How to Cover a Model airplane with Covering Film 

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Love the presentation, the visuals, and the general tone of the video. Works perfectly, nice and short with nothing to waste time.

Been postponing my Balsa model because i've been unsure how to cover it. Thanks for this!

Thank you for keeping this alive and that is one sweet cub!

Thank you! I've always been curious.

If its small enough you can shrink it by sticking it in the oven door with the oven on about 200' F ....dont put it in the oven just let it get hot then open the door and hold your covered surface in the heat...my gun broke halfway through and i was desperate lol...but it worked!

Straightforward simple,thanks

That's cool been wondering about this

If you have a plane that can take a little more weight, like the sharkface, Oratex is the best option because it is easy to work with and feels more like fabric. It would be cool if you could stock oratex in the other colors or lozengtex is 1-2m rolls for the smaller planes that don't need 5m rolls for tge WWI german cammo schemes🙂

Aún recuerdo cuando se entelaba los aeromodelos con barniz tensor Novavia y papel de seda. Un saludo.

I thought the voice and editing style seemed familiar! ProjectAir! Great content, keep it up.

Would have like to see you do the bottom too. Treatment and placement of the exposed covering edge specifically.

On every wing that I have covered I have used a single sheet wrapped around the leading edge and joining at the trailing edge. This is generally not recommended but I prefer to do it that way and have ever had any problems. Do you have any thoughts on this?

Of all the building videos, not one until now ever mentioned adhesive on the back side of the covering. I guess they assume youd know. Thanks for pointing that out.

Nice Cub, do you have a model with flap STOL type? thanks

2-part question: 1) do you iron the spurs as well and the middle of the wing or only iron the edges? 2) this is my first time with solarfilm and I have quite a few wrinkles. Is this okay or do I need to redo it to try to get it straight?

Does it works on plastic airfoil rib

From where to get that heat blow gun u used

Hello, I do ruber powered models Guillows style, I would like to know which heat shinking covering I should use on this small models, I have no experience with anything other than paper and dope which if fine exept here where I live it rains 300 days a year so my model has to stand wet grass... Any advice will be gratly appreciated. Cheers from Normandy.

show us how to do wing edges. Thanks

Does anyone know if that stuff can be painted?

Oracover is EXTREMELY expensive for certain countries with weak currencies. Could you recommend a replacement?

What about the underside of the wing? How do you address the seam between the upper and lower covering sheets? Your video is woefully incomplete.

Awesome, dude! Thanks! 😃

Useful

What is with the edges, does the oracover overlap and gets folded under? what is with elevator and rudder pannels, especially the hinges? What is with the fuselage, or the nose of a plane, sor example a sailplane? That would be a video what deserves the title how to cover!

I prefer using MonoKote . I also dont stretch it . But I pull the wrinkles out as I tack the covering down . There are some hard places like the arounded corner at the leading edge and on compound curves . Those areas takes a lot of time and preplaining ahead of time to get it right . This guy leaves to many wrinkles for me .

Is that project air I hear?

What's the name of the airplane you're covering in this video? I'd be inerested in ordering it.

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Yeah, obviously. Lol. Am wondering about trimming the extra and overlapping the other side? ...the only part you didn't explain. Lol

You should stretch the material as you tack it. Makes for a better job. Here's the expert technique : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XtMbYxEqgiw.html

Bottom should be covered first, you should not start shrinking until all of wing is covered because you could warp the structure

you forgot to explain dealing with the extra hanging off the edge?

I've done this but mine are a bit messier than this.

I spy ailerons!!!!

Wear a mask when sanding and ideally do it outside - because balsa dust is really nasty to inhale and can lead to lung infections and problems. I’ve now got a proper film iron and gun but when I started out on a budget I used an ordinary clothes iron and a hairdryer - bit bulky, not as convenient, but worked fine. All the models that I built in the 90s using SolarFilm were covered that way. Off course back then covering a model plane was as cheap as chips, these days you need to take out a second-mortgage to buy film - in fact the film (especially if using OraCover) could cost more than the proper film gun and iron. Not just the cost of film, but balsa is incredibly expensive these days. Building from kits used to be the cheaper option, building from plans was even cheaper. Now I shudder at the prices. It really is killing off traditionally build models and reinforcing the dominance of foam. Not sure whether this is urban myth, but I heard that one of the primary reasons that balsa prices have shot up is that balsa is used in the core of wind turbine blades and that is creating a huge demand for balsa which is driving up the price.

Two thing's, 1 that cover job looks like a first time fourth graders attempt 2, a hair dryer will not work for covering it's not hot enough!

Don't use a hair dryer, your wife will kick your a**...Just kidding. It's not hot enough and your left with wrinkles, then you grab your heat gun anyway or you might not have a heat gun. Now your plane looks like your shirts if your single and don't know how to wash your clothes. And you have to buy or borrow one. Just buy a heat gun.

👎👎Barely touches the highlights of covering…sparse to the point of…well…pointless.