Jeepindog

Anyone who has used any of the various colors and/or brands of clear or transparent coverings that has some advice or recommendations about certain brands, please tell me! I am about to cover a little Uproar and I want to use trans blue and trans yellow. Maybe I'll just go with solid blue and yellow... Thanks for any help.

Lachlan

Tall Paul

Transparents a just a tad lighter than opaque.
Nelson "lite film" is about as light as it gets.. but a bit irritating to work with.

bhole74

I use transparent Monokote all the time and love it, I especially like the red.

Josey Wales

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Only thing to watch for is when you make a seam it will be darker than a single layer of covering so just plan ahead

daven

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Redrum,

Love the colors, those are very similar to my racing colors.

It looks great!

FHHuber

My experience has been that the MonoKote transparents seem heavire and stiffer than the opaques. I have covered several large sailplanes in transparangts partly for the increased rigidity that was given to the wings, partly for the spectacular appearance of a multi-color, transparent sailplane in a blue sky.

GrnBrt

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I love the transparent coverings. A retired doctor I know is still flying a plane I built and covered with monokote in '82 and it has held up fine.

J_R

Run a Google search. Transparents weigh less than opaques in virtually any covering film.

Here is one fairly typical example when I ran "monokote weights" on Google

http://www.fatlion.com/sailplanes/weights.html

FHHuber

LOL not even the website belives the table it posted.

Bob Yeager

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Another Vote for Transparent Monokote! This is my Joe Bridi Chaos .40, my first attempt at Transparent Monokote. Please excuse the poor job of posing the photograph, but I am not hauling it outside in this snowstorm. I love Wyoming, but sometimes.......................! [:@]

SST

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The look is spectacular when the sun is shining through it, but just be sure your structure is good looking enough to stand the scrutiny, as the transparent film draws attention on the ground...

Gollywock

I've used xparent Monokote on a few models with very good results, but recently I discovered Ultracoat 'Lite'. I found it to be somewhat lighter and a good bit easier to apply than Monokote. It's available only in transparent colors. Jim

Tall Paul

Bookmark this site..
Component weights galore!
http://www.cox-internet.com/donramse...Components.htm

Jeepindog

Thanks for all the replies. I'm really not that concerned about weight here. (Not too sure how or why that even came up in a lot of the posts...) I am more concerned with how it covers, ie. as easy as regular Monokote, really hard to deal with, melts holes at low temps, etc. I bought trans blue and solid yellow. Should look great together if I can keep the wrinkles out! Maybe I'll do the tail feathers in the blue, the fuse in yellow, and the wings in blue with yellow trim on top for orientation.

LM

bojangle

I used to use lots of transparent on stick built planes, but for the solid structure I prefer opaque. I never tried a combination of both so can't say how that would look. In the air, trans looks great. Up close all the laps, mistakes, knots, fillers all show. I have trouble with orientation with trans, but that's mostly old age. My favorite colors are blue/yellow or red/white with black trim. (See my Sportster thread in "Kit Building")

I live on a ranch, lots of air space. Ever coming this way, buzz me.

To Bob Y from Wyoming, keep your wind up there, it's messing up my flying days lol.

BO

Ernest-T

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One thing to keep in mind when covering with transparent blue + transparent yellow = green seams wherever the two colors overlap. It will also look green if you are looking through a yellow covered surface to a blue colored surface on the other side (i.e. yellow on bottom of wing and blue on top will appear green from the bottom). This effect isn't as apparent when looking from the dark side (i.e. from the blue to the yellow). I learned this from experience:

Jim Finn

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I have used transparent Ultracoat lite and love it. A nice touch is to paint the balsa frame with floresent spray paint from Walmart before covering.

Jeepindog

Yeah, that's why I bought opaque yellow and trans blue! I was thinking about doing the same thing to the wing that you did. Yellow top leading edge sheeting, trans blue from top spar to trailing edge and also trans blue ailerons. Thanks for the pic.

Lachlan