I try various techniques to finish vintage combat wings for Combat Graffiti. Once I bought some "dress lining" from a local fabric store here, but never go around to trying it as it seemed thick to me. I have a voodoo that got smacked by a buddy and it used to be covered with super monokote. When I finally got all of that stuff off and the wing prepped, I tried the lining on it. I was sceptical even after I had it all doped on. I used glue to hold it to the wingtips along with pins and applied it dry in a single wrap on the inboard and outboard sides instead of 4 panels. I then shrank it with water to take out any small wrinkles. After the first coat of nitrate, I was sure this was a mistake, it looked like a fuzzy slipper. I sanded the wing with light sandpaper and it smoothed out. I had a pooch at the tips where I had slit the covering and overlapped the covering right at the start of the wingtip. It sanded out nicely so I put another coat on and sanded that. By the end of the 3rd coat it was looking pretty nice, like old days silkspan, so I shot it with buyterate and the look was very nice and not fragile like silkspan at all.
This was a "medium" thickness material, as I thought the thin was too weak by pulling it until it began to separate. I bought 6 ft for 2.50 or so. I'm currently building a James Mears "Raunchy" and will cover it with the same.
K