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Guys , I had alot of great responses on the 3D AMERICAN FLAG thread, I thought I'd share another covering technique. I call this "flowing checkerboard", kinda makes it look like its moveing.
The plane is a Morris Hobbies "Spinsation". the covering is Black Baron ....black and white ultracote. I used heat to iron the white down cause it dont lay down with Windex like good ol monokote.
pic #1 shows the black already in place

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pic #2 shows white ultracote with a sqaure drawn on it...this is done free hand, cut out and stuck on the plane, dont matter where you stick it on the black, but I like to go kinda tight up against the fuse

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pic#3 shows said sqaure placed on with heat, into its position

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in pic #4, I take a larger peice of white covering, drape it onto the wing and let it overlap onto the 1st white sq. you can easily see the edges of the white square throught the larger peice of white. so know just draw another sq onto the larger peice of covering, that touches the 1st sqaure

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pic#5 shows the 2nd sq ironed in place

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pic 6 shows how I kept the size of the 3rd sq roughly the same size as the 1st sq. ,the orange arrows show the location of the 3rd sq

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here is the sqare drawn, in its postion ready to be cut out, then stuck down

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and now sq#3 is in place

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the rest of the process is repeat the previous steps. In this pic you see the larger peice of white covering overlaying the checkerboard, the orange line shows how you keep everything in line with the 1st few sq's you put down, it also shows the black dotted outline of the next white sq

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hers the final product. the PRO BRO lettering is made of white Black Baron film stuck on with windex, its outlined with black ultracote, that is ironed on. the font is called "wizard", I got it out of a program called "paintshop pro". I sized them in the program, printed them on my printer, cut them out and traced them onto the white BB film. the black shadows were made by takening the letter cutouts, turning them over backwards and then traced just where you want the shadow to be on the back of the black ultracote, you have to have the letters backwards when you trace on the back of ultracote so them come out frontwards when you turn the ultracote over....enjoy........Gator

wgeffon

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Damn Gator!

You piss me off!

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Wait till you see the top.....it should put me #1 on your hit list ...Gator

wgeffon

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You going to cover my 35% Carden for me?

Seriously though,
I am trying to decide on a scheme for it and am drawing a blank.
Any suggestions? Its a 35% Extra.

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yes, you ever seen that TOYOTA extra?......if not let me know and I'll try and find a pic for you....you could do your like that, but change the color, or maybe I can draw you up something....G

nashtm

Thanks Gator

If you have time could you explain how you did the silver
"tears" with the checkers showing thru.

thanks
Tim

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sure Tim
the tear away was made with ultracote black and white 1" sq covering. What I did, was just randomly free - hand a patch of the checkerboard ultacote. Then before I pulled the backing off. I layed it down ontop of some silver and outlined the checkerboard onto the silverso I would have the same shape. With a felt-tip pen, I would draw the jagged edges outside the contour that I traced on the silver. Intsead of cutting the line I traced, I came inside that line by an 1/8", so that it would overlap onto the checkerboard. I will post some pic of the top of it when I'm done. I started a thread in the FF forum called Morris Spinsation and I'll put some pic there....G

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anybody that has that much time to cover an airplane should be workin or flyin - geez louise
color me green

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Tom....The checkerboard like this only takes maybe a couple hrs on a and area the size of this spinsation...the PRO BRO stuff ....I dunno...maybe a little longer because of the shadow.......I am hated by my wife and kids, they think I'm the "upstairs guy".......Gator

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jeez im jealous,

looks great thanks for posting your ideas, helps me to plan covering for my next project.

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Damn you Gator! I've been telling everyone that your 3D flag was just a "fluke". That you were a one-hit wonder! And now this! (Just kidding, of course!)

You need to write a covering book. Good job!

Mike

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UnBfreakinglieveable! Faye Stilley - move over.

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Just like American Idol - I give this thread 5 stars.

vasek

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gator you devil, show us everything you know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

even if it takes 1 zilion posts!

if you start a fan club, put me in it ! i'll show up in here every

tuesday evening for lessons.

egor

Gator:

With you flag thread and this one you've made an old fart open his eyes.

I looked at this and I said to myself, self this little sucker is sumpin else wonder if I could do sumpin like that, them old fart's over at the field would go pee pee in their pantys.

pretty great lookin stuff your do'in keep up the good work and most of all thanks for sharin.

egor

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Thanks guys(head getting BIG)....anytime I get a idea, I'll try and do something like this......G