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- Advanced Covering Techniques with Solite
- Great Ezone howto showing how to make patterns and designs and apply them to your model.
- RCMicroFlight.com Covering with lightweight Mylar
- Five-micrometer Mylar film is the best covering for many RC micro aircraft. Here’s how to apply it to a balsa frame airplane. (Courtesy of the Wayback Machine)
- Covering and Painting Weights
- A table and calculator for finding covering weights per area.
- E Zone: Covering foam with Silkspan or fiberglass, and Minwax Polycrylic
- Minwax Polycrylic may be a safer, viable substitute for epoxy resin when fiberglassing raw polystyrene foam.
- RC Groups - Doculam Discoveries!
- Document laminating film makes a hard, strong covering material.
- RCU Magazine How-To - How to Covering
- Some pretty good instructions here.
- Applying Trim Designs with Heat Shrink Plastic Film
- Applying trim designs to heat shrink plastic film covering on RC airplanes.
- Covering
- Detailed procedure for a perfect covering on wings with heatshrink film.
- Flite Metal..."For The Look Of The Real Thing"
- A very realistic metal-look for your next scale model.
- pro-mark graphics
- Pro-mark supplies lots of top-end modelers with graphics.
- Covering with japanese tissue
- How to work with japanese tissue to get a wrinkle-free covering.
- Model Research Labs
- Good info on covering with mylar and polyspan, plus some other building tips
- Covering Weights (Sorted by Weight)
- Easy comparison of covering material weights.
- How to apply cut vinyl graphics to your model
- An article covering some of the basic techniques in preparation and application of vinyl graphics to your model airplane or boat.
- Monokote instructions
- Good instructions for covering with Monokote
- Covering Foam with Paper - Foamflyer
- Paper covering can add a lot of rigidity and strength to models.
- How to Silk a Model Aircraft Wing
- Silk is an unusual covering, but can make for a spectacular model. Learn how to cover with silk and silk dyeing.
- Airfield Models - Model Aircraft Covering and Finishing Materials
- Covering and finishing materials for model airplanes.
- Covering Models with Tissue and Mylar
- Interesting technique: covering with tissue over mylar.