Subject: Re: 1st - Engine Covers
From: "Steve Bamford" <[email-masked]>
To: "Daniel Butcher" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:14:50 -0800

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Daniel Butcher 
  To: Steve Bamford 
  Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:24 PM
  Subject: Fw: 1st - Engine Covers

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Daniel Butcher 
  To: Steve Bamford 
  Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 5:05 PM
  Subject: 1st - Engine Covers

  Due to popular demand on the Discussion forum after my Tornado article - here it is. A guide on how to create the Engine covers.

  You will need - A tissue, some PVA glue, water, cup/beaker, scissors, tin/kitchen foil and an old brush.

  Begin by taking the tin foil, and wrapping it around the piece you want to cover - in this case the burner can from the Revell 1/48 F-15E Strike Eagle. 
  Carefully cut round the tin foil to the correct depth along the burner can.

  Then mix up some water with the PVA glue (to about the consistency of milk) into the container, and apply to the tissue. Then place the tissue onto the foil cover, and cut around the edges, using the glue to cover the edges and sides (and not forgetting to leave a little extra to tuck back inside the edge of the cover to give it a complete covering).

  Leave the covers to dry for afew hours, and then coat using your normal modelling paints. When that's dry, use other colours to drybrush the covers and highlight the detail, and adding a realistic appearance to the them.

  To create the other Covers for the intakes - the same process was used, cutting the foil to shape and covering it in wet tissue. The tags were made using the method here in the tool n' tips section of this site, and placed through a small pinhle made into the exhaust cover, or in the case of the intake cover - just stuck on using glue.

  The covers are a nice little touch which really finish off models of static aircraft on the flightline.