Fuselages, Horner Wingtips, Fillets, and Many Other Shapes.

Hundreds of Photographs Show you How to Give Your Model a Winning Covering Job.


John

RC Havoc,
I purchase the video (MONOKOTE "Secrets of Great covering with Top Flight Monokote") thru Tower hobbies, it helps to see someone doing it and to see some tips. It was $15.00.

Good Luck,

Pat

Thanks Guys...

Here's something that can get you started:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/reviews.ph...ew&reviewid=67

Trimming skills also make a huge diff to the covering quality and reliability. Higley's trimmer is a real help when it comes to trimming the covering to get consistent overlaps. And it uses cheap razor blades. I use freehand with in some areas like curves. Be careful when you cut covering over covering as you don't want to cut thru the bottom one. Put a thin acetate paper or equivalent under the covering. You could also press a razor blade on the cut line, and slowly pull the scrap piece towards the blade but this method means you have to cut in short blade-width segments until the end of the cut line. This useful method is described in Higley's book. I am not marketing for him but I found it useful. Another issue is whether to iron down the whole covering surface where you will end up with an orange peel texture, or to tack down only the edges and shrink the surface so that you get a smooth surface. I ended up ironing down the whole surface because I find less or no wrinkles form after some time, and it doesn't put so much stress on the seams (I have a phobia of seams failing, what a mess !!!). I think monokote's video advocates this method as against Higley and Stilley. Besides the rougher surface is supposed to be aerodynamically better according to CPLR who used brown paper in his models.