So, I haven't done an iron on finish in a very, very long time. This is going to be a dope and silkspan fuse with plastic on the flying surfaces. I did the control surfaces last night (flaps and elevator). It has been a very long time. Does transparent iron on shrink more than the opaque stuff? Seems that the surface was pretty loose with just the edges tacked down when I hit it with the heat gun. Then it was WHAM, tight as a drum. I was never very good with Monokote, but it seems harder than it used to be. Oh well, it will be what it is. I've seen Dirty Dan do some really nice Monokote finishes (a couple of time almost indistinguishable from paint). Clearly it's a developed skill. I suppose I'll get better at it as I go along. I hope so.

OK, new (and somewhat weird) question:

So I had this partial roll of what I thought was transparent yellow Monokote. I ordered some more from Tower and went ahead and covered the control surfaces. I get the roll today and it's not the same color. The stuff I have is a lot more of an orangey yellow (maybe chrome yellow?) and has some sort of glitter or something in it. The stuff from Tower is just yellow.

Could it be that the stuff I have is something else. Maybe pearl or metallic or something? It's definitely transparent, but is sort of, as I say, glittery.

I've had this roll a very, very long time. could it just be old? Or is there a transparent pearl yellow out there?

Any thoughts?

Ralph,

Well, after some research, I'm convinced that it's either a discontinued color or they've changed the color of the yellow. Wish I had more of the original stuff. It's kinda cool. Sigh...

I suspect I'll just finish out the plane and if the new stuff just looks too weird against the old stuff, I'll strip off the old stuff and recover the control surfaces with the new stuff.

Man, it's been a very long time since I did an iron on finish. I'm really out of practice.