From: "oldtalorcraft" <oldtalorcraft@...>
Date: Friday, May 7, 2004 4:21 PM
Subject: cover or paint fuse and tail
Date: Friday, May 7, 2004 4:21 PM
Subject: cover or paint fuse and tail
I just finished my fourth Bug. I had been using just water based
poly mixed with food color, but I found that mixing the food color
with 99% isopropyl alcohol and painting it on first and then adding
the poly after works much better.You can add many cotes of
alcohol/food color to get the color as dark as you want and add
almost no weight.Then add a couple of thin poly cotes.The only bad
thing about this method is no color will be absorbed any where the
wood has been soaked with CA. My next bug fuse and tail will be
coverd. Its more work but its hard to make paint or die look as good
as covering without adding alot of weight.