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#1 ·
Flyboz43 has really inspired me, with his AWESOME airbrush work, to try new techniques in covering.
I won the bid on a GATOR basketball Jersey on ebay, and it had this cool gator skin print on it. I thought,"man I bet that could be done on a profile".
So , I took a peice of posterboard , cut it down to 15X24 and started drawing. 2hrs later, I had that posterboard covered with gator scales. 2 days later I had cut out all these holes with and xacto knife. All total about 8hrs into makeing this stencil. I cut a peice of covering, dark yellow ultracoat the same size as the stencil, then took a can of orange lustercoat and sprayed away. I was really surprised at how well it looked when I took off the stencil. Looked like I was tanning gator hide.
I had orginally thought about covering the plane, then painting it with the stencil, but thought the stencil might get soft on me, so I decided to paint 15X24 sections at a time.
Showed this to some of the guys in memphis this past weekend. I had some concerns that the covering after it got stretched would crack or make the paint flake off, but to this point it the only thing I've noticed is, it smel different when I stick the heat-gun to it
Heres some picks of my progress so far. This is a Chinn Yak
 

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#5 ·
Gator, you just ain't happy unless you kick the bar completely out of reach for the rest of us.

Sick lookin' Dood. You done good.
 
#14 ·
planeplanter said:
SHAWEET Dude! Looks awesome! Didja seal it with anything??
plan'n on sealing it with clear lusterkote.

thanks for all the comments guys. So far it has turned out like I hoped it would
 
#15 ·
Dave763 said:
Very nice, What paint did you use? Will it be clear coated? I've been thinking of airbrushing one of my planes.

Dave
the orange is lusterkote and the blue is what ever ultracoat paint is called. Its sprayed right outta the can onto the stencil
 
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Dave763 said:
Did u scuff up the covering to get the paint to stick? What paint did you use for the color?
Hope you don't mind all my questions, I have a airbrush but I never tried painting ultracote.

Dave
no I didnt scuff up the covering. This was not done with and AB, its sprayed directly outta the can onto the stencil and covering. I painted the blue , the day I did the covering and hrs later it was still tacky to the touch, infact, next day, its still a little tacky
 
#23 ·
PaulSwany said:
Were you able to iron it on normally?
yeah for the most part. I used the trim iron quit abit. I was trying to tack the covering down on the covering where there was no paint, then wher the two colors meet at the spar, I'd have it tacked as tightly as I could get it, then just lightly touch the iron straight down on the covering and not to slide it back and forth. it seems the blue stays tacky for a long time and might smear if I tried to slide it
 
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3d-aholic said:
Sheesh..that looks awesome...

So you used the supposed same color Ultracote paint that is suppose to match???
i used a shade darker on the ultracoat paint, the paint is "midnight blue, the covering is like a royal blue
 
#26 ·
I give up. I'll just start covering my planes in saran wrap. Looking at my covering jobs after seeing this fills me with despair.... :cry:

Damn, that's sweet Gator!
 
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