Monz

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Hi all, with less than a month to go to the 2024 Power Scale Nationals, 13 - 15 September at our National Centre, Buckminster, this is a friendly reminder to get your entries in! The fantastic Flyer's Cafe will be open for breakfast and lunch through the weekend with Gillian serving up some lovely grub with hot and cold drinks also available. Saturday evening in the Goldsmith Hangar will see the 'Great British Aviation' quiz and social BBQ taking place. This will be a nominal £5 ticket to help cover the food costs. Please do send me any dietary requirements beforehand so we can cater for everyone. Saturday and Sunday early evening, depending on the weather, will see the Scale Free Flight brigade take to the field for the Eddy Riding Trophy. If you're not competing you're still welcome to come fly some free flight. Contact Mike Smith [email protected] for more details. As always, camping is available, with showers, flushing loos, black and grey waste disposal, drinking water and a washup area. Please contact Manny Williamson [email protected] to book. So, to enter what is shaping up to be a brilliant weekend of Scale competition flying please click this link to go directly to the entry form https://scale.bmfa.org/bmfa-scale-rc-nationals-2024 or alternatively, you can email me at [email protected] Please note entries will close 8pm Wednesday 11 September 2024. For those that have already entered, as well as all new entrants, please could you email me the schedule of manoeuvres you will be flying so that I can get your flight judging sheets printed - [email protected] Best wishes, Monz Lyons - BMFA Power Nationals Coordinator

Posted by Erfolg on 13/12/2019 18:39:11: I am getting the impression that Monz is creating his Decals from scratch. That is coating onto a surface such as a gummed paper with WBV. Then printing or hand painting onto this substrate. Finally over spraying the art work. Such work is beyond both my abilities and patience. I just buy in Decal paper onto which I print. My over spraying the art work is to both protect it and to increase the total thickness. My methods are about deskilling the process. Which I have to do. Not sure how you come to that conclusion? All I do is buy in laser decal paper onto which I print....

Decals need a good gloss coat to adhere properly so on foam models a coat or two of gloss WBV will give a nice surface to work on. Once the decals are on then another coat of gloss varnish will seal them in and also get rid of the 'silvering' (edges of the decal). Then a coat of semi or matt varnish for whatever finish you're going for. A couple coats of thinned varnish on large models adds hardly any noticeable weight. Here are the decals I made for my two Impalas, one 1/4 and the other 1/10 - Both sealed after with a gloss and the edges of the decal disappear completely. Again, the white is hand painted over a grey text decal.

Posted by Harrier Mate on 12/12/2019 21:40:46: Monz, amazing scheme. And so much cheaper than Arizona Models fabric (about £150 for just the wings). Could you tell me more about that technique. You have clearly covered the model in a base layer first.... plain tissue or fabric? And then applied the printed lozenge to tissue??? The model is covered in jap tissue with a coat of dope to seal it. I built a test frame to see how the decal would react to it. On the test frame I had different sections with different treatments - non shrinking dope, banana oil, shrinking dope, matt, semi gloss and gloss varnish. In the end it was three coats of very thinned Tamiya gloss varnish over one coat of shrinking dope that worked the best. I drew up the lozenge pattern in Photoshop to match the lozenge on the reference aircraft, along with the other decals like stencils, markings etc and scaled it to match the three view I built from. Where there were white stencils I did a light grey decal and then hand painted over that with white enamel. The white rib tapes are all 2mm wide strips of white decal paper applied individually. That and the hand painted stencils were an exercise in patience! The domestic laser MFP's are a much better investment over any domestic inkjet.

Posted by Don Fry on 12/12/2019 20:27:41: How big is that bit of flying art? 1/10th scale, rubber powered.

I've used Laser water transfer decal paper run through my HP home laser printer. Everything on my DVII except the pink paint was laser printed decals over the tissue. I drew everything up in Photoshop. I used a combination of clear and white paper. The clear gives some transparency while the white is opaque, though does take some planning as domestic printers don't print white! The advantage of laser printed decals is you don't have to seal them with anything - Print, dunk, apply.