Aluminum foil covering

stinger i used to have one of these planes made out of coke cans! my brother in law got me one for xmas...it was pretty cool...just all hung togther with bends, folds, and strategic lips...it was amazing...it got cruched in my last home improvement project and I just threw it away last month...

I am using the microscale adhesive - having a few problems with it. Just haven't tried thinning it with alcohol yet, it's going on okay but has been leaving brush marks. Someone suggested a similar type of glue that artists use for goldleafing that has been working out great (also $5.50 per pint).

Things I've discovered during this process:
1. Don't do petite scribes - the cooking alum. is a bit thick and has very little "stretch" to it.
2. Don't fully assemble the kit except where needed, leave small strips open for the gluing surfaces (wing fillets et such), once glued then cover those areas
3. use panel lines as your overlap joints.
4. overlaps don't need to be much (1/16th or less)
5. Don't use sharp items to bunish - foil rips really easily
6. smaller is better

Here is the ultimate in aluminum coverings.
http://modelflight.com/can-du.html
Don't laugh, look at the pictures and if anyone has ever doen this I would like to hear from you.

Bare meatal foil is awesome! I've never seen anything that works as well.

There is a section in the how-to or tips section on this website and it explains the process and shows him covering a P-38 and it looks awesome...its at:
http://www.finescale.com/fsm/pdf/foiledlightning.pdf

There is also a microscale product for glueing AL foil to stuff. Called something like Foil Adhesive. I have used this many times to adhere regular old aluminum foil to models. Works great with gold foil as well for those pesky US rockets.

The product you are looking for is called Bare-Metal foil. You can get it in several different 'shades' of chrome as well as gold and black. It comes in a sheet approximately 6" X 11". You just cut off a piece, peel it from the backing paper, and then burnish it on to your model. It is very thin and if you're carefull you can burnish it over curves and everything. I just started using it recently myself and it is excellent stuff.

Ray