Painting My Multiplex Twinstar II

The entire process that I followed painting my multiplex twinstar II with a higher visibility paint scheme. Flat-white all around wasn't working for me.

Steps involved were:
1) Clean the plane with alcohol to remove any chemicals from the moulding process when it was created
2) Sand down the entire body of the plane (using 300 grid sandpaper) to provide a smooth surface
3) Fill in the larger gashes with lightweight spackle
4) Tape off the important bits I didn't want to get any polycrylic in (pushrod holders, cockpit, engines, control surface joints)
5) Lay down a base-layer of polycrylic to paint over
6) Lightly sand the base-layer in preparation of painting
7) Mask off the areas that I didn't want painted black
8) Paint it black
9) Remove black-masking and apply masking for red areas
10) Paint the town red
11) Remove masking tape from red areas, and patch up any spots that the masking tape tore off of the black paint (because I didn't wait long enough to let it dry)
12) Fix up any edges that weren't sprayed neatly with white paint, and fix the error I had on the one wing by hand with red paint
13) Cover entire thing with final protective layer of polycrylic
14) Happiness

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• twinstarII
• painting
• rc
• remotecontrol
• howto
• fastmotion
• timelapse
• multiplex

[wdds1997nce]

What are you doing with the brush in 3:13 ?

[Astruyk]

@wdds1997nce I'm fixing a spot where I masked the wing incorrectly, so there was a big stripe of unpainted wing that should have been red. Oops.

[jopio333]

what is the name of the blue tape? It doenst look very sticky to me.

[Astruyk]

@jopio333 Its M3 Blue Masking tape, I'm not sure exactly which variety, but I picked it up at Home Depot.

[theleetbeagle]

Did you happen to do an AUW before and after the paint? If so, how much did the paint add to the AUW? Thanks.

[Astruyk]

@theleetbeagle I never measured the AUW before or after, sorry.

[jamesfukndee]

what polycrylic did u use ?

[BigDuke6ixx]

the black bits are going to heat up big time.

[syncdram2012]

WOW your quick, you painted your hole plane in 4 minutes!....LOL....:)

[EXTREMERFLUGSTOFF]

super ! ber sehr kompliziert :-)