Ripped Checkers RC Heli Canopy
August 18, 2008
I just finished painting another canopy for my 450's. I planned for so much more than what resulted, but after having problems with paint peeling up I finished it up with minimal masking and had to leave it fairly simple looking. I think one of my primer coats was laid on too thick.
Work-in-progress:
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Step-by-step:
- Masked off the jagged edges of the checkered flag.
- Masked off the checkers.
- Laid on a silver / black blend.
- Peeled off the checkers, and shot a drop shadow around the edges of the flag.
- I used some liquid mask to mask off my jagged flag. Goes on opaque, dries translucent.
- Removed the vinyl masking. Now I see some of the white paint peeling up.
- Shoot the fluorescent yellow to fluorescent orange fade.
- Shoot a simple black windscreen, and some fluorescent red (turned out looking orange, because I did not want to mask it off and lay down some white for a background.)