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How to finish your planewith aluminum foilStory and photos by Bucky SheftallFOILED LIGHTNINGLike other incurable perfectionists in our hobby, I was discouragedby modeling natural-metal finishes. Metallic paints never seemedconvincing on anything much larger than a 1/48 scale landinggear a year ago, I saw pictures of an aluminum-foil covered B-58 Hustler, and I was enthralled. I just had to try aluminum are two ways to apply an aluminum foil finish. The easiermethod is to use a commercial adhesive foil product, such as Bare-Metal Foil (see sidebar on page 29). The more difficult way is to usehousehold aluminum foil and apply adhesive yourself. This not onlytakes more time, but it creates more problems: applying the rightamount of glue, keeping dust and dirt out of the glue,and so either case, the application of foil is achallenging task, but the effect is worththe use household aluminum foiland apply Microscale s MicroMetal Foil Adhesive with abrush.
1/48 Scale Getting around it.The harsh real-ity of foiling is that you are trying to apply a two-dimensional material to a three-dimensional object.
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