08-29-2013, 04:26 PM
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Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by Bob H
Painting was recommended for the Fake Wulf and I painted mine in a German camo paint scheme and it flies really well.
That said, most of my gliders have either no paint or just a light dusting of color.
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Indeed--a Fake Wulf just isn't...well, fake--without that decor scheme. :-) Also:
Another option (especially for model airplane folks with various types of dope on hand, who might get into model rocketry by way of boost-gliders) could possibly be a variation of the "glider dope" (a 50/50 mixture of clear dope and dope thinner, applied to a boost-glider and sanded with No. 400 sandpaper or sanding film between coats, until the surfaces are very smooth) that G. Harry Stine described in his "Handbook of Model Rocketry." Now:
I have not tried this, but maybe glider dope made using *colored* dope and dope thinner (perhaps using, say, 75% colored dope and 25% dope thinner, to preserve the color "density") could also produce good results? (For myself, I'd just use spray paint like you did [particularly lacquer paint, on B/Gs with no plastic parts] because that's what I have on hand, but maybe model airplane folks could get equally good results with glider dope, without having to buy new and [to them] unfamiliar paints.) |