Stomp on a pop can lengthwise. Now you have a double insulated iron rest. You can get creative with your pop can squishing and make a ridge to keep the shoe suspended. Helped my father refabric his Cessna 120 wings in the car garage. What an experience. I still have his alligator teeth scissors, for strain relieving the fabric around the round edges and where the ends would meet, and for reinforcing fabric around the strut mounts He passed out in the garage from the dope fumes. Mom grabbed him. He learned his respirator lesson. Thanks for the vid Brent. Getting ready to cover a CG Shoestring Stunter.
We added baby powder to dope to seal the wood pores and to fill the weave on silk/silkspan...when sanding ,you are sanding the powder not the covering/wood..
Thanks for sharing the video. I covered a couple of Herr 1/2a kits with Polyspan a few years ago it was a bit challenging at first but turned out great. Can you list a source for it? Thanks
The way to attach the wing tips in the video was very helpful. In particular, I would like to incorporate the method of pasting using both paint and iron into future aircraft production. Regarding polyspan, it is a fabric that is not very familiar in Japan, but is it something like silk?
@@topbrent Interesting. What advantages do you see over the many plastic shrink coverings since it must be both glued down and then painted and the plastic coverings require neither.
@@ramtek2702 The quality and longevity of the finish is why control line guys especially like it. Film finishes are attractive and fast, but for the highest level paint work, silkspan or poly span will yield the best results.
@@topbrent I'm 78 years old and have crashed more planes than I can count. Investing time in a finish because it lasts longer is a losing proposition. I love building but I hate painting.
Thank you for putting this content out there. Always helpfull to see other modelers sharing their skills.
Stomp on a pop can lengthwise. Now you have a double insulated iron rest. You can get creative with your pop can squishing and make a ridge to keep the shoe suspended. Helped my father refabric his Cessna 120 wings in the car garage. What an experience. I still have his alligator teeth scissors, for strain relieving the fabric around the round edges and where the ends would meet, and for reinforcing fabric around the strut mounts He passed out in the garage from the dope fumes. Mom grabbed him. He learned his respirator lesson. Thanks for the vid Brent. Getting ready to cover a CG Shoestring Stunter.
It's fun to watch and listen to a room full of opinions!
Glad you made this vid.......it's helped me greatly. Thanks
This is great stuff!!! Far better than my polyspan skills!
Merci de partager vos connaissances, elles sont très utiles. 😊👍
We added baby powder to dope to seal the wood pores and to fill the weave on silk/silkspan...when sanding ,you are sanding the powder not the covering/wood..
very valuable
Hi Brent andbGordy ,Craig Beswick and me have just orded some so wont be long now .
Thanks for sharing the video. I covered a couple of Herr 1/2a kits with Polyspan a few years ago it was a bit challenging at first but turned out great. Can you list a source for it? Thanks
The way to attach the wing tips in the video was very helpful. In particular, I would like to incorporate the method of pasting using both paint and iron into future aircraft production. Regarding polyspan, it is a fabric that is not very familiar in Japan, but is it something like silk?
I used to wet Silkspan with a spray bottle and get it to lay down
Modern Silkspan?
I always did the bottom of the wing first
Did he really say “siney shide”?
Better than saying sinew
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Polyspan looks a lot like silkspan.
Yes. Polyspan is a non-woven lightweight fabric. Very nice stuff and tougher than paper silkspan.
@@topbrent Interesting. What advantages do you see over the many plastic shrink coverings since it must be both glued down and then painted and the plastic coverings require neither.
@@ramtek2702 The quality and longevity of the finish is why control line guys especially like it. Film finishes are attractive and fast, but for the highest level paint work, silkspan or poly span will yield the best results.
@@topbrent I'm 78 years old and have crashed more planes than I can count. Investing time in a finish because it lasts longer is a losing proposition. I love building but I hate painting.
Spray bottle with water
Too bad they don't make Econocote no more
Balsa filler coat
3-4 coats of dope.
Yup, built lots like that in the 70's and early 80's. Fabriccoat came out in the early 80's...silk span is a forgotten art.
What did I know
Monokote is too heavy
I used to wet Silkspan with a spray bottle and get it to lay down