This works...

I am now finishing my 78.5% Impact in MonoKote. As those with experience know, ya gotta do the fiddly stuff first. And with a flapped Pukey Profile there are all kinds of bits and pieces around which one has to work, a lot of this stuff being indoors on a full-bodied model.

A particularly challenging area to cover was where the flap bearings attach to the trailing edge of the wing, ditto back at the horizontal stabilizer.

Ah, but I was able to snip and trim and shape one piece of MonoKote such that it would cover nicely over the offending pieces left or right, up or down.

But then I had to make three more pieces exactly the same. I am not good at that; I could barely come up with just one piece. What to do?

Simple. I laid down a scrap piece of 1/64" ply and ironed the one to-spec piece of film to the wood. A bit of trimming and I had a master. Which I then used to create four identical pieces of covering.

Dan

Even simpler would be to use Monokote hinges! Quick, easy, and automatically seals the hinge line. No taping!

monocote hinges,yup.No brainer,duh.

Say what?! The application is not hinges. Instead it is the coming together of the fillets between wing and fuselage, specifically at the trailing edge of the wing where life gets complicated with flap horn bushings being placed outdoors.

Possibly I could have made this more clear but I am covering both the wing and the fuselage with MonoKote and while normally covering fillets is not much of a challenge, it can be on a Pukey Profile.

Dan

Oops! Sorry DD, I did misread your first post. Mea culpa maxima!

Keep in mind, Dan is an "All Monokote, all the time" type of guy. That's all surfaces (and he's a master at it).

so DD when are we gonna see the new shrink dryed shrink wrapped Impact? looking forward to seeing how she turns out, I have no doubt it will be a nice plane for you

I never had much luck with manure cote on fuselages. I can barely manage it on wingtips. I paint the fuselage and cote the wings.

>I never had much luck with manure cote on fuselages. I can
>barely manage it on wingtips. I paint the fuselage and cote
>the wings.

I would not dare try to convince anyone to cover an entire airframe--profile or full-bodied--in MonoKote, but it's really not all that diffficult. As with wing tips, two of the big tricks are learning to use a heat gun properly and recognizing that heat from the gun can not only be used to stretch the material around a curved surface it can also be used to shrink the material prior attachment to said surface.

Yes, it takes some practice...

Dan

>so DD when are we gonna see the new shrink dryed shrink
>wrapped Impact? looking forward to seeing how she turns out, I
>have no doubt it will be a nice plane for you

Hoping to have the model's competitive debut in McMinnville. Which means first flights next weekend, assuming all goes well. And as I am now down to big and flat surfaces things should move right along.

Got a couple tricks for the model but I'm not blabbing until I see where the balance point ends up and a mock-up of what I think might be an original use of MonoKote-over-MonoKote trim.

Were I not in Canada at the moment, participating in another terrific contest--where are you, incidentally?--the model might well be finished and being bolted together.

Dan

well i have a list of excuses why i am not in Canada for the contest,, most important, no passport , no fancy new Washington drivers license,, heck not even sure I have a certified birth certificate,, something about having been hatched according to my dad,, anyway, its been a challenging summer with family and such. I will however be in Mcminnville to be sure,, hoping to have Jessica there to replicate her first solo flights last year.