NAKED ARF KATANA

Man... That looks like a lot of work gettin all that coverin off.....

Whoa that does look like a lot of work. What does it look like with the covering off...quality wise that is.

I hope the nakedness of your Katana doesn't cause us to regress again with other web sites that are porn sensitive.

JW

dhooks said:

Whoa that does look like a lot of work. What does it look like with the covering off...quality wise that is.

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I would say the building quality is good, I've never seen this kind of covering though, looks like a fabric when you look at it from the backside, also alot of times when peeling it a clear layer would come off leaveing the pigment yellow, I took some acetone to the wing where some of the covering got left behind and it eat it and smeared it, alittle sand paper took the rest of the covering off. I rounded the edges of the fuse

Sounds like the same POS covering modeltech has used on the Magic Extra.

You finish that Yak yet Gator?

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not yet, but I did get the table thats its been covered up on cleaned off today...

Just got mine today. IT is the same crap as on the magic extra(had one) and yes it sticks like crazy when I tried to peal it off to glue the crap together.

Man I'm glad I sold the extra one I had that I was planning on stripping and recovering. But I ordered a kit from omp, looks like it would be easier to build one.

Well if the Kat covering is anything like the Magic Extra, I couldn't have done it. Like Gator said, the clear peels off and leaves the color. I soaked it with acetone and scrubbed it with sandpaper. It never really dried up so it was like wiping off a bunch of pencil eraser shavings. Then of course for my trouble, I total it three days later... I might consider patching one up that I covered with Ultracote, but never again on an ARF. When the covering goes, it's time to sell!

You da man Gator! You have more patience that I do...

winky -

take the "tribal" bit one step further and look at some of the custom motorcycle paint jobs that incorporate these shapes. best examples I've seen are at the orange county choppers' website (of american chopper fame). basically they take the tribal shapes or the super-stylized flame shapes and fill the whole part with it, im definitely going to go with that theme for my next covering job (my current one is TOP SECRET!)

-barrett

Cmon G wheres the finished product at.......

been too busy going to PRO BRO's and flying my nut sack off to "GET ER DONE"....comeing to a PRO BRO near you though...G

SO, you had plenty of time now :wink: Where is the dressed Katana ?

Note to self...don't take covering off Katana ARF unless you got lots of spare time.

3d-aholic said:

Note to self...don't take covering off Katana ARF unless you got lots of spare time.

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words to live by 3D....I have since finished building a 47" Yak, got it covered by not finished assembleing,,,the Katana is next