canopies and foil

so how do you use foil to mask a canopy?

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Apply foil Burnish down Get a nice, new, sharp #11 x-Acto blade and trim around the glass. Get a toothpick and carefully remove the foil from the areas you want to paint. Reburnish corners if needed.

Alternately, for natural metal aircraft, do the same, but remove the glass part.

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EGMcCann

If you burnish just the egdes, removing BMF will be easier and a lot less residue to clean up, if any.

-- Chuck Ryan snipped-for-privacy@REMOVEearthlink.net Springfield OH

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CSRZ28

that seems to need a pretty steady hand.

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e

Yeah, I concur. Use finger pressure for the glass area and lightly burnish the edges. For cutting I use an X-acto swivel knife (very tiny blade will swivel on curves) and your favorite magnifying device. After you paint, use a sharp knife to pull up one edge. If you leave them on for a year like I do (just call me speedy!) you can clean up the residue with naptha/benzine/lighter fluid. hth

The Keeper (of too much crap)

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Keeper

My memmory is little fuzzy this time of the day - but I'm almost sure there was an article on this in a recent FineScale Modeler Magazine. Their website lists contents of the old issues - maybe you can find it there.

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Basically, you use Bare Metal Foil instead of masking tape. COver the entire canopy, score it along the edges, peel unwanted parts, burnish, paint and peel off. I haven't done this myself for a while...

Peteski

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Peter W.

I *just* posted a message telling the world about my new web page about canop masking with Cheap Chocolate Foil:

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Rob

My models:

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Me 163B site:
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Rob de Bie

bookmarked. thanks

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e

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