While this will prove a little awkward there are pictures of some of my models on the excellent Flying Lines site. Many thanks to Mr. John Thompson, ever the effective promoter of CL flying here in the NW.
Go here:
http://flyinglines.org/planes.0909.htmlAnd here:
http://flyinglines.org/planes.10.08.htmlIn light of the context of this discussion all models discussed feature not a lick of paint: it's
all film. That's not a brag as I am merely too stupid to mix materials during finishing. Besides, once one settles on a concept why not do as we all do, taking a good idea to sometimes silly extremes?
In each case you must scroll down. In the first the 4th picture is
Smoothie on Steroids, finished in Micafilm and MonoKote. More to the point in this discussion all the graphics were cut from MonoKote, applied using the "Windex Method" even if that is a poor way of referring to it.
The 5th picture shows my plus-10% (or so)
Flite Streak which only looks like a FS, most of the tricks described in caption. Base film is white UltraCote. It seems important to note that the blue and red MonoKote is the transparent variety, not the more common opaque. Applied over white this makes the transparent colors "pop," although this is subjective. And it makes the stars in field of blue quite easily accomplished.
In second set of pictures is my first
Wimpact, now "damaged" as Howard would say, 5th & 6th pictures from top. (Not the best of photos in that the colors are not true for some reason.)
Again, no paint. Worth noting is that my AMA numbers and "
Wimpact" cut from black MonoKote and then overlaid with transparent MonoKote.
Also of possible interest is that "Bad Boy Stunt" logo was indeed hand-cut by myself even if such is at the upper limit of my patience. It was only through Steve coming across a technique for this that I was able to get through it. But the real message is that even something like this is possible
and if nailed down by the use of Trim Solvent it will stay put through constant cleaning.
Wing is foam sheeted with .050" balsa; no open bays. Horizontal stab is foam, sheeted with 8-pound 1/32" balsa. Fuselage has foam core, again sheeted, in this case with 8-pound 1/16" balsa.
The
W500, not pictured, is a 500-inch version of the basic
Wimpact design, in itself a mere rip-off of Paul's
Impact, this done by simply scaling down this excellent PA model. But y'all got me talking and so I would like to note that when starting on
W500 I enlisted the help of Derek Moran. He came up with a superb fuselage design based upon the use of SpiderFoam for the core and with balsa sheeting.
Dan