I am in the middle of priming and painting the plane. It is my first attempt at such a paint job. I have found no matter how perfect you can get the primer and paint that the taping/glue is a show through. They recommend that you use masking tape to get your straight lines on your covering tapes for glueing. I did that and got some really good results on lineage. The problem came when removing the masking tape the glue left some pretty dominant lines. I thought this would be covered with primer/paint. It shows. I covered the wing WITHOUT masking tape and just did a pencil line to keep the tape straight. Brushed the glue with NO lines showing. This covered MUCH better with NO seeing the glue line. Just some advice from a novice. 8)
Dennis
Friendly Advice on Taping From a Novice
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Friendly Advice on Taping From a Novice
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Another tidbit I learned from Troy. Before covering the wings put some medical tape over the false ribs. It is smooth and protects very well. Works great.
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another thing from a novice
I used a piece of lexan to draw my tape lines. Ran a sheet through a friends table saw - 1 inch, 2 inch and 3 inch - then put marks at the half way point with a sharpie. Line the sharpie marks up with the center of the tube I am taping over - two pencil lines down both sides and 'viola'. It worked pretty well.
probably old news, but fwiw.
Kevin
probably old news, but fwiw.
Kevin