Covering
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- Coloring R/C Aircraft
- All R/C fliers have gotten that "I can't tell which way it's going" feeling when learning to fly R/C. Several simple color trimming steps can help you fly your airplane better, whether you are a beginner or top dog in Pattern.
- For the Solite Challenged
- An excellent 5-page article by Martin Hunter with lots of photos explaining exactly how to cover balsa structures with Solite film. This is applicable to any film covering.
- Advanced Covering Techniques with Solite
- Great Ezone howto showing how to make patterns and designs and apply them to your model.
- How to Do Curves - Smooth Air
- Using film covering on flat surfaces with curved shapes.
- Covering with Colours - Smooth Air
- Using different colours on the same part. Note: This is a 2-page article. the link at the bottom is not clear on this.
- Layering With Solite - Smooth Air
- Using multiple film layers for stunning effects.
- Name It
- An easy cheap way to get some lettering on your model. Warning: Yahoo popup.
- Flame the Plane
- How to draw and apply freehand designs to your covering.
- Which Covering- Dubai RC Hobbies
- A good short description of the commercial shrinkable film coverings available on the market.
- RCMicroFlight.com Covering with lightweight Mylar
- Five-micrometer Mylar film is the best covering for many RC micro aircraft. Here’s how to apply it to a balsa frame airplane. (Courtesy of the Wayback Machine)
- Model Airplane News - HOW TO: Work with light plastic film for micro flyers
- Covering a micro plane with stretch platic clingfilm (Reynolds wrap) works well and is very cheap. Here's how.
- Covering and Painting Weights
- A table and calculator for finding covering weights per area.
- E Zone: Covering foam with Silkspan or fiberglass, and Minwax Polycrylic
- Minwax Polycrylic may be a safer, viable substitute for epoxy resin when fiberglassing raw polystyrene foam.
- Bradley Walker's FM Finishing Article
- Getting a perfect finish on covered balsa takes some work. This in-depth article leads you through the process.
- Tissue over Mylar
- Applying tissue over mylar is lighter than using tissue and dope, as the dope adds a lot of weight. Here is a step-by-step guide to using this covering method.
- RC Groups - Doculam Discoveries!
- Document laminating film makes a hard, strong covering material.
- RCU Magazine How-To - How to Covering
- Some pretty good instructions here.