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RChristopher: One of the best canopy I ever saw

[growmaster4]

Originally Posted by rz500

Here's what I did in about 30 mins with some tamyia paint and some drywall fibre tape, you can see I rushed it but I wanted to see what it would turn out like. what could you call it " off shore carbon fibre " or aome sort of reptile...?? Its my first try.
Cheers
RZ

i do my cf the same way but spray some over reduced black over the top of that,makes it look way betterhttps://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=93049

[rz500]

Originally Posted by growmaster4

i do my cf the same way but spray some over reduced black over the top of that,makes it look way betterhttps://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=93049

Ok thats cool .....! very nice job. so thats really fibre tape you are using ??

[growmaster4]

Originally Posted by rz500

Ok thats cool .....! very nice job. so thats really fibre tape you are using ??

i am pretty sure thats what it is.its a white roll of tape for doing drywall

[Kerber0s]

Just stumbled across this thread today because of the post in the main forum about visibility during overcast/dusk. Figured I would check out how a canopy could be painted as I have a plain white canopy coming in for my heli in a few days. HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS ARE GOOD!!!!! Even those of you that say "I'm not worthy" or something along the lines of "here is my feeble attempt". I am completely in awe of your talents and could only hope to produce something half as good. AMAZING!!!!!!!!

-Kerb

[imq707s]

This was my first attempt.....kind of rushed through it, but it turned out decent. My next one will get more attention to detail than this one did. I just needed something fast....something I could see, something besides the dark blue canopy that came with my CX. When it's 100' up in the air, I can't even tell that I layed the clear on too thick causing some of the colors to bleed.

[wyoheli]

My first heli a heli-max kinetic 50. Here is the canopy i just painted with about $30.00 dollars in paint and suppiles from walmart and napa..Comments please.

[GootyS]

Here is my Avro Canopy :-)

[helipainter]

Heres my latest kick. Been painting a few g-jive models and carried it over to the canopies for the same mechanics i'm sliding in the scale ships.










House of Kolor & Dupont Chroma Clear

[ddracer]

Finished my 1st one. But now i have put the Hi-flow pipe on my bird it doesn't fit. So this is going to go on my Rappy 30 and I have got hold of the 60 canopy so I will be painting again.

[heliwill]

Auto Air with PPG clear

[buckers]

Helipainter.....

How the hell did you get that drop shadow effect on the Pantera heli (silver one)?
I appreciate that the shadow effect will raise the solid colour, but there seems to be hints of white along the edge as well, or is it me seeing something that's not there ?
The whole thing looks about 1/8" high. Amazing....

I see it's the same outline as the other heli. Did you use the same template, if you used one at all?

Talk me thu' it........

Totally confused now

[helipainter]

That affect is from the laers and how i have them stacked that creates that. Lots of clear is like putting a lens on it and making it pop. It was done with house of kolor, an accuspray cup gun and a airbrush.

Yes, made a template of them all, use cut vinyl to mask them off with


Thanks

[helipainter]

I just came across the pic, it really shows what your talking about.

[buckers]

Amazing.

Did you put the white edging on as well?

[helipainter]

no white at all, silver, blue and clear w/ black airbrush

[buckers]

Originally Posted by helipainter

no white at all, silver, blue and clear w/ black airbrush

So what is causing this white/silver line then ?

Is it a light reflection?

[helipainter]

It is how it is layered. It is the edge from the silver paint and the way it comes off the masking then the way it is preserved in clear without getting sanded off. That is what your seeing, kinda through a microscope (nice camera lens) It isn't that pronounced to teh naked eye, but it does make it flash and catch your eye. When it was first un masked, you could have taken a tack cloth and wiped it off, but i like keeping it there. US-35 intercoat is nice for preserving things like this, then hammered with clear, sanded then hammered with 3 more coats, sanded then another 3. I used a gallon of clear on 3x 600 size fuses and a handfull of canopies. Half of that is probably in my wet sanding bucket in the form of 600 grit dust

The paint is layered opposite of the way you think it would be as well.

[buckers]

Originally Posted by helipainter

The paint is layered opposite of the way you think it would be as well.

So it's blue down first, then mask, then silver, then dark shadow, then unmask, leaving the edge build-up (under the silver.)

Yet it gives the appearance of the silver being waaaaaay above the blue.

So cool. Thanks for sharing your knowledge

[Techspy]

My first real attempt. I may try one with more effects and depth next time.