Top Flite TOPA0140 - Manual (Page 51)

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4. Take the covering off the fuse and cut along
the lines you marked. Wipe away leftover ink with
a tissue dampened with alcohol. There’s your
invasion stripe!
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5. Iron your invasion stripe in place. Make the
rest of the invasion stripes the same way. Don’t
forget to overlap your invasion stripes by
approximately 1/8" [3mm] and put the dark ones
over the light ones.
COVERING SEQUENCE
FUSELAGE
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1. Tail junction strips as described previously
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2. Stab tops, then bottoms
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3. Fin right, then left side
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4. Fuse bottom aft, then front
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5. Fuse sides
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6. Turtle deck (may be done in one or
two pieces)
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7. Front deck (aft of cowl)
WING
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1. Hidden areas and corners such the TE in
the flap and aileron area
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2. Wing fairing where wing blends to the fuse
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3. Bottom of one, then the other half of the
wing
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4. Top of one, then the other half of the wing
CONTROL SURFACES AND DETAILS
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1. Ends, bottoms, then tops of elevators and
ailerons
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2. Ends, then bottom of flaps
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3. One, then the other side of the rudder
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4. Aileron servo hatches
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5. Wheel well covers
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6. Radiators
PAINTING
At this stage all of your plastic pieces should have
the seams filled with Bondo or putty. If you haven’t
already done so, wet-sand the plastic parts with
400-grit wet-or-dry sandpaper so the paint will
adhere. Spray all the molded plastic parts (except
for the canopy) and scale accessories with at least
one coat of primer. We used Top Flite LustreKote
on all the ABS plastic that needed to be painted.
Wet-sand the plastic pieces between coats with
400-grit sandpaper. Use Great Planes 1/8" [3.2mm]
EZ-Mask Flexible Masking Tape (GPMR1000) for
masking sharp lines, Kyosho Masking Cover Sheet
(KYOR1040) for masking large areas. A Top Flite
Tack Cloth (TOPR2185) is useful to remove dust
just before you paint. LustreKote paint gives a
MonoKote matching finish. For the wing fillets, we
suggest first covering the fuselage with MonoKote,
then painting the fillets to match the MonoKote. You
can paint over MonoKote film with LustreKote.
Note: We brush painted the exhaust stacks on the
cowl with plastic model paint. The cowl was clear
coated with LustreKote flat clear so this fuelproofed
the exhaust stacks.
For painting the pilots we recommend acrylic water
base paints such as the types found in craft stores.
Acrylic paint looks great on your pilot because it is
not glossy and best of all, it cleans up with water.
Note: This section does not apply to the canopy.
See the Canopy section on page 53.
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