jross
Well-known member
I started building last December. Because my shop is unheated and my wife wouldn't allow painting in the house, I bought a bunch of colourful packing tape. I bought it for colour but love how it holds my planes together when I do things like run into a fence made of railway ties. First flights ever and on a Tiny Trainer. Clipped a tree top cruising as fast as you can on an A Pack and you could hardly see where it contacted the wing. I was amazed. Same with my Explorer and Mini Arrow. Both would be long dead were it not for packing tape over the entire plane. They all still fly well. Needed a new fuselage on the Trainer after many hard hits. Could stand to rebuild the nose on my Explorer but even though the foam is mush underneath, the tape holds it together well enough I'm not building another nose. It's not critical to flight. The nose on the Arrow is mush too.
I love adding tape to my planes for strength. But it's a bit limiting in terms of getting too creative with colours and visual designs. My questions. Can you paint over packing tape? Will the paint fall off? Is there a particular type of paint that works best?
Temperature's finally warm enough I can paint in the shop. Our local club is having a Float Fly event in about 3 weeks and I want to build an Otter and Simple Cub on floats. Wanna make them look cool. By cool I mean slightly better than I can do with coloured tape.
I love adding tape to my planes for strength. But it's a bit limiting in terms of getting too creative with colours and visual designs. My questions. Can you paint over packing tape? Will the paint fall off? Is there a particular type of paint that works best?
Temperature's finally warm enough I can paint in the shop. Our local club is having a Float Fly event in about 3 weeks and I want to build an Otter and Simple Cub on floats. Wanna make them look cool. By cool I mean slightly better than I can do with coloured tape.