helicopter34
Veteran
Location: New Jersey, exit 82
| Let me tell you a story about how I suck at painting.
I had everything planned: I sanded my canopy and fins down with 400 and 600 wetsand, 2 nice coats of adhession promoter, then 2 coats of sandable primer, and sanded, then two great coats of black plastikote spray can. I did all the same with the tail fins. First big screw up, on the windshield, using a heat gun to up the speed of the process, one of the edges shrinks a littlle and crinckles a little. Not that big of a problem, sanded at a little repainted, doesn't look that bad. Im planning on using this flourescent spray paint, I guess it must be for spraying your lawn to mark it or something, cause it goes on like crap. Well my plan was to make some checkers. I put tape on everything, draw the checkers in, cut them out wiht a razor blade, cutting little squares of paint out. The paint is pealing everywhere I am cutting. I figured at first it was because I didn't let it dry long enough, so stupid me tries it on the tail fin. I painted two different sets of tail and rudder fins. Now I completely ruined this one pair and had to resand and reprime and repaint. Right now I am at the point where I'm waiting for the crappy flouro paint to dry on the canopy before I take the tape off and access the damage. I guess this won't be a perfect canopy. |
the hair dryer gave it a little tight fit on the heli) and I noticed some black dripped on it and I had to resand it and I ran out of grey, so I bought some blue, trimmed off areas of grey strips that look like the frame of an apache window or something with blue in the middle.
