| Image Comments |
| David Duckett | 10-Nov-07 09:41 |
| As soon as it's daylight, and warm enough, I'll start covering these outside. There's too much area involved to use dope inside. The frames have all been prepped with two coats of 50/50 white glue/water (more or less) and sanded smooth. |
| John M Oshust | 10-Nov-07 10:43 |
| DD...Do I understand correctly. 50/50 glue and water to seal the wood then dope to mount dry tissue on the wood? |
| David Duckett | 10-Nov-07 11:25 |
| NO, NO, NO NEVER DRY. Dope to attach the WET silkspan. The glue mixture seals the wood quite well and gives the dope and ideal surface to adhere to. It's also stronger than dope. But it does not work as well in sealing the silkspan for painting because it does not actually glue the silkspan to the surface in some cases and a bubble might appear where it shouldn't, even on a flat surface. Another, and most important reason to attach the silkspan with dope is that both shrink as they dry so wet silkspan attached around the edges with dope and pulled tight with your fingers and then left to dry/shrink...stay tuned (;-) |
| John M Oshust | 10-Nov-07 12:09 |
| Guru of covering, wet silkpan...wet with water or dope? |
| David Duckett | 10-Nov-07 12:26 |
| With water. Dip the silkspan in water and lay it on a towel. Apply dope to surface and lay silkspan on it, add more dope and start pulling it taut. It will stay wet long enough to be manipulated and you can see the results right away. I always put on another coat of dope around the edges just to make sure and then let it all dry thoroughly before trimming the excess off. |
| SteveM | 10-Nov-07 12:50 |
| This is a good clarification of the description you made in http://balsamodels.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=744 |
| Xanadu | 10-Nov-07 16:09 |
| So your putting tissue over the sheting as well? |
| David Duckett | 10-Nov-07 16:23 |
| Yes, same as always. |
| moostang51 | 10-Nov-07 17:20 |
| Listen to your grandpa!!!! "A DD blast from the past". Will probably go the same route the next time I skin a bird. This is going to look great. |
| John M Oshust | 10-Nov-07 18:27 |
| Xanadu... off topic but what are they getting for a gallon of gasoline in Canada? |
