Did middleweight tissue cover job last night .
Atomiser bottle water on wing tissue , goes taut . Tailplane threw it on dry , then sprayed . Ten times the slack , damp .
Thus , it could vary . a coat or two of tautning / shrinking . At least on the open - tissue bays . BUT the starved horse leading edge sheeting
and uneven fuselage , from salubrious latherings , with the shrinking .
Still get visions in the minds eye of someones small scale rubber shrunk crocked deformed thing , from the youth .
Was a pre coloured all sheet Piper Cub available . No Dope required . Threw a slot car motor in & used it electric round the pole .
ON THE OTHER HAND , the P-51 covering , while smooth , is not tensioned on the open bays . Where I used Non Shrinking exclusivly .
Throwing multi coats of shrinking on anything in a short time , is likely the shrinkage will make a pgs breakfast of it tho ,
Im thinking one or two coats , of the six or eight , could be tautning . Pref just aimed at the open bay tissue areas .
CAPPING STRIPS im pre dopeing & block sanding with NON SHRINKING . With no bothers wotsoeva . Undoped as per olde pomme advice they stick out like a sore thumb .Even 1/8 or 3/32 ribs im using a pin striping brush , about five coats ,and a plank sand with 180 / 220/240 .
Spraying the first few coats , drish , so theyre not ' WET ' to avoid the covering pulling into around the rib edge . Seems entirely succesful so far .
Getting good tissue here in Aus. is somewhat of a swine these days .