Duck
Active member
All of my FT paint jobs so far have been pretty simple. I've tried it a couple different ways: painting each part a different color, colored tape, painting one side (leaving the other brown) or even simple painting the whole plane one color. My most recent build is the Simple Scout and I wanted to go a little nicer so I tried some basic white stripes on the wings. I was really happy with how it was turning out until I came to the last step of removing the blue painters tape I used to mask around the white stripe. It pulled up the red paint I had put on the rest of the wings. It looked like:
I was going to paint the tail white but I lost steam when it pulled so much paint from the wings. I maidened it anyway and it looks good in the air and the damage can't be seen while flying but I want to find a new technique for masking off sections. I want to go back and fix the red paint that was pulled up. But to do so, I need to mask over the white and I don't want to pull that up in the process.
What I did was:
* Prep the surface with sandpaper
* Take 2" blue painters tape and run it across my jeans to reduce stickyness
* Laid a strait line of tape with that
* Laid tape across the edge of newspaper and stick that down on top of the tape as a second layer to cover it for overspray
* Peeled it up as carefully as possible to prevent peeling the paint at the edge of the tape
What happened was that the paint adhered to the tape even though I tried to make it less sticky. While the edge didn't do too much damage, in some places the tape ripped up all the paint under the entire width of the tape. You can see that on the left wing in the picture. The brown is the width of the 2" tape.
How does everyone else mask designs? If you use tape, what tape do you use and do you do any prep to the tape to reduce paint peeling?
I was going to paint the tail white but I lost steam when it pulled so much paint from the wings. I maidened it anyway and it looks good in the air and the damage can't be seen while flying but I want to find a new technique for masking off sections. I want to go back and fix the red paint that was pulled up. But to do so, I need to mask over the white and I don't want to pull that up in the process.
What I did was:
* Prep the surface with sandpaper
* Take 2" blue painters tape and run it across my jeans to reduce stickyness
* Laid a strait line of tape with that
* Laid tape across the edge of newspaper and stick that down on top of the tape as a second layer to cover it for overspray
* Peeled it up as carefully as possible to prevent peeling the paint at the edge of the tape
What happened was that the paint adhered to the tape even though I tried to make it less sticky. While the edge didn't do too much damage, in some places the tape ripped up all the paint under the entire width of the tape. You can see that on the left wing in the picture. The brown is the width of the 2" tape.
How does everyone else mask designs? If you use tape, what tape do you use and do you do any prep to the tape to reduce paint peeling?