You’ve got yourself a beautifully looking Corsair. On my hangar 9 Corsair the monocoat film is multi laired. It has the dark blue on top and a silver underneath to allow it to naturally weather overtime.
Andrew this video is super valuable. I am going to try to paint trim on Monokote, it looks like it's a much better way to go than for trim than cutting out Monokote shapes and ironing on pieces that will only start to fall off after a season of flying. More paint, less Monokote = BRILLIANT.
the creeping into the corners can be controlled by first shooting the area with the base color, that way any creeping will be in the base color and the void will be filled stopping the top color from being able to seep. As you were not spraying a base color, alternately shoot a layer of clear first, same result.
Is alcohol the best way to prep for removing your oils and dust? Or is there a better way? Or any other different methods? Any info would be appreciated thank ya
Hi what color did you use on the grey and the white I’m getting a E-3 radar plane covered in silver monokote but I was thinking of painting it I think I’m the colors you have are proper
@@n1114v ok thanks man I was thinking of using the spray paint that I use to spray rc car bodies with. That stuff is so flexible it doesnt chip or peel off a rc car body and I race rc cars and the hard hits the bodies take they dont chip at all sp o was just wondering thanks.
Plain old black electrical tape works great for taping on curves. It can be pulled and stretched while laying it down. Leaves a nice clean edge after painting also.
Looks great. You would have gotten a brighter result with less coats if there were a white primer coat on first. Color is translucent to a certain degree, light goes through the paint and bounces back off the lower saturation color, so what you end up seeing is the grey de-saturating the orange. Maybe that;s the result you wanted though. Nice looking plane though.
you should know that you can prime foam with any oil base paint or even polyurethane. these oil base or paint thinner base coatings do not dissolve foam. it's the acetone etc. in spray paints that does the damage We stripped the paint off of an Arrow Corsair using packing tape (pulls the paint right off) and coated it with 'minwax wipe on poly' as a hard primer and painted it with oil based semi-gloss or you can use any spray paint on the poly primer
Andrew do you have any good pics of this plane i love the plane and i want to take a freewing corsair from motion and repaint it like your or close anyway. Thanks for any help you can give
You’ve got yourself a beautifully looking Corsair.
On my hangar 9 Corsair the monocoat film is multi laired.
It has the dark blue on top and a silver underneath to allow it to naturally weather overtime.
Andrew this video is super valuable. I am going to try to paint trim on Monokote, it looks like it's a much better way to go than for trim than cutting out Monokote shapes and ironing on pieces that will only start to fall off after a season of flying. More paint, less Monokote = BRILLIANT.
the creeping into the corners can be controlled by first shooting the area with the base color, that way any creeping will be in the base color and the void will be filled stopping the top color from being able to seep. As you were not spraying a base color, alternately shoot a layer of clear first, same result.
Was thinking a clear adhesion pre spray would seal the tape edges and prevent color bleed through.
I should have used a better quality tape. I think I was just using regular masking tape meant for latex
Slightly heat the area you are about to paint with a heat gun.. the paint will set faster and less paint runs
so do know where Olathe is? about 30 miles south west of Kansas city
I use steel wool so it doesn't thin the covering as much. Just a suggestion though....
Is alcohol the best way to prep for removing your oils and dust? Or is there a better way? Or any other different methods? Any info would be appreciated thank ya
Alcohol is one of the best products to use because of its intense power to clean and how quickly it evaporates
Hi what color did you use on the grey and the white I’m getting a E-3 radar plane covered in silver monokote but I was thinking of painting it I think I’m the colors you have are proper
It's all rustoleum! The gray I used was gloss smoke gray.
Wouldn't the paint chip from flex of the monokote flexing say on a wing where it's not on a hard surface
Rustoleum is a flexible paint so it should be fine
@@n1114v ok thanks man I was thinking of using the spray paint that I use to spray rc car bodies with. That stuff is so flexible it doesnt chip or peel off a rc car body and I race rc cars and the hard hits the bodies take they dont chip at all sp o was just wondering thanks.
@@youknoweverything7643 that should work perfectly!
Plain old black electrical tape works great for taping on curves. It can be pulled and stretched while laying it down. Leaves a nice clean edge after painting also.
Very true
Looks great. You would have gotten a brighter result with less coats if there were a white primer coat on first. Color is translucent to a certain degree, light goes through the paint and bounces back off the lower saturation color, so what you end up seeing is the grey de-saturating the orange. Maybe that;s the result you wanted though. Nice looking plane though.
you should know that you can prime foam with any oil base paint or even polyurethane.
these oil base or paint thinner base coatings do not dissolve foam.
it's the acetone etc. in spray paints that does the damage
We stripped the paint off of an Arrow Corsair using packing tape (pulls the paint right off) and coated it with 'minwax wipe on poly' as a hard primer and painted it with oil based semi-gloss or you can use any spray paint on the poly primer
I've painted for with good results
@@n1114v looks like you have, nice work
Much better than I can do
Who makes this corsair
This was a Top Flite kit
Andrew do you have any good pics of this plane i love the plane and i want to take a freewing corsair from motion and repaint it like your or close anyway. Thanks for any help you can give
Other than the videos i have, you can look this plane up on google and see the pics that i used for a reference. Search for Navy Olathe Corsair.
Andrew Gideon ok. Can you tell me what gray paint that is. That is a beautiful bird.
@@stevecoggins2591 monokote!
Andrew Gideon gotcha. Thanks man.
You should use Tri. Tape to prevent seeping into the tape. It looks good though. It’s all in the detail
Hi Andrew.. did you use any primer or adhesion promoter on the Monokote before painting? Thanks
No i did not, most of the paints in cans are a paint and primer in one. As long as the covering is roughed up it should stick fine
You should have used a hair dryer in between coats..... it sets up the paint pretty well...still looks good.....👍
play with that cat man!!
sick corsair!
It may help if you do not have a radio playing the background.
It's the tv.... I do it on purpose
What plane is this?
Top Flite Giant Corsair
Any non-precision sandpaper may have course imperfections that would ruin your paint job.
if you use a self etching primer sanding isn't as important thanks for the video going to be doing this again my self.
Scotch bright is good
Like to see it fly
Look on my channel for flight video. Sold it 3 years ago
nice plane dont care for the orange but plane is nice
Not a big fan either but scale is scale
I was under the impression that you had to prime yellow with a white coat under it.
It all depends on the type of paint your using!
Try using tin foil instead of paper, you won't go back to using paper again. That tip is from Walt Prey. RIP.