I would love to see an episode on painting planes. Mainly the different types of foams and how best to apply the paint as well as what type of paint works best.
Nice idea! For planes like the F22 (which I have build and destroyed 4 ), this would be great to pre-do 2 dollar tree panels first, lightly sand, no paint, build F-22 using those 2 dried panels., then re-coat and do final coats and painting.
Just rewatched this. You can also use thinned white glue, 2:1 glue to water. May be cheaper. After watching this, I would have used this method to cover my EPO foam turtle deck for the FT Racer, see my article on FT.
I have done a similar thing with some of my balsa planes but using PVA watered down which shrinks back to make a nice tight surface ready to be flatted and painted :)
I do almost this exact same method with a mix of elmers white glue, and water. It works great and gets very similar results, and may be cheaper than polycrilic.
I wasn't aware of the availability of craft paper. I knew the British have been covering planes with brown paper for decades but the stuff Peter uses seems really light. What are your thoughts of using it over Depron? Just thought of something. I'm drawing up a cartoon C-17 & Cessna Citation/Lear and now I'm thinking I might be able to apply the brown paper to the one side of the Depron while it is still flat and then roll the foam'paper into it's elliptical shape using the paper to force the foam into compression as opposed to it stretching. Do you think the paper would prevent it from rolling. The minimum radius would be somewhere around 1.5 inches/ 40 mm. Nice video. I have another fuselage which is a combination of light white foam block and Depron and I'm anxious to try this procedure on that. It should also work nicely on wire cut blue foam. It is 0552 in the morning so I guess there isn't any reason to go to bed. I think I'll get dressed and go to Walmart.
I haven't left for Walmart yet so I watched the video again and you recommended not to cover wings with the craft paper and so I'm wondering why? Again the video was very helpful for my new designs. Thanks
Obviously this is a good tip for the kits as they use paper covered foamboard. but if you use something like Depron, and make sure to fully glue every joint, there's no need to water proof it.
Nice. Now can you please educate us on waterproofing other parts? Like motor connections (is heatshrinking enough?), ESCs (remove heatshrink and dip in liquid electrical tape?) etc etc Thanks :)
I think I would have just laminated it in thin document laminating foil. I have most of my foamies covered in that stuff. It makes them very tough, and I'm sure if you are careful when applying it you can make it waterproof.
I contacted the manufacturer of this DTFB and they admit to using a less expensive glue, and they had no motivation for us RC people to upgrade the glue on this product, even after I explained the cost/benefit for this industry...
Well that's a great idea! I already have all these materials so guess I know what to do with it now... BIXLER.... Still waiting for the Ice bucket challenge, you have been called out brother!!!!
I was thinking the same thing. I just got a bixler v1.1 and I have a bixler 3 as well as a couple of foam large fpv wings. I just wasnt sure what kind of foam is in the foamboard vs the foam that the bixlers are made of. You know if it reacts or sticks a s well to that kind of foam.
I'm feeling a little uneasy about peeling the paper skin off of my flying wing to implement this method. I'm looking for a waterproofing method that I can apply to the paper side of the foam core.
Just did some testing using this method on the DTFB and the water based coating. It works BUT does not solve the number one issue with this foam board, adhesion. The original paper and this new technique still does NOT adhere to the foam. This is the biggest downfall of this foam. After a crash or hard landing, the foam separates from the paper and this causes structural weaknesses. I have found the only glue that really Sticks to this foam is foam safe instant glue, and to re-glue a whole sheet is not practical from a cost point of view.
***** Here in Australia you can get foam board but it is as expensive as Depron and Depron is a superior product for modelling. So yes, please do a Depron build guide. Also Depron versions of the plans would be good. I have built the FT Spitfire and the FT Baby Blender but they weren't easy because I had to modify the plans as I went.
Great idea +jakeEboy Building with depron videa would be awesome, in UK is cheaper than foam-board and "better" because the foamboard i can find is kinda cardboard backed rather than paper backed and destroys razor blades when cutting it :-(
One thing to note when building FT planes using Depron - I have found that the CG moves back a little bit so you might want to move some electronics like servos forward an inch or so.
Borko Jandras Wow! That's really cheap. Where is that? I buy it by the case (20 sheets) and it works out to about $11 per sheet. That's the cheapest I can find in Australia.
Its definitely possible. If you're going to use water based acrylic with glass, make sure you're using very light glass cloth or it'll weigh a lot more than the light paper used here. Another option is to use epoxy resin, and apply heat to it while applying. You can then squeegee out the excess with a credit card or similar until there's just enough left to hold it on securely. You could maybe apply glass with whatever resin, and no talc, then after that's cured, apply resin+talc powder over the top as a filler/sanding sealer to fill the small gaps in the cloth's weave that it leaves behind. hope this helps you with your idea!
A much easier way... is using pour on epoxy, that is used for glossing tables. Brush on thin layer. Get the slow dry kind. Its called... pour on.. and it is literally.... the absolute best thing ever. I built a foamy in 2006... that is still in same condition now as it was then. Put it on AFTER paint. You can paint it after coating it if you want it matte... but you would need to scuff it with sandpaper.
I do not see enough advantage in removing the paper just to put on a little better paper. My opinion is to leave the existing paper, use the oil based poly procedure on the entire airplane, then paint. The baby powder can still be used with oil based to get a smoother painting surface.
I recently got a fly sky fs- gr3e. Once it came in the mail I got it out and plugged my motor, servo, and power. She ran fine for about five minutes then, poof. Nothing! I felt the back of the receiver and it got incredibly hot. Now if I apply any power, nothing else, it starts to get hot. Can you help me?
foam melt whit polyurethan, but water base acryl paint can use. cheap and ewery shop have cheap acryl paint. most popular spray paint not can use melt foam.
Why not use corrugated plastic to make planes?They are a bit heavier than foam but you would not have to waterproof them.Also planes made out of them are almost indestructible.
Josh would it be posable to have you make a quad copter for my band because our band director wants to see it from the air and we have no way to see it outer ways. I think it would mean the world to him because we are a very well know band and we never have seen our filed show from the sky. If you could make this you will make a lot of people very happy.
Let's all fly Josh's yellow sub-airplane...yellow sub-airplane...yellow sub-airplane. Let's all fly Josh's yellow....errrrrip, hey who scratched their record........man I was hoping for a maiden kerplunck, I mean flight test. Maybe you could glue a couple of water noodles cut at an angle, and holes covered for floats.
use cheap acryl paint mix whit water 60/40 about and spray cover to plane,m have dry is same than plastic cover. all water base paint work well. but best methor have monocote cover film heat arounf plane. and then paint what want decoratives and text add stickers.
Peter is still new to FliteTest. Like David, I think we will see Peter develop more character in videos. I agree with Dano though. This is just a FliteTest video, but we watch it like Tool Time from the old show Home Improvement.
ThisIsThe123 A lot of us do. But it's time to move on. Who knows, some day Sweden will be assimilated by the US and David will be a US citizen who doesn't need a Visa to work in the US.
hey guys i want to buy a flite test plane and build it or buy one but i want one i can customize with bomb drops and stuff like that if you could get back to me that would be AWESOME thx and if you do can it be under $200 thx
Jack Simonson?pageId=101866118233328199374 You do know the Flite Test Store? store.flitetest.com You can get most planes featured in builds there and they have hints on electronics you need besides the basic frames.You can modify all scratch build planes for bomb drops and stuff. You just need to be a little creative ;). They've made a few videos where they show how to do bomb drops. @watch?v=EB91OtfcbPM
