JeffK813
Sep 17, 2007, 10:05 AM
Hi all,
Back in the day when I began my R/C flying "career", I disregarded the wisdom of the elders and bought a 40-sized Stick (A Thunder Tiger, Tiger Stick) as my first airplane. I crashed it quite spectacularly after only two flights. After that, one of the club members graciously offered to repair it for me (which consisted of rebuilding the fuse from the firewall to the wing, and reassembling 30% of the wing) and while he was doing so, I bought a proper trainer.
Before really learning to fly, and after a 7 year hiatus (life happens), I returned to the hobby, broke out the trainer and properly learned to fly. Now, as I'm getting more experience, I thought I'd get the old Stick back in the air, but when I pulled it out of storage, it was a bit worse for wear. So.... I've stripped the old patched-together covering off of it (I never liked the ARF blue and white color schenme anyway) and am basically refitting the entire plane (new engine, receiver, servos etc...).
I'm new to covering. I've recovered some things, including the complete wing on my old .40 trainer (which suffered hangar rash) and had excellent results. However, it's kinda bland, white on top, blue on the bottom.
For my Stick, I want to recover it in the traditional Ugly Sitk scheme of red, with white stripes and Maltese crosses in the white. My question is, what's the best way to do this? Is there a tutorial I can follow that will help? I'm assuming that for best results I should trim the red and piece it together with the white, but how? Also, how would the crosses be applied? Heat? Adhesive?
I will be using Ultracote and have already purchased two rolls of red, one of white and a 5"x36" piece of black trim.
Any pointers or references would be a great help. I want to do this right!
Thanks!
Back in the day when I began my R/C flying "career", I disregarded the wisdom of the elders and bought a 40-sized Stick (A Thunder Tiger, Tiger Stick) as my first airplane. I crashed it quite spectacularly after only two flights. After that, one of the club members graciously offered to repair it for me (which consisted of rebuilding the fuse from the firewall to the wing, and reassembling 30% of the wing) and while he was doing so, I bought a proper trainer.
Before really learning to fly, and after a 7 year hiatus (life happens), I returned to the hobby, broke out the trainer and properly learned to fly. Now, as I'm getting more experience, I thought I'd get the old Stick back in the air, but when I pulled it out of storage, it was a bit worse for wear. So.... I've stripped the old patched-together covering off of it (I never liked the ARF blue and white color schenme anyway) and am basically refitting the entire plane (new engine, receiver, servos etc...).
I'm new to covering. I've recovered some things, including the complete wing on my old .40 trainer (which suffered hangar rash) and had excellent results. However, it's kinda bland, white on top, blue on the bottom.
For my Stick, I want to recover it in the traditional Ugly Sitk scheme of red, with white stripes and Maltese crosses in the white. My question is, what's the best way to do this? Is there a tutorial I can follow that will help? I'm assuming that for best results I should trim the red and piece it together with the white, but how? Also, how would the crosses be applied? Heat? Adhesive?
I will be using Ultracote and have already purchased two rolls of red, one of white and a 5"x36" piece of black trim.
Any pointers or references would be a great help. I want to do this right!
Thanks!