Just saying hello, first post. Finishing an Explorer.
It's the water-resistant type. Everything is built, I'm painting now. Krylon primer seems to stick well after some light sanding with #320. It does take several coats and a few spraycans to defeat the brown paper. Will finish with a semi-gloss. Eventually, I'll probably get an airbrush so I can customize paintjobs, but I'll hold off until I after I discover how crashy I am.
I've been seeing on youtube, and reading here, that the wing tends to fold up if not flown gently. I used a tip given here and added carbon fiber arrow shafts to the wing structure. I worked out a process for doing this that made it fairly easy.
Does anyone happen to know if there is a way to unwrinkle the paper? I suspect not, but it would be neat if it turned out that there was some magic method, say, spraying on alcohol and hitting with a clothes iron while thinking good thoughts magically removed them or something.
It's the water-resistant type. Everything is built, I'm painting now. Krylon primer seems to stick well after some light sanding with #320. It does take several coats and a few spraycans to defeat the brown paper. Will finish with a semi-gloss. Eventually, I'll probably get an airbrush so I can customize paintjobs, but I'll hold off until I after I discover how crashy I am.
I've been seeing on youtube, and reading here, that the wing tends to fold up if not flown gently. I used a tip given here and added carbon fiber arrow shafts to the wing structure. I worked out a process for doing this that made it fairly easy.
Does anyone happen to know if there is a way to unwrinkle the paper? I suspect not, but it would be neat if it turned out that there was some magic method, say, spraying on alcohol and hitting with a clothes iron while thinking good thoughts magically removed them or something.