I found an older description with some more details if you are interested... It was originaly posted on HPA.
Pete, your question is also answered there, printout with several tissue layers under it.
About ordering nice weather, just send my the requested date and amount. I will check what I can do
I learned the technique from "Tim the inspector" on his Howard Pete build (
http://www.smallflyingartsforum.com/YaB ... 57915798/0).
It works just fine, I use it on all my tissue coloured planes. The biggest problem was always to add the letters accurate enough to look right at the end.
This time I used the cut out pattern to align the letters ont the wing. This way, the spacing and alignment will be right without to much effort since you have the cut out pattern anyway...
Still not perfect, but it looks much better than positioning the letters "freehand".
Most of the time I teared the nice letters while adding gluestick to them when already cut out. To avoid this, I now add the glue with the stick to the tissue before I cut out the letters. Right after taking the tissue from the pre shrinking frame, I add glue to the whole tissue and let it dry for at least 12 hours. (If you dont wait long enough, your letters will stick together and sometimes there is no chance to separate them again)
I cut all the lettering of one size in one cut. This way you are sure that all the letters are absolutely identical. Just add the wanted quantity of tissue layers under the printed pattern.
Adding the letters through the cut out pattern to its position is simple. I use a wet paper tissue on the top of the letter to add some moisture to soften the glue. This way, you can freely adjust the position and if right, fix it to this position with some water.
Best regards Roman
small addition... on the last plane, I did add the glue after the cutting. I took some glue with a wet brush from the stick and applied it to the back of the letters before adding them to the wing. It worked nicely and you dont have the problem with the tissue layers sticking together I found an older description with some more details if you are interested... It was originaly posted on HPA.
Pete, your question is also answered there, printout with several tissue layers under it. :)
About ordering nice weather, just send my the requested date and amount. I will check what I can do :D
I learned the technique from "Tim the inspector" on his Howard Pete build (http://www.smallflyingartsforum.com/YaBB.pl?num=1257915798/0).
It works just fine, I use it on all my tissue coloured planes. The biggest problem was always to add the letters accurate enough to look right at the end.
This time I used the cut out pattern to align the letters ont the wing. This way, the spacing and alignment will be right without to much effort since you have the cut out pattern anyway...
Still not perfect, but it looks much better than positioning the letters "freehand".
Most of the time I teared the nice letters while adding gluestick to them when already cut out. To avoid this, I now add the glue with the stick to the tissue before I cut out the letters. Right after taking the tissue from the pre shrinking frame, I add glue to the whole tissue and let it dry for at least 12 hours. (If you dont wait long enough, your letters will stick together and sometimes there is no chance to separate them again)
I cut all the lettering of one size in one cut. This way you are sure that all the letters are absolutely identical. Just add the wanted quantity of tissue layers under the printed pattern.
Adding the letters through the cut out pattern to its position is simple. I use a wet paper tissue on the top of the letter to add some moisture to soften the glue. This way, you can freely adjust the position and if right, fix it to this position with some water.
Best regards Roman
[i]small addition... on the last plane, I did add the glue after the cutting. I took some glue with a wet brush from the stick and applied it to the back of the letters before adding them to the wing. It worked nicely and you dont have the problem with the tissue layers sticking together [/i]