A local guy in our club, Bob Arata, has built a couple of models that he wanted a white base coat on, and took a novel approach that I want to try and may be expanded on. When he was doing the initial dope build ups, he added just a dash of unthinned white dope to the clear. I want to think it is almost like tinting the dope. As you put successive coats of dope on, the color builds up gradually, and by the time you are finshed, that airplane is mostly white already. Lightly sand in between coats as usual. It has a real dfferent look, almost kind of transparent. I would think if you wanted a really stark, almost appliance white finish, this would be a neat way to build up a base for the base coat. It would probably work for any color really. If I ever get my work situation squared away to where I have real time to build, I intend to try this on at least a sport model to get a feel of what it takes.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee